Puerto Vallarta Erupts… Developing

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Shelter in Place: Edmontonians are stranded in Puerto Vallarta after cartel violence erupted following reports that Mexican forces killed alleged cartel leader El Mencho.

Guadalajara Airport chaos.

@TheAffairs51513 – Footage Shows CJNG Cartel Gunmen Setting Truck and Trailer Ablaze on Puerto Vallarta Highway.

More chaos here on the account of @LaPaginaNegraMX·

Spreading violence: … vehicles and businesses being set on fire in Mexico’s major tourist centers Cancún, Playa del Carmen, Tulum, and Cozumel.

NYT: Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” was the head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and widely regarded as one of the country’s most violent criminal figures.

I just learned I have family members there at the moment, so pretty concerned.

57 Replies to “Puerto Vallarta Erupts… Developing”

  1. The cartel shouldn’t have kidnapped and killed Nancy Guthrie …
    Pssst … Biden’s not President anymore, and that drunk lady isn’t border czar anymore.

    1. Yep … that sounds about right. And my instincts also suggest that closing our borders has put a Uuuge dent in the Cartel cash flow … and they’re looking for new avenues for criminal earnings.

      And imagine that … burning car blockades in Tijuana? Inspired by the AWFUL women of Minneapolis?

  5. Hopefully the government goes nuclear on their asses. I was just there a couple of weeks ago, so glad it didn’t happen when I was there.

    1. I just told my wife that Mexico is like a Pitbull … mostly peaceful and loving … till it chews your face off.

  7. I’m very concerned. My parents are vacationing in PV. We’ve been keeping in contact with them and they, as usual, don’t seem overly concerned at the moment. They are being told to stay in their hotel. Hopefully, order is restored quickly.

    We’ve been to PV many, many times and, honestly, I felt safer there than many other destinations. How quickly things can change.

    1. “How quickly things can change.”

      Yep, everything is fine and dandy until it’s not. Looking at Toronto, the situation there could actually be -more- dangerous than Mexico. More than two sides, right?

      1. Yes and it’s not just places like Mexico. We’ve experienced “interesting” situations in London, Switzerland, Paris and Barcelona. Nothing like cartel wars though. Even in our small rural area having a backup generator and emergency water supplies has come in handy.

      2. Mexico had 23,374 homicides in 2025. Or 17.7 per 100,000 population.

        Toronto had 42 murders in 2025.
        or 0.6 per 100,000 people.

        Chicago had 42 homicides so far in 2026.

        1. Joe, Joe, Joe … here in America … we don’t talk about Chicago murders and shootings. Cause that’s racist.

    2. “I’m very concerned. My parents are vacationing in PV. ”

      The cartel isn’t targeting tourists, fortunately. They are pissed at the government.

      1. True. Watching and waiting is really all that can be done at the moment. According to my parents, they have beer and a pool so they’re just going to kick back and wait for updates.

      2. Tourists can be collateral damage, depending where they are. For example, and, yes, anecdotal, I read that the cartel guys were shooting people at an airport.

    3. My wife is WestJet FA, Regina to Puerto Vallarta. Text at 11:15 MST that they had landed in Phoenix with 25 other diversions at that time. Left soon after, flying back to Regina. I would rather deal with Florida Man. They don’t have MANPADs.

    4. Your feeling of safety was an illusion. I was there a few years ago and something similar (but far less intense) where a police helicopter was shot down a couple of miles east of PV and they set a bunch of stuff on fire including a car that they pushed into a shopping mall. Mexico needs a house cleaning…..BIG TIME. It is teetering on being a failed state. I suspect the trade talks with the U.S. will collapse because of the unreliability of supply chains because of government corruption.

      1. For the most part tourists are safe (as long as they stick to tourist areas) because the cartels make a lot of money off of tourism.
        But if a turf war kicks off — and this will most likely start a turf war between rival factions within Jalisco and from the outside with Sinaloa looking for some new territory — then, you aren’t safe.

        1. Ah, they’ve apparently gotten one of his son’s too. This will get interesting. I think I’d cancel any plans to visit Mexico any time soon.

        2. Define “most part”. The smoke you see in PV is in the tourist area. We were south of PV at Playa Las Animas on a small beach when the trouble started when we were down there. All roads were closed and there were no hotels to stay where we were. On the of the people we were there with was a contract ship captain who would take rich folks yachts between Florida and Mexico scanned the water and saw what he thought was a sea worthy enough boat to get us to our hotel in Nuevo. We all piled in and went across the Bahia de Panderas to our home base. The place was dangerous enough that there were guards with machine guns all along the beach.

  8. In case anyone from Toronto/Montreal/Vancouver was wondering, when “prepers” and other “conservative weirdos” talk about a “#SHTF” situation, this is what they’re talking about.

    Remember Lefties, when the defecation really gets in the propeller blades, everybody gonna get splashed. Including -you-, pencil necked white collar soi boi types. Also remember that when the defecation is flying, the cops -might- be your friend, or they might not. It all depends. And if they’re not, you got a problem.

