By MEGAN JANETSKY

TAPALPA, Mexico (AP) — Maria Dolores Aguirre’s family corner store has lived off tourism that has flowed into her charming cobblestoned town of Tapalpa, tucked away in the mountains of Jalisco state.

That was until gunshots erupted and helicopters flew overhead as the Mexican army killed the country’s most powerful drug lord, just a few miles from her home.

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Now, the 50-year-old Aguirre worries that the bloodshed will deal a blow to her livelihood and change towns like hers. It is something many in the western Mexican state are grappling with, from its Pacific Ocean beaches to its capital Guadalajara that will host matches in June for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

“It’s going to affect us. It’s collateral damage,” Aguirre said. “The government is going to have to have a lot of security. … The entire world just saw what happened and, of course, people are going to think twice about coming.”

President Claudia Sheinbaum was asked at her daily news briefing on Tuesday what guarantees there are that World Cup matches will be held in Jalisco. “Every guarantee, every guarantee,” she said, adding that there was “no risk” for fans coming to the tournament.

Fighting between the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and Mexican security forces raged on in a number of states Monday, fueling fears among many like Aguirre that there will be more violence to come.

More than 70 people died in the attempt to capture Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes and its aftermath, authorities said Monday. Known as “El Mencho,” he was the notorious leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, one of the fastest-growing criminal networks in Mexico, known for trafficking fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine to the United States and staging brazen attacks against Mexican government officials.

The White House confirmed that the U.S. provided intelligence support to the operation to capture the cartel leader and applauded Mexico’s army for taking down a man who was one of the most wanted criminals in both countries. The U.S. State Department had offered a reward of up to $15 million for information leading to the arrest of “El Mencho.”

The death of Oseguera Cervantes came as Mexico’s government has stepped up its offensive against cartels in an effort to meet demands by U.S. President Donald Trump to crack down on criminal groups, threatening to impose more tariffs or take unilateral military action if the country does not show results.

Mexico hoped the death of one of the world’s biggest fentanyl traffickers would ease that pressure, but many people were anxious as they waited to see the powerful cartel’s reaction.

Oseguera Cervantes died after a shootout with the Mexican military on Sunday. Mexican Defense Secretary Gen. Ricardo Trevilla said Monday that authorities had tracked one of his romantic partners to his hideout in Tapalpa. The cartel leader and two bodyguards fled into a wooded area where they were seriously wounded in a firefight. They were taken into custody and died on the way to Mexico City, Trevilla said.

In the aftermath, a sense of unease simmered in tourist towns.

The Pacific Ocean resort city of Puerto Vallarta also was hard hit by cartel reprisals, frightening tourists.

Steve Perkins, 57, was visiting Puerto Vallarta with his wife Gayle and some friends. They were on their hotel room’s terrace when explosions and black smoke started appearing around the city Sunday morning.

Their return to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, was delayed when their flight was canceled Monday and they were rebooked for March 1.

Perkins and his wife have been taking annual trips to Puerto Vallarta since 2012 and have always felt safe, until now. He said they don’t plan on returning to Mexico.

“There’s a lot of Americans trapped here,” Perkins said.

Aguirre worked next to her son from the small neighborhood shop her family has owned for 50 years. The 15-year-old’s classes were canceled due to the violence.

Aguirre said it was unclear who exactly was in control of the area surrounding her: the military or the cartel. The other question on her mind was if this was just a one-off, or if there was more violence to come.

“We don’t know if these people (cartel leaders) are permanently here or not,” she said. “If they really did kill this leader, it could be that they fight between each other to win control or see who will lead it.”

Associated Press writer Juan Lozano in Houston contributed to this report.

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER, KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and DEVI SHASTRI

U.S. President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post Saturday that he would deploy a hospital ship to Greenland, alleging many people there are sick and not receiving care, even though both of the U.S. Navy’s hospital ships are undergoing maintenance at a shipyard in Alabama.

The announcement prompted a defense of Greenland’s health care system from its prime minister in the latest point of friction with Trump, who has frequently talked about seizing Greenland, which is a semiautonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark.

Here is a closer look at the facts:

Trump claims there is widespread illness

Referring to his special envoy to the Arctic territory, Trump said, “Working with the fantastic Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, we are going to send a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there.”

THE FACTS: There have been no reports of major illnesses in Greenland lately and it was not clear which sickness Trump was referring to.

All of Greenland, which has a population of around 57,000 people, is served by the Queen Ingrid Hospital in the capital Nuuk, according to the Danish Medical Journal. The territory also has several regional health centers.

Most health care services in Greenland are free for citizens and permanent residents. This includes treatment by general practitioners, medical specialists and hospitals, health centers, prescription medicine, public dental care and home nursing care, according to the website of the Nordic Council of Ministers, which is the official body for intergovernmental cooperation in the Nordic Region.

In response to Trump’s post, Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen stressed the region’s free health care system and pointed out the differences in a jibe at the U.S. system.

“We have a public health care system where treatment is free for citizens. That is a deliberate choice — and a fundamental part of our society,” Nielsen said. “That is not how it works in the USA, where it costs money to see a doctor.”

Despite free health service, there are “major public health challenges” on the vast island, according to the Center for Public Health in Greenland.

