Terrifying way ultra rich Americans were smuggled out of cartel hell

Ultra rich Americans were forced to flee by boat when one of Mexico’s top tourist destinations turned into a cartel hellhole following the killing of a murderous drug kingpin.

Wealthy vacationers escaped Puerto Vallarta via the ocean when its airport shut down and narco-terrorists set up road blocks across the state of Jalisco this week.

An insider told the California Post people were hiring well-armed mercenaries or security teams to smuggle them to the port where they chartered vessels up to Cabos before flying back to the US.

Mexico descended into a warzone when special forces killed cartel boss Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes in an early morning raid on Sunday.

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The bustling tourist hotspot of Puerto Vallarta became the epicenter of the violence, with cars burnt in the streets and visitors locked down in their hotels.

A source with deep knowledge of security personnel and contractors operating in the country revealed it is a booming business there and was sparked into action this week.

They told the Post: “A lot of people make money getting people out. The main exit was a pipeline of people going on ferry rides from Puerto Vallarta across to Cabos and on private flights out.

“Most of the clients did that. High net worth people who had family members down there, ex-wives, kids on timeshares down there, people who may or may not be linked to US politics.”

They continued: “People are making a lot, its lucrative but dangerous. It’s regulated federally now. If you get caught without documents or found with a gun and working outside the law you’ll be in federal custody.

“Its the wild west in Mexico.” They continued: “There’s security and extractions and a whole business around it, it’s booming. The joke is the American dream isn’t in Florida anymore it’s in Mexico.

“There are a lot of mercenaries working in extraction in the hostile environment.” They said the operations were “spicy” because cartel roadblocks suddenly descended around Jalisco state.

They continued: “It’s spicy heading into the town. There were two roadblocks not the military, they’re not hiding, they’re out in force.

“The cartels are not just the guys on back of trucks, they’re also in the police and the military working directly for them.”

Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” was tracked and killed after intelligence agencies were able to follow one of his lovers to his secluded resort compound.

Officers found the woman was taken to Tapalpa, a mountainside getaway community in Jalisco where Oseguera and his men were located.

While the girlfriend eventually left the resort, El Mencho and his men remained holed up in the compound when the Mexican military deployed its special forces to take them out.