    So please, you atrocious lying idiots, watch what happens down South and try to learn something useful from it. Example, the best way to not get splashed is DON’T BE THERE. Are we learing yet?

    And for God’s sake at least buy a couple of cases of bottled water. If it doesn’t save your life it’ll probably save someone else’s.

    1. I have no doubt … all the Canadian Meheekoh vacationers would still claim Mexico is preferred to ewwwwww Trump’s America … as their hotel is on fire … and they are “barricading” themselves from the shooting.

  11. I can’t help but wonder about all those Union Employee’s and Gov’t Workers from Banada who were sticking it to the Orange Man by not going to Florida or Texas and spending their Banadian Microbucks in Mexico instead. How do they feel now, would they welcome a friendly ICE Agent who was trying to evict Cartel members and criminals or would they stick to the narrative they got from CBC? From the amount of Banadians who lined up for not just their first two shots of genetic manipulation therapy but also got multiple boosters, I would guess that they still would stick to the narrative. I am commenting from Texas where the weather is fine and the criminals would be shot by the locals after they lit the first fire, funny how knowing that people (without a criminal record) are allowed to open carry makes everyone much more polite and law abiding.

    1. Understand too, that it’s not just ElBoWZos there, there are are also travellers there, agnostic to their vacay destinations.
      We’ve been to PV several times over the years. We were in Honolulu last month, but are going to PV in June.
      So, let’s not get ahead of our paddles. Many of us, NOT ElBoWZos, still like going to Mexico too. Yes, we’re a bit concerned, but 3 months is a long time. Our hotel is a couple blocks from the Cruise Terminal, where a few CarBQs were filmed today and broadcast.
      Yes, there is the irony of the ElBoWZos going to PV because the “US isn’t Safe!”. Isn’t it Ironic!

  12. I hope Mexico gets a grip on this situation quickly.

    The online show “Borderland Dispatches” host of the show is katarinaszulc (Katarina Szulc) on Instagram has some reels showing the up close situation…

  13. I’ve often vacationed in resorts 45 minutes north of Puerto Vallarta. They’re quite remote, but you’d still have to get to and from the airport.

    2. They haven’t gone medieval…yet. Most of that sort of thing isn’t allowed on polite social media.

  16. The Las Vegas Board of Tourism would like to express its sincere gratitude to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.

  17. Hope all your family members are safe Kate. All of Mexico is lawless. And none of it has anything but the slightest veneer of police protection.
    You need to hear Mexican themselves speak about it to really have your eyes opened.

  18. Oh dear me. What *did* Claudia Sheinbaum think she was doing, turning on her paymasters like this?

    Sending members of Mexico’s real political leadership Stateside in hope of stopping President Trump from removing her from power as he had Nicolas Maduro was bad enough. Assassinating El Mencho was the last straw.

    Claudia knew, or should have known, that Mexico is ungovernable by any Mexican that doesn’t do the bidding of the cartels and their business partners in the Chinese Communist Party—something the cartels are now only too happy to demonstrate.

    During the Cold War this wouldn’t have been rocket science. Before they did anything else, the Mexican army would have removed Claudia from her post before the cartels did it for them, and replaced her with someone willing to ask the Yanquis for reinforcements. There’s only one force on this planet that can relieve the cartels and the Chinese Communist Party of their control of the United Mexican States—the armed forces of the United States of America.

    1. Just the Chinese? How many major world banks have been caught up in cartel money laundering scandals in the past 20 years?

  19. Well, well well. The CBC of all people reports:

    “Puerto Vallarta is famous for being a welcoming destination to the 2SLGBTQ+ community, especially for gay men.”

    “Yogi Omar — a queer Vancouverite who’s visiting for his birthday — describes it as “a little slice of heaven.” While it’s known for its party scene, the area is rich in culture and art, and there’s something for everyone, he says.”

    In other words, if this escalates enough to force the removal of Claudia Sheinbaum in favour of someone less inclined to let Mexico be a playground for Canadian pedophiles flocking there in seatch of cheap underage flesh (courtesy of the cartels, of course), Canadian pedophiles will no longer be welcome in Mexico.

    So you can see why the CBC are upset about this. Pedophile playground after pedophile playground is vanishing before their eyes.

    Which is what Americans voted for, of course—and what Canadians may one day be able to vote for.

    1. Name a country known for its sex tourism … and I’ll show you a country that sells children for sex. This is what happens when you’ve got no other options in life.

      But sex trafficking of poor children in poor countries … isn’t a bother till rich, powerful men with famous names start diddling them.

    2. In Centro, the “Romantic Zone” is really the GAY quarter of PV.
      We dropped into Andalay’s, a well known dive bar, on a cruise 3 years ago.
      Got bombed on giant Magaritas there, but missed the donkey dance in the evening.
      And yes, the area is full of young gay dudes, whatever. We laughed at them, dressed in various shades of either semi-drag, 70s era daisy dukes, robes, kimonos!, etc.
      But yes, it’s their destination where they think they’re “safe”, whatever that means.

