Guadalupe Moreno Carrillo: Operation in Tapalpa focused on El Mencho’s cabins
The role of guadalupe moreno carrillo is unclear in the provided context. Federal forces carried out an operation in Tapalpa, Jalisco, to capture Rubén Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as El Mencho, centering on the Country Club and the cabaña numbered 39.
Operation perimeter and movements
The operation to capture Rubén Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes covered more than four kilometers to the radius around the Country Club in Tapalpa and authorities established a cordon at every point where the capo could escape. El Mencho fled his cabin, number 39, and reportedly traveled at least two kilometers in a camioneta over brechas and caminos empedrados that lead to a wooded area, but the attempt was ultimately unsuccessful.
Escorts, La Loma and fires
Residents gave testimonies that while federal forces advanced, the majority of El Mencho’s escorts, who were lodged in the cabins of La Loma, were surprised and tried to slow the Army and Guardia Nacional troops by setting fire to the pastizales that run from the Country Club grounds to the Rancho Pinto grounds. Those grounds form part of a single property separated by abrupt terrain but connected by brechas.
Cabin 39 and sanctuary
Oseguera maintained one of his sanctuaries in cabaña 39, and dozens of sicarios spent the night in the houses of La Loma. Neighbors described him as "una persona tranquila. " In the rooms at La Loma, located two kilometers from the Country Club, was the security circle of El Mencho, ready to intervene as federal forces moved in.
Air and ground deployment
At around 7 a. m., the sound of helicopters disrupted the calm of Tapalpa, a pueblo mágico in the sierra zone of Jalisco. On Sunday, that peace was broken when a large number of Ejército and Guardia Nacional personnel deployed by land and air — on foot, in armored vehicles and in helicopters — to confront the forces of Oseguera Cervantes. The organization led by El Mencho is considered by the U. S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) as the third most dangerous in the world.
Investigations and evidence collection
On Monday, personnel from the Fiscalía General de la República (FGR) and the Ejército conducted diligencias as part of investigation folder FED/FEMDO/FEIDICS-JAL/0000230/2026 in the cabins of La Loma, which had been abandoned abruptly. Authorities found evidence of how the sicarios slept, how they kept watch over the surroundings, and traces of the use of firearms and explosives that were employed to try to prevent the capture of their leader.
Testimonies from inhabitants and employees of hotels and recreational centers in the area conveyed fear. Many said control of the area remained in the hands of members of the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación and that El Mencho and his people moved between Tapalpa, El Grullo, Villa Purificación and Autlán. The main access to the Country Club, five kilometers from the town center, has tile roofs and many adobe constructions painted white with a brown stripe, a setting that on its surface appears tranquil and attractive to tourism but where a so-called pax narca was lived until the operation disrupted it on Sunday.
Questions about who approved an operation of this scale are unclear in the provided context, and the available material does not specify any involvement by public officials. The single documented investigation reference is folder FED/FEMDO/FEIDICS-JAL/0000230/2026.
The sequence of events—helicopter arrival at around 7 a. m., the dispersal of security forces across a radius greater than four kilometers, El Mencho’s flight from cabaña 39, the attempted delays by his escorts through deliberate fires, and the Monday diligencias by FGR and Ejército in La Loma—remains the factual record present in the material provided.
