I have a lot to post, but for the moment, we’ll just discuss Trump’s new move to fix the world.
The Mexican drug cartels are a geopolitical threat and have been for a long time. Obama and Holder’s plan to give them tons of guns with Fast and Furious did not seem to help the situation. At least not the situation of everyone else. It probably helped the Cartels a lot though.
So it looks like Trump managed to take a serious bite out of the cartels while everyone is looking at Iran.
The Bureau has a good write up here.
A dawn raid in the Jalisco highlands has eliminated the most wanted narco-terrorist in the Western Hemisphere. President Sheinbaum: “We must remain informed and calm.”
JALISCO — Mexican Special Forces killed Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes — “El Mencho” — during a raid in Tapalpa, Jalisco Sunday morning. He was wounded in the firefight and died while being airlifted to Mexico City, the Defense Ministry confirmed, decapitating what had become the most violent criminal organization in the Americas, and a major source of the fentanyl flooding North America.
President Claudia Sheinbaum posted to X at 4:22 PM, pledging the full weight of the Mexican state behind her response to the spreading violence. Acknowledging “various blockades and other reactions” triggered by the operation, she insisted there was “absolute coordination with the governments of all states” and that across “the vast majority of the national territory, activities are proceeding with complete normality.”
That normality was hard to find on the ground. Violence rippled across southwestern Mexico as criminal groups erected flaming roadblocks in Jalisco, Michoacán, and Guanajuato, triggering shootouts with security forces and reported explosions, according to Canada’s official travel advisory for Mexico.
In Puerto Vallarta, authorities issued a shelter-in-place order and suspended all taxi and rideshare services, while travel disruptions mounted — including flight delays and cancellations.
So it looks like Trump managed to take a serious bite out of the cartels while everyone is looking at Iran.
Trump is an expert on distracting people with one hand while doing something with the other hand. In this case he is moving against the ground route for drugs and illegals into the US. Once the worlds attention is fixed on Mexico he will probably strike in Iran or Columbia, my guess is Iran.
PT has abour 3 more years to get things moving before he is term limited out of office and we are dependent on Jack Vance or Marco Rubio to protect what is left of civilization for (hopefully) 8 years. He may need to speed up his actions, the new attempted assassination is just one more sign that things are building to a real big explosion. I pray that he will get things worked out before he is term limited out of office, I say this because so far only 1 of the assassination attempts showed enough expertise to cause me to worry about him being removed early. But the left will keep trying and they only have to get lucky once.
https://travel.gc.ca/destinations/mexico
Criminals kidnap the victim from the street or a taxi and force the person to withdraw funds from an ATM.
I would say that “criminals” includes “police.”
i assume that “assists Mexico” means “coerces Mexico to”
https://mx.usembassy.gov/security-alert-update-3-ongoing-security-operations-u-s-mission-mexico-february-22-2026/
staff to shelter in place and work remotely on Monday, February 23, and U.S. citizens should do the same.
shelter in place and work remotely on Monday, February 23, and U.S. citizens should do the same.
https://mx.usembassy.gov/security-alert-update-3-ongoing-security-operations-u-s-mission-mexico-february-22-2026/
This is a fine time to kearn the names of Mexican states
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/mexico
Your travel insurance could be invalidated if you travel against advice from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65fabfdfaa9b76001dfbdb8a/FCDO_TA_065_-_Mexico_Travel_Advice_Ed5_WEB.jpg
the map with no-go zones
Updated: 23 February 2026