People have shown on social media that the body of CJNG cartel leader Elmentoo arrived in Mexico City and it was heavily being escorted by national guards.
Word on the street is that Elmeno’s daughter walked into her father’s funeral with warrants on her head.
Past soldiers with loaded guns and nobody touched her.
And the message she allegedly shared inside that funeral is the reason El Chapo locked in the deepest prison in America might not be sleeping right now.
The death that started everything.
Well, there is an outbreak of violence across Mexico following the takedown of the notorious drug kingpin known as El Mencho.
On February [snorts] 22nd, 2026, Mexico woke up to news that had been considered almost impossible for over a decade.
Cartel chaos erupted across Mexico on Sunday after Mexican special forces killed one of the country’s most powerful cartel leaders known as Eleno.
Nemesis Ruben Oera Cervantes, the man known as Elno, was dead.
He’s one of the biggest drug copos in the history of drug trafficking around the globe.
And his cartel operated very much like a paramilitary force.
And the way they got him is the part that nobody saw coming.
Mexican forces had been tracking Eleno for years.
Through hospitals, through medical shipments for his kidney disease, through informants, through intelligence packages built with US support, but none of those leads had ever put him in the ground.
What finally cracked the case was something far more personal.
Authorities started tracking an associate connected to one of his romantic partners.
They followed the trail from February 20th.
They surrounded the area quietly and by the early hours of February 22nd, Mexican special forces with a targeting package built by a US joint inter agency task force moved in on a gated cabin complex in Tapalpa Jalisco.
Today, Mexican special forces killed Mencho in a raid on his hideout in Talalpa Halisco, a little mountain town about 80 mi southwest of Guadalajara.
Eleno tried to run.
He fled into the trees surrounding the compound with his bodyguards.
He was wounded during pursuit, captured and died on route to the hospital.
Two of his bodyguards died with him.
A military helicopter took a hit during the operation but landed safely.
So within hours, and I mean hours, cartel foot soldiers lit Halisco on fire.
They burning vehicles on the highways, road blockades across at least six states.
What happened next was the part that made the whole world pay attention.
CJNG members erected between 85 and 252 narco roadblocks made of hijacked burning vehicles across at least 13 states within hours of the announcement.
Gas stations burned, banks burned.
Over 200 oxo convenience stores were damaged.
Schools and public transport shut down.
The Guadalajara airport suspended flights.
Angry cartel members burned cars, buses, and gas stations, creating more than 250 roadblocks in several states across the country.
This was not disorganized rage.
It was coordinated.
A deliberate show of force designed to demonstrate that even without its leader, the CJNG could shut down an entire region of Mexico in an afternoon.
It’s not random chaos.
It’s a calculated response to what just happened.
So, they just burn everything, overwhelm the cops, show the government and every rival cartel that even with the boss dead, we can still shut down an entire region of Mexico in an afternoon.
At least 73 people died across the operation and its immediate aftermath.
That number includes 25 to 27 National Guard members killed in retaliatory attacks in Jaliscoco alone.
All unfolding this weekend.
Mexican authorities tell CBS News that 25 members of the National Guard were killed in retaliatory attacks in Halisco.
The man running the retaliation on the ground was Elmeno’s right-hand lieutenant, Ugo [snorts] Cesar Matias Urinia, known as Eluli.
He was killed the following day, February 23rd, in Elguo.
That is how fast the ground was shifting.
The funeral that followed would become its own story entirely.
El Mencho’s body was transported in what appeared to be an ambulance heavily escorted by National Guard to a funeral home agreed upon by the family.
He was buried in a gold casket surrounded by enormous flower wreaths with a large military presence in the state whose name he had turned into a global brand.
People have shown on social media that the body of CJNG cartel leader Elmentoo arrived in Mexico City and it was heavily being escorted by national guards.
But it was who showed up at that funeral and what they allegedly did that ignited the story everyone has been talking about ever since.
The family behind the empire.
To understand why Eleno’s family and specifically his daughter became the center of attention after his death, you have to understand who these people actually are.
El Mencho was born in 1966 in El Nuranho de Chila, small farming village in Aguilia Mituakan to a family that grew avocados.
He dropped out of school at around age 10 or 11.
By 14, he was guarding marijuana plots, the standard entry point for young men in Tiierra Caliente, who had nowhere else to go.
