{"id":297444,"date":"2026-02-23T02:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T02:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/297444\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T02:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T02:23:10","slug":"us-canada-issue-travel-warnings-for-mexico-after-drug-kingpin-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/297444\/","title":{"rendered":"US, Canada issue travel warnings for Mexico after drug kingpin killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFP<\/p>\n<p>22 Feb, 2026 11:13 PM2 mins to read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Passengers remain stranded at Guadalajara International Airport following flight suspensions and lack of transport in Tlajomulco, Jalisco State, Mexico. Photo \/ Ulises Ruiz, AFP<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">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<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cDue to ongoing, widespread security operations and related road blockages and criminal activity in many areas of Mexico, US citizens should shelter<br \/>\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<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cRoadblocks have impacted airline operations, with some domestic and international flights canceled in both Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">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<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">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&hellip;\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":["post-297444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-american","tag-amid","tag-boss","tag-canada","tag-cancellations","tag-cartel","tag-citizens","tag-department","tag-drug","tag-flight","tag-for","tag-headlines","tag-issue","tag-killed","tag-killing","tag-kingpin","tag-mexican","tag-mexico","tag-news","tag-place","tag-roadblocks","tag-shelter","tag-soldiers","tag-state","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-travel","tag-urged","tag-us","tag-violence","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}]}}