  20. UPDATED: CJNG Cartel Unleashes Chaos at Guadalajara Airport and in Puerto Vallarta After Leader ‘El Mencho’ Killed in Military Raid – Reports of American Tourists Taken Hostage (SHOCKING VIDEOS) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cassandra MacDonald
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/breaking-cjng-cartel-unleashes-chaos-guadalajara-airport-after/
    TOUSI TV reports that a cartel communique has given a 5pm deadline local time (Puerto Vallarta): to:
    1) release the body of El Mencho
    2) surrender all Mexican officials and any US officials responsible for El Mencho’s death
    3) failure to do 1 & 2 will result in homes and hotels becoming targets

    1. Arrogant fools! They invite the devil across the threshold.. Murder one single ‘hostage’, and Trump will come. These lowlife have witnessed unspeakable violence at the hands of other cartel scum, but they have never experienced the real, inescapable terror of being on the business end of the U.S. SpecOps covert war machine. they are so precariously close right now.

      1. Wow! Fines are not enough. They can lose money without learing new behavior from that punishment.

  22. No people anywhere in the world should ever allow themselves to be disarmed.

    The People could easily put down these cartel scum if they were all armed.

    No, no, says the government! Give up your weapons, and WE will protect you!

    Doesn’t work. KEEP YOUR WEAPONS!

  23. Alllow me to play the Devil’s Advocate here. Just suppose the killing was not conducted by the Mexican military but by another drug cartel willing to go to war to claim a bigger slice of the drug empire. If that was the case a nation wide drug cartel war would put paid to the Mexican tourist trade. So to keep a lid on it the government claims responsibility. Problem now is if it was another drug cartel and they start taking hostages and the military and police cannot contain it then does that give the American government the right to send in forces to protect Americans? A lot of interesting possibilities are emerging but one thing you can bet the mortgage on is that all the ‘Elbows Up’ crowd that opted for a Mexican vacation instead of their usual destination of Florida or the southwest states are now rethinking their plans. Just a random thought but considering what is happening across the globe this could be the spark for the Trump administration to surreptitiously take over Mexico. Are we about to see the fruition of the Monroe Doctrine. Imagine the amalgamation of North America under the American Constitution.

    1. Even if it was the Mexican security forces, your theory could be true: the cartels have infiltrated them to the extreme.
      I find it interesting that they’re wanting to portray the U.S. as somehow behind this operation. Outside of some shared intel (and my country is very careful about what they share with the Mexican government because infiltrated by the cartels) we have not been operating in any appreciable manner in Mexico.
      Kind of interesting timing; that’s for sure.

      1. IIRC, the Jalisco Cartel was started by ‘elite’ Mexican ex-military anti-narcos, who were trained in large part by the U.S. military, and DEA (and likely the CIA). This organizational skill, command structure, access to and skill with military hardware, and clandestine contact with members of the Mexican military leadership, as well as with contacts within the various national police forces is what accelerated them to the top so quickly.. well, along with their exceptional talent for brutal, unspeakable violence towards competing cartels.. Regardless, they aren’t stupid, and they will have already assumed U.S. culpability in such a raid, so the Mexican government would do well to let the U.S. bear the brunt of Jalisco rage.. for now.. This particular cartel knows what the U.S. military and intelligence services are capable of, all too well, so I am interested to see how far they are willing to push it.. They would do well to lay low and lick their wounds for a while, and reflect upon the message Trump sent them, but.. they probably won’t..

        1. They also got training from the IRGC.
          U.S. ‘culpability’? Nah, this raid wasn’t ours, no matter how much Sheinbaum wants to get us tied up in it. My President offered Mexico our help at the beginning of his term; it was turned down. We provide some intelligence, but this wasn’t our work.
          This is all in house, Mexican stuff going on. They likely won’t take it into the U.S. for reasons, at least not much of it, but there’s going to be turf wars because there is now a power vacuum within the cartel. Canada should probably keep their heads on a swivel, Jalisco has a presence in your country.

          1. “.. Nah, this raid wasn’t ours, no matter how much Sheinbaum wants to get us tied up in it…”

            I don’t know it for certain, but I can’t assume that Sheinbaum was struck by some moral epiphany that drove her to demand action from her feckless, lazy, corrupt police forces and military, any more than I could believe they would actually get off their dead asses and listen to her.. put their families lives on the line, and stir up a dangerous hornet’s nest of violent retribution on her whim. It’s not like they’ve given much a shit for the last three or four decades.. why start now? No, I see the ghost hand of Trump goading her with a compelling heavy financial penalty/military force cattle-prod, or some other credible direct threat, and the DEA/CIA telling her and her flunkies when and how to do it.. I guess that’s just the cynic in me..

  24. Some of my Saskatchewan friends went to PV as well. I chose to go to Australia. Sitting on a deck with a cold one, in southern Tasmania right now. Watching the news reports, hoping my friends are OK.

  26. I have friends there for a wedding this Wednesday.
    They were expecting 90 guests but looks like only 20 are there, if it even goes ahead.
    One friend tried to land on Sunday, but got diverted to Cabo and then home to Winnipeg.
    Disaster for the Bride and Groom, they have been planning this a long time.
    Hope they all get home OK.

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