He migrated to California in the early to mid 1980s, got tangled up in small-time drug dealing, racked up arrests, and eventually caught a federal heroin conspiracy charge in 1994.
He served three years at the Big Spring Correctional Center in Texas and was deported to Mexico in 1997.
Back in Mexico, he did something that would later make every law enforcement officer who studied him shake their head.
He joined the Jaliscoco State Police.
He worked coastal towns like Cabo Corientes and Tomatlan.
He learned how the system worked from the inside.
Then he walked away from it and into the millennial cartel as an enforcer and hitman.
The marriage that changed everything was to Rosalinda Gonzalez Valencia, a woman from a family that had been operating moneyaundering networks for years.
Her family’s arm, known as Los Quinus, handled the financial architecture of what would become the CJNG.
That marriage was not just personal.
It was a structural alliance that gave Elmeno the financial backbone to build a cartel.
When the millennial cartel fractured between 2009 and 2010 after the arrests of its top leaders and the death of Sinaloa Capo Ignasio Coronel, Eleno’s faction emerged on top.
They rebranded as the CJNG, declared war on the Zetas to build legitimacy and within a few years had expanded into a franchise operation spanning 28 to 36 Mexican states and more than 40 countries.
His family was embedded in every layer of it.
Rosalinda, known inside the organization as LaFa, ran the financial operations.
She managed an estimated 73 front companies that laundered tens of millions of dollars.
He was arrested in 2021, sentenced in 2023, and released early in February 2025.
His son, Rubeno Sea Gonzalez, known as Elmanito, ran US facing operations before he was extradited to the United States in 2020.
He was sentenced to life plus 30 years in 2025 and ordered to forfeit over $6 billion in drug proceeds.
Then there are the daughters, two of them, and they are very different stories.
Jessica Johanna Oguera Gonzalez, known as Lanenegra, was born in San Francisco and held dual US Mexican citizenship.
She ran the cartel’s most visible front operations, sushi restaurants, a tequila brand called Ans Black, a vacation rental complex, an advertising firm.
She was arrested by US authorities in Washington DC in February 2020 while attending her brother’s extradition hearing.
She pleaded guilty to five counts of violating the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Act, was sentenced to 30 months at FCAR Dublin in California, and was released early in March 2022 under the First Step Act.
By 2023, she had purchased a newly built 5-bedroom home in Winchester, California for $590,000 in cash.
The youngest daughter, Lisha Michelle Osaggera Gonzalez, was born on April 4th, 2001.
She turned 25 in 2026.
She has maintained the lowest profile of all Elmeno’s children, running a small coffee shop in a strip mall in Paris, California.
The place is called El Ringon Lulis.
The menu features iced horada lattes, Mexican mochas, strawberry matcha, chiliquilles, fruit crepes.
Neighbors describe it as a normal neighborhood spot.
Spanish signs on the walls say things like, “Love can wait, but food cannot.
” It is Lisha, who ended up at the center of the most explosive story to come out of her father’s death.
She showed up at El Meno’s funeral in Guadalajara in early March 2026, died blonde hair, sunglasses, walking past military checkpoints despite having Mexican arrest warrants linked to a 2021 case involving the alleged retaliatory kidnapping of two Mexican Navy personnel after her mother’s arrest.
She was not stopped.
She was not detained.
Photos of her at the funeral circulated on Mexican social media immediately.
And that image, a young woman with a warrant on her head, strolling past armed soldiers at her father’s gold casket, was the kindling that lit the internet on fire.
The gold casket, the funeral, and the daughter who showed up.
The funeral for Nemesis Oera Cervantes was not a quiet affair.
His body arrived in what appeared to be a coroner’s vehicle, an ambulance converted for transport, escorted by a convoy of National Guard units.
The same National Guard that had been the target of CJNG bounties in the days prior.
The bounty issued through Eluli before his own death on February 23rd was 20,000 pesos per national guard member killed, roughly $1,200.
And yet here they were, guns and all, escorting the body of the man whose organization had put that bounty on their heads.
Now, interesting enough, remember in the wake of his death, little bit of a oxymoron there, but still you get what I mean.
In the wake of his death, his organization CJ&NG was actually, you know, kind of uh ordered by another person, a guy named El Tuli, which is, you know, down the leadership chain from Eleno to murder any National Guard members if they so saw them.
This was not an oversight.
It was the reality of how power operates in Mexico.
The government cannot simply discard a cartel leader’s body in the street.
