Mexican cartel leader’s wife captured

GUADALAJARA, Mexico — Mexican authorities have arrested the wife of a drug cartel leader in the city of Guadalajara, the interior minister said on Sunday.

Rosalinda Gonzalez Valencia, the wife of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho,” was taken into custody by Mexican navy agents, the minister said. Cervantes heads Jalisco New Generation, one of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartels.

“This woman is a likely administrator of both economic and legal assets of this criminal organization. She had been sought on an organized crime warrant,” Interior Minister Alfonso Navarrete told a news conference.

Gonzalez was put into preventive detention and has been brought before a judge, Mr. Navarrete said.

Security forces, civil defense and emergency medical services were put on alert in case of retaliatory attacks by the cartel, and troops were deployed to guard approaches to the city.

On Monday, Guadalajara was shaken by the attempted assassination of Jalisco Labor Secretary Luis Najera, a former state prosecutor who was attacked by armed men in a restaurant.

The Mexican government estimates that the Jalisco New Generation cartel has amassed a $50-billion fortune. It has carried out attacks against military and police targets, including the 2015 downing of a military helicopter in which 20 soldiers and a policewoman were killed. —