The leader of Mexico’s most powerful criminal business is now facing the music
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/04/they_got_the_gardener_in_mexico.html
They captured another narco in Mexico. The Mexican authorities got a guy named “The Gardener” this time. Let’s read it about it:
Mexican special forces have arrested Audias Flores, known as ‘El Jardinero’ and one of the top commanders of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), in the western state of Nayarit, security minister Omar Garcia Harfuch said on Monday.
Flores - a regional commander in control of swathes of CJNG territory along Mexico’s Pacific coast - was considered a potential successor to Nemesio Oseguera, alias ‘El Mencho,’ who ran the cartel and was killed in a security operation in February.
Security forces surrounded a cabin in El Mirador, some 20 km (12 miles) north of the popular resort city of Puerto Vallarta, where Flores was being protected by a perimeter of some 30 pickup trucks and over 60 gunmen, according to a press release from Mexico’s Navy, which led the operation.
Flores’ escorts scattered as a diversion but he was located as he tried to hide in a drainage ditch, it added.
‘The operation was carried out with surgical precision without a single shot being fired,’ the Navy said in a statement.
Congratulations to Mexican authorities for catching another one. You probably agree with me that these narcos have great names: “El Mencho” and now “El Jardinero” or, the gardener. Where do they get these names? I don’t know, but keep it coming.
Another question: Did the Mexican president know? The article mentions that there was cooperation with the U.S. Really?
I hate to be nasty, but we’ve had that problem before. There are rumors south of the border that sometimes the good guys who arrest these narcos are afraid of “leaks” if they tell too many people up the chain of command. I don’t know if that's the case with this narco, but the rumors fly.
I can’t wait to learn the name of the next guy.
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