The blowback would be catastrophic.
So you absorb the discomfort, escort the body, and let the family bury their dead.
The alternative is worse.
When Elmento gets buried goes to show how the government has to treat it.
They can’t just like disrespect it and disregard it.
He was buried in a gold casket.
Enormous flower wreaths surrounded it.
The ceremony took place in Guadalajara and reportedly extended to Zapopan, the region his cartel had dominated for over a decade.
They’re saying the leader of the Halisco New Generation cartel was buried on Monday in a shiny gold casket with enormous flower wreaths.
Then came the photographs that spread across Mexican social media and then international social media within hours.
There was Lisha, Elmeno’s youngest daughter at the funeral, dyed blonde hair, dark sunglasses, standing among family near her father’s casket, and she walked past checkpoints with Mexican arrest warrants hanging over her head.
Imagine now you have martyzed the guy so you killed the guy which now you make him in in essence a martyr.
The image was jarring not because funerals are unusual but because of what her presence represented.
Here was the daughter of a man the Mexican government had just killed in a joint operation with the United States surrounded by the military that killed him standing in daylight without being touched.
It sent one very clear message to everyone watching.
The reach of the CJNG did not end at the grave.
Laiisha’s attendance was confirmed by photographs that circulated through Mexican media outlets in early March 2026.
The warrants tied to her name stem from a 2021 case in which Mexican authorities alleged that she and her husband Christian Fernando Gutierrez Ooa known as Elgucho were linked to the retaliatory kidnapping of two Mexican Navy personnel in Zapopan following her mother Rosalinda’s arrest.
Federal forces raided homes.
Nobody was apprehended.
Her husband allegedly faked his death, escaped through a tunnel from Tijuana, resurfaced in California under an alias, bought a $1.
2 million home in Riverside, and was eventually arrested in 2024.
He was sentenced to 11 years in December of that year for Coca;ne, methamphetamine trafficking, and money laundering charges.
Lisha herself has faced no US charges.
She travels freely on her US citizenship.
But it is what happened at that funeral or what people online began to claim happened that took the story from remarkable to explosive.
The claim spread fast that Lisha had not simply attended the funeral that she had done something there that she had sent a message that there was a video and that video according to the claim was addressed to El Chapo.
The claim the video and El Chapo in a supermax cell.
The moment El Mencho’s death was confirmed, the CJNG’s relationship with every other cartel in Mexico became the most urgent question in the criminal world.
The most important of those relationships, historically and operationally, has always been with the Sinaloa cartel, and the most famous face associated with Sinaloa, even in captivity, remains Haqin El Chapo Guzman.
CJNG did not start as Sinaloa’s enemy.
It started as a Sinaloa aligned faction within the Millennial Cartel.
The break happened around 2013, driven by territorial disputes, suspicions of betrayal, and Elmeno’s decision to build an independent empire rather than remain a subordinate piece of someone else’s.
From that point forward, the two organizations became fierce rivals, fighting proxy wars in Mitoakan, Guerrero, Guanauato, Chiaas, and dozens of other corridors.
The most documented flash point between the two groups came in August 2016.
CJNG gunman abducted Jesus Salfredo Guzman Salazar, one of El Chapo’s sons, along with five associates from a restaurant in Porerto Viarda.
The hostages were held as leverage.
El Chapo, still directing operations from a Mexican prison, leveraged connections to negotiate their release, which came after roughly a week.
The counter threat reportedly involved pressure placed on Elmenito, who was in federal custody at the time.
That mutual hostage standoff accelerated the shift from shadow rivalry to open war.
This a lot of people may know the name El Chapo who was the leader of the Sinaloa cartel.
In El Chapo’s case in the Sinaloa cartel, it was like a federation.
El Chapo has been held at ADX Florence, the federal supermax prison in Colorado since his extradition and sentencing in 2019.
He lives under special administrative measures, 23-hour solitary confinement, minimal contact, heavily monitored communication, censored mail.
His legal team filed reports in 2025 and 2026 describing extreme isolation, health decline, anxiety, and limited Spanish language support.
He is for practical purposes completely cut off from the outside world, at least through any authorized channel.
Who actually runs the CJNG now and what comes next? Elmento was what analysts call a centralized leader.
Fact that Elmeno was a centralized leader.
Almentoto basically held all of the power in his cartel.
He was not running a federation the way Sinaloa was.
