BELMOPN, Belize – Belize's government is urging all of its nationals resident in or transiting Mexico, to exercise a high degree of caution and to be conscious of their environment at all times.
Violence erupts in Mexico after security forces kill cartel leader ‘El Mencho’“Belizeans are advised to avoid non-essential travel in the following states: Jalisco, Tamaulipas, Michoacan, Guerrero, and Nuevo Leon. Belizeans, particularly in Merida and the northern areas of Quintana Roo, are to exercise caution and monitor local warnings and official forums,” the government said in a brief statement.
It said that the advisory “is as a result of a major anti-narcotics operation conducted by the Mexican government and retaliatory actions by narco-players in Mexico.
“The government of Belize continues to monitor the situation, which currently has no direct impact on Belize, and will update the public accordingly,” the statement added.
On Sunday, the Mexican authorities said that they had killed Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, one of world’s most wanted drug traffickers, and that his death from a military operation had set off wave of disorder across several Mexican states.
The drug lord, whose real name is Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, was killed on Sunday in the western state of Jalisco along with at least six alleged accomplices, the ministry said in a statement.
The 59-year-old was the leader of a gang that in recent years had become Mexico’s most powerful and notorious criminal organisation, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).
