A burnt bus set up as a blockade by members of organized crime following a military operation in which Mexican officials said cartel boss Nemesio Oseguera, “El Mencho,” was killed on Feb. 22, 2026. Gabriel Trujillo/Reuters
Canadians in Puerto Vallarta and the surrounding area say some roads are still blocked and the situation remains dangerous and unclear amid a recent outbreak of violence in Mexico between cartel members and government forces.
Ottawa resident Carolyn Percy-Searle told The Epoch Times that she and her husband Craig arrived at their timeshare in Puerto Vallarta late on Feb. 20. She said days later, after watching the Canada-U.S. Olympic hockey game on Feb. 22, they went outside and saw “smoke and numerous fires all around.”
