In a golden coffin, accompanied by regional Mexican music and under an impressive military and police operation, , He was buried this Monday in a cemetery in the municipality of Zapopanin the metropolitan area of Guadalajara. The scene, closer to a demonstration of power than a discreet funeral, closed one of the most recent violent episodes linked to drug trafficking in Mexico.
The hearse arrived at noon at the La Paz Campus, a cemetery located to the west of the city, heavily guarded by members of the Mexican Army, the National Guard and state and municipal police. The gold-colored coffin was received by a regional music band that played songs such as The Happy Boy before the body was transferred to the local chapel.
The procession was preceded by several cranes transporting dozens of large floral arrangements, some of which could only be entered through special access due to their dimensions. The magnitude of the deployment showed the level of alert of the authorities in the face of any possible
Flowers, symbols and veiled messages
Since Sunday night, when the body arrived at the funeral home under strong escort, floral arrangements began to accumulate, most without a return address. Among them stood out crowns with white roses and others with red roses forming the figure of a rooster, in allusion to the nickname by which he was also known. Oseguera Cervantes: The Lord of the Roosters.
One of the arrangements drew special attention for having the initials visible. Jalisco New Generation Cartelan explicit example of the symbolic control that the group maintains even after the death of its leader.
Tension in Guadalajara one hundred days before the World Cup
Although no authority has officially confirmed the identity of the remains, the intense military mobilization around the funeral has generated concern among the population of Guadalajara, a city that will also be one of the headquarters of the World Cup that will be held in just one hundred days.
The state of Jalisco is still recovering from the wave of violence recorded after the military operation that ended the life of The Mencho. Governor Pablo Lemuns then decreed the “Code Red” for two days, after there were road blockades, business fires, flight cancellations and coordinated attacks against security forces.
The operation against Oseguera Cervantes, carried out in Tapalpa, left a balance of at least 25 members of the National Guard and more than 30 members of the CJNG dead in clashes, the majority in Jalisco territory. It was one of the hardest blows to organized crime in years, but also one of the most violent repercussions.
EThe burial of El Mencho puts an end to the life of the most wanted boss by Mexico and the United States, but not to the history of violence that it leaves behind. The silence of the cemetery contrasts with the question that remains open in Jalisco and throughout the country: if with his death an era ends… or if another even more uncertain one just begins.
