{"id":201330,"date":"2026-02-23T10:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/us-issues-shelter-in-place-alert-for-americans-in-parts-of-mexico-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:48:18","slug":"us-issues-shelter-in-place-alert-for-americans-in-parts-of-mexico-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/us-issues-shelter-in-place-alert-for-americans-in-parts-of-mexico-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"US issues &#039;shelter in place&#039; alert for Americans in parts of Mexico &#8211; USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. State Department issued a security warning on Feb. 22 advising Americans in Mexico to \u201cshelter in place\u201d until further notice, after the leader of the <a href=\/story\/news\/world\/2026\/02\/22\/el-mencho-cartel-leader-killed-mexico\/88814118007\/ data-t-l=:b|e|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>Jalisco New Generation Cartel was killed<\/a> by the Mexican army.<br \/>\u201cDue to ongoing security\u00a0operations and\u00a0related\u00a0road blockages and criminal activity,\u00a0U.S. citizens\u00a0in the named locations\u00a0should shelter in place until further notice,\u201d the state department said in its <a href=https:\/\/mx.usembassy.gov\/security-alert-ongoing-security-operations-u-s-mission-mexico-february-22-2026\/ data-t-l=:b|z|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>security alert<\/a>.<br \/>The areas listed by the state department include Jalisco\u00a0State (including Puerto Vallarta, Chapala, and Guadalajara), Tamaulipas State (including Reynosa and other municipalities), areas of Michoacan State, Guerrero State, and Nuevo Leon State.<br \/>Mexican drug lord Nemesio Rube\u0301n Oseguera Cervantes&#8217;s death was confirmed by the country&#8217;s <a href=https:\/\/www.gob.mx\/defensa\/prensa\/la-secretaria-de-la-defensa-nacional-informa-sobre-una-operacion-para-la-detencion-de-ruben-n-a-mencho target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=:b|z|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>Ministry of National Defense in a news release.<\/a> Known as &#8220;El Mencho,&#8221; the cartel leader was killed in a military operation in Tapalpa, Jalisco on the morning of Feb. 22.<br \/>Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau called El Mencho one of the &#8220;bloodiest and most ruthless drug kingpins&#8221; <a href=https:\/\/x.com\/DeputySecState\/status\/2025648742049947797 data-t-l=:b|z|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>in a post on X.<\/a><br \/>&#8220;This is a great development for Mexico, the US, Latin America, and the world,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMisgFBVV95cUxQVjhka2JsOE5CazFJaXRiLTNPcnRCN1pFc2VQbHNoLU51bzNzNzY5R281czh2cko4eU5tdk9kNWNzQzNxYUE0UHdwMVpnQ2hoYzV6QTF3VC1BMGFJWkZvVTZ1LTVEODBlQjVEMUtDOUV0LXJHVlF4Tkd4ME5uTFVnMWhKV21kOURzQi1fX2ZuREJnUWVrNEh2angzMm15WGJyVzgxdnRGVm14a0s3WmVhZDB3?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. State Department issued a security warning on Feb. 22 advising Americans in Mexico to \u201cshelter in place\u201d until further notice, after the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel was killed by the Mexican army.\u201cDue to ongoing security\u00a0operations and\u00a0related\u00a0road blockages and criminal activity,\u00a0U.S. citizens\u00a0in the named locations\u00a0should shelter in place until further notice,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-201330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-us","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}