"El Tuli", The Right Hand Of "El Mencho" Who Organized The Riots After The Death Of The Head Of The Jalisco New Generation Cartel And Was Also Killed

A public transport vehicle on fire and a photo of "The Tuli"

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February 24, 2026
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He even provided 20,000 pesos (US$1,150) for every soldier killed in the riots.

He ordered roads and communication routes to be blocked, automobiles and different automobiles to be burned, barracks and companies to be attacked and chaos to be wreaked after the navy operation that this Sunday beheaded the harmful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) killing its chief, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, “El Mencho.”

His right-hand man, Hugo César Macías Ureña, alias “El Tuli” or “El Tulipán”, was recognized by the Mexican authorities as the coordinator of armed cells and monetary operator of the CJNG, and as the mental writer of the blockades and riots that adopted the death of “El Mencho”, and through which 25 members of the National Guard and three civilians died.

Macías Ureña himself also misplaced his life in clashes with safety forces, in addition to 33 different alleged criminals linked to the CJNG.

“With central military intelligence, information was also obtained that Hugo ‘H’, alias ‘El Tuli’, who was the logistical, financial operator and the main trusted person of ‘El Mencho’, was in El Grullo, Jalisco,” stated General Ricardo Trevilla Trejo, Secretary of National Defense, in the press convention through which the crownology of the operation in opposition to the CJNG was detailed.

From El Grullo “he was coordinating blockades on communication routes, vehicle fires, attacks on military installations, the National Guard, in short, businesses, government facilities, etc. And he also offered 20,000 pesos for each soldier who murdered all the personnel of this criminal group,” revealed the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, Omar García Harfuch.

In response, an airmobile unit of Special Forces from the Parachute Rifle Brigade was deployed, defined Trevilla Trejo.

Upon being situated, “El Tuli” tried to flee in a car and allegedly opened hearth on the troops deployed to seize him, who responded by killing what was thought of one of the closest collaborators of “El Mencho”, also generally known as “The Lord of the Roosters”.

Macías Ureña had a number of weapons in his possession, greater than 7.2 million pesos and virtually US$1 million.

Who was “El Tuli”

Hugo César Macías Ureña seems in ministerial investigations and intelligence experiences as one of the operational commanders closest to the now deceased Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, in keeping with the newspaper “Milenio.”

This is even revealed by a number of narcocorridos devoted to “El Tuli”, that musical style fashionable in some areas of Mexico that praises the figures of drug traffickers and provides particulars about their lives.

In “El Tulipán”, by Martín Castillo, it’s identified, for instance, that “el 5”, as Macías Ureña was also identified, is “a very trusted compadre for that Señor de los Gallos, in good times and bad, they have never let him down, and in the worst battles they have always won.”

“I won’t say what he does, I don’t want any misunderstandings,” continues Martín Castillo, “but he is Mencho’s friend and loves his children very much.”

“El Tuli” was, apparently, designated as the direct chief of shock cells with affect in the territorial operation, in keeping with the info supplied by detained hitmen and leaked paperwork, in keeping with “Milenio.”

Authorities clarified that Macías Ureña had not been formally named “El Mencho’s” successor, however he rapidly assumed operational management of the cartel after the chief’s death.

During the group’s growth stage in western Mexico, “El Tuli” was half of the cartel’s second operational line, at which era it consolidated its mannequin based mostly on closely armed cellular cells.

Three components had made, in keeping with the newspaper, Macías Ureña consolidate his development inside the CJNG construction: the capacity he needed to recruit new members, the management of teams of hitmen and the tactical coordination in the area.

These are attributes that he was in a position to show final Sunday when he took the reins of the cartel’s response to the navy operation in opposition to “El Mencho.”

The arrest in the previous of members of the cartel resembling Juan Francisco Aguilar Santana, alias “Juan Pistolas”, locations him as a regional commander with entry to the central construction of the CJNG.