With powerful families and semi-autonomous factions that could survive a leadership collapse, he was the king, which means whoever inherits his position does not split a pie with equals.
They take everything or they go to war for it.
Whoever leads that cartel has everything.
There ain’t no powerful factions.
The king rules the country.
The king rules the country.
The name that has emerged most consistently in credible reporting from El Pais and sources close to the Wall Street Journal is Juan Carlos Valencia Gonzalez.
He goes by several aliases, Elserot Tres, El Pelon Art Tress.
He is Elmeno’s stepson, Rosalinda’s son from a prior relationship and he is American born around 1984 in Santa Ana, California.
He holds dual citizenship.
He carries a $5 million US bounty and he has deep ties to the CJNG’s most elite paramilitary wing, Groupo Elite, the formation responsible for the most sophisticated military-style operations the cartel has carried out.
Unlike the Daughters, L03 has been described as having operational command experience, not just financial management experience.
He knows the territory, the weapons infrastructure, and the chain of command inside the cartel’s most dangerous units.
He is described by analysts as running a franchise-style restructuring of the organization.
A model specifically designed to survive the death of any single leader by distributing operational authority to regional cells while maintaining brand identity and coordinated logistics above them.
Other names in the running for internal influence include a long list of lieutenants.
Gonzalo Mendoza Gaitan Elsapo who controls armed factions and port import logistics.
Audi’s Flores Silva El Cardinero who holds regional influence in Nayarit Halisco and Mitwakan.
Ricardo Ruiz Velasco Dolar Heracio Guerrero Martinez Tio Laco and Eric Valencia Salasar L85 one of the original co-founders of the cartel who has cycled in and out of custody over the years.
Each of these men represents a potential fault line.
And then there is Jessica Lenegra.
She purchased a five-bedroom home in Winchester, California for $590,000 cash in 2023.
Reports have noted that the Talpa hideout raided in the February 2026 operation was linked to a vacation rental property she managed.
That connection has drawn renewed scrutiny from US authorities, though no new charges have been filed.
The Empire itself, whatever happens to its leadership, is not going away quietly.
CJNG’s revenue streams include billions in annual fentanyl and methamphetamine trafficking, hundreds of millions from fuel theft, over $300 million defrauded from US retirees through timeshare scams between 2019 and 2023, extortion of industries from avocado farming to tequila distilleries, human smuggling, and a web of money laundering fronts spanning over 60 shell companies in jewelry, construction, hospitality, and agriculture.
The DEA’s 2025 National Drug Threat Assessment describes the cartel as generating billions of dollars annually with organizational assets potentially reaching 20 to50 billion dollars.
Mencha was a monster.
He turned an entire generation of young Mexican men into cartel soldiers.
He poisoned American cities with fentanel.
And here is what all of this comes back to.
The claim in the title, Eleno’s daughter sends a chilling video to El Chapo is not supported by any credible evidence.
No intelligence leak, no mainstream outlet, no official report from US or Mexican law enforcement has confirmed that any such video exists, was filmed or was delivered to El Chapo’s cell at ADX Florence.
The videos on YouTube making this claim contain no footage of the alleged video.
No timestamps, no sourcing, only narration over old cartel imagery.
What actually happened at the funeral is that Lisha Michelle Ogua Gonzalez attended in person, walked past military checkpoints with Mexican arrest warrants attached to her name, and was not detained.
No speech, no words on record, no verified threat.
The terror was the image itself.
And the channels that monetize cartel drama understood exactly how to build a 20-minute video around that image without ever producing a single piece of evidence.
You have martyrized the guy, so you killed the guy, which now you make him in in essence a martyr.
and you have to put on a lavish or escort his body while a lavish funeral gets put on that.
But the story underneath the myth is real and it is serious.
The CJNG still controls the most significant fentinel supply chain hitting American cities.
Whoever takes El Mencho’s place, whether it is L03 or one of the lieutenants or some internal war between all of them, will inherit a 20 to50 billion dollar empire built on synthetic drugs, extortion, time share fraud, and paramilitary violence.
Eleno is gone.
The organization he built is not.
And the real conversation, one happening in boardrooms and military briefings rather than YouTube comment sections, is about what comes next when the most militarized drug cartel in the Western Hemisphere transitions power without a clear line of succession.
While its rivals circle, its cells remain armed and its infrastructure keeps generating more money in a month than most countries see in a year.
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