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CJNG is a cartel which was run by a guy called "El Mencho". El Mencho was killed during an operation where Mexican authorities allegedly attempted to arrest him. They failed to arrest anyone, but did end up killing El Mencho and everyone else he was with. Which you might expect, because he doesn't seem like the taken alive type. Some might even say he was a pretty ruthless guy. When he was on the come up -- killing old guys, consolidating territory, and all the other cartel-like things -- he took a hard line against cops and slaughtered them in set piece ambushes on more than one occasion. That's probably harder for the state to forgive than the standard cartel doings, like dumping truck loads of rival bodies in some disputed city. It seems that once the boss man was killed orders went out to cause problems for the state for having the gall to do such a thing, so you have hundreds of roadblocks, burning cars, firefights, and so on.
I'm not sure there was widespread civil unrest? So many fires to put out at once does lead to some unrest. I think the worst of it was in their territory but a cartel needs and has a lot of dudes with guns. They retaliate against the state to remind them what misbehavior leads to. The state responds, brrrrrrrt.* Eventually some new guy takes the crown and it's back to business. Bygones and all that.
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