The United States is offering rewards of up to $5 million each for information leading to the arrests or convictions of René Arzate-García and Alfonso Arzate-García, two brothers alleged to be bosses in the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel, the State Department said in a statement on Thursday.
One of Mexico’s most notorious drug lords, Nemesio Oseguera, or “El Mencho,” was killed in a military raid on Sunday, sparking widespread retaliatory violence.
President Claudia Sheinbaum has been under mounting pressure from Washington to intensify her offensive against drug cartels blamed for producing and smuggling drugs, particularly the synthetic opioid fentanyl, across the border to the U.S.
Oseguera, 59, the mastermind of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) died in custody after being injured in a military operation by Mexican special forces in the town of Tapalpa in Mexico’s Jalisco state, according to Mexico’s defense ministry.
His corpse arrived in Mexico City on Sunday afternoon in a heavily guarded convoy of National Guard troops.
Clashes unfolded in multiple cities after the raid.
In recent years, arrests of other top cartel figures—particularly in Sinaloa state —have at times been followed by retaliatory violence, including shootouts and vehicles set on fire.
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