Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\nPassengers remain stranded at Guadalajara International Airport following flight suspensions and lack of transport in Tlajomulco, Jalisco State, Mexico. Photo \/ Ulises Ruiz, AFP<\/p>\n
The US State Department has urged American citizens in Mexico to shelter in place amid violence, roadblocks and flight cancellations after Mexican soldiers killed a top cartel boss.<\/p>\n
\n \u201cDue to ongoing, widespread security operations and related road blockages and criminal activity in many areas of Mexico, US citizens should shelter
\n in place until further notice,\u201d said a statement from the department\u2019s Consular Affairs section on social media platform X.\n <\/p>\n
\u201cRoadblocks have impacted airline operations, with some domestic and international flights canceled in both Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
Nemesio Oseguera, the 59-year-old leader of the violent Jalisco New Generation Cartel, was wounded in a clash with soldiers in the town of Tapalpa and died while being flown to Mexico City, the army said in a statement. He had a US$15 million ($25m) bounty on his head.<\/p>\n
Canada said it was monitoring the situation closely and advised Canadians in Mexico to \u201ckeep a low profile and follow advice of local authorities\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 22 Feb, 2026 11:13 PM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,8239,534,4282,275,3292,34599,22285,26034,3401,70,2082,42,76,3375,11156,156314,34598,6820,43,6744,163882,9434,96734,13672,40,38,41,39,274,11226,3040,13118,33210],"class_list":{"0":"post-297444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-amid","11":"tag-boss","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-cancellations","14":"tag-cartel","15":"tag-citizens","16":"tag-department","17":"tag-drug","18":"tag-flight","19":"tag-for","20":"tag-headlines","21":"tag-issue","22":"tag-killed","23":"tag-killing","24":"tag-kingpin","25":"tag-mexican","26":"tag-mexico","27":"tag-news","28":"tag-place","29":"tag-roadblocks","30":"tag-shelter","31":"tag-soldiers","32":"tag-state","33":"tag-top-news","34":"tag-top-stories","35":"tag-topnews","36":"tag-topstories","37":"tag-travel","38":"tag-urged","39":"tag-us","40":"tag-violence","41":"tag-warnings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}