Many of those challenges are related to undergoing “profound changes from a hunting society to a modern industrial and knowledge society” within a short period of time. Increasingly, people suffer from illnesses such as obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Anna Wangenheim, Greenland’s minister for health and persons with disabilities, recently posted an “urgent” request on her Facebook page saying the “national health service currently needs dentists for 3 different towns: Aasiaat, Paamiut, and Nanortalik.”

Despite difficult access to medical services in remote areas and a shortage of staff, notable improvements have been achieved in Greenland, which only assumed political responsibility for its own healthcare system in 1992, said Lene Seibæk, a professor at the Institute of Health and Nature at the University of Greenland.

“In 2020, life expectancy in Greenland was approximately 71 years for men and 77 years for women, representing an increase of approximately six years for men and five to six years for women since the 1990s and exceeding the global average,” Seibæk added.

Trump claims US hospital ship already headed to Greenland

“It’s on the way!!!” Trump wrote in his Truth Social post, saying one of the hospital ships already was headed to Greenland.

THE FACTS: The USNS Mercy and USNS Comfort are at a shipyard in Mobile, Alabama, according to social media posts from the shipyard showing the pair of white hospital ships alongside each other in late January. Publicly available ship tracking data show both ships are still in the shipyard.

The Comfort arrived at the shipyard in the southern state on Jan. 23 and is expected to remain there through April, according to the government contract for the work.

Repairs to the Mercy, which arrived there in August, have run past their expected completion date. Government contract records show the ship is slated for more repairs in March in a shipyard in the northwest state of Oregon.

Should either ship be rushed out, it would need additional time before being ready to deploy. The standard crew of a U.S. hospital ship does not include the full complement of medical staff needed to man the vast medical facilities, which include 12 operating rooms and 1,000 hospital beds. Normally, the ships would draw doctors, nurses, corpsmen and supplies from hospitals surrounding their home ports of either Norfolk, Virginia, or San Diego before setting sail.

Trump’s envoy claims there is a service shortage

Landry, the Louisiana governor serving as Trump’s special envoy, echoed the president’s claim Sunday on X that “many villages and small towns lack basic services that Americans often take for granted.”

Landry added that “small settlements are without permanent doctors, diagnostic tools, or specialist care — forcing residents to travel great distances for vital treatments that should be available at home.”

THE FACTS: While medical service is sometimes not physically available in all settlements of the vast territory, telemedicine plays an important role for people living remotely.

Patients in areas without the necessary health care also can be transported to the national hospital or regional facilities. In complex cases, patients can be flown to Denmark for medical treatment with the government paying for transportation and treatment.

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Rural Americans, in comparison, have long faced challenges in accessing critical health care, in part due to financial inequities and long travel times. The barriers have worsened in the past decade as more maternity wards close, pharmacies struggle to stay in business and rural hospitals and clinics brace for federal Medicaid cuts.

Since 2010, 152 rural hospitals, many in the southern U.S., have cut inpatient services or closed entirely, according to data from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The expansion of telehealth can ease some inequities, experts say, but it is not a universal solution while many rural areas face provider shortages and unreliable broadband.

Landry’s state is no exception. Most of Louisiana’s parishes are fully or partially rural and 73% of residents live in areas without enough primary care providers, 86% without enough dental providers and 93% without sufficient mental health providers, according to the state’s health department.

Grieshaber reported from Berlin, Toropin from Washington, D.C., and Shastri from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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HIGHLANDVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Two Missouri sheriff’s deputies were fatally shot, one during a traffic stop and the other hours later during a shootout with the suspect, who was also killed, authorities said.

Christian County Sheriff Brad Cole said the initial shooting happened during a traffic stop south of Highlandville on Monday in southwest Missouri, news outlets reported.

About 100 officers, deputies, and state troopers helped with the search for the suspect, Cole said. He says U.S. Marshals and FBI and ATF agents were also involved.

The suspected shooter’s truck was found abandoned several miles south near Reeds Spring and law enforcement officers searched the area nearby, Cole said. Early Tuesday, deputies approached a heat signature detected in the woods. Cole said the suspect opened fire, hitting three deputies.

One Christian County deputy was killed and two other deputies — from Christian and Webster counties — were wounded with injuries that are not considered life-threatening, Cole said. Law enforcement officers shot back, killing the suspect, he said.

Cole identified the deputy killed in the initial shooting as Deputy Gabriel Ramirez.

“Deputy Ramirez was always kind to everybody, Cole said. “He was always a friend, was always there for anybody who needed a shoulder to lean on.”

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The city is seeking providers to operate an additional 190 units of Justice-Involved Supportive Housing—affordable units paired with support services for people with mental health needs who tend to cycle between jail and homeless shelters.

The proposed site for the “Just Home” project at 1900 Seminole Ave. on the Jacobi Medical Center campus.

New York City is seeking providers to operate an additional 190 units of Justice-Involved Supportive Housing—affordable apartments paired with support services for people with mental or behavioral health needs who tend to cycle between jail, hospitals and homeless shelters.

Homeless and criminal justice advocates have been calling for the city to expand the niche program, known as JISH, as a means to reduce both the number of people behind bars and in its shelter system. Stable housing and access to mental health care is key to helping people avoid returns to jail, officials say: almost 90 percent of current JISH participants—living in 120 units across the city—had no further arrests since joining the initiative, which launched in 2015.

“Nearly 30 percent of our patients report being homeless prior to entering jail or likely to be unhoused on release,” Dr. Patsy Yang, senior vice president for Correctional Health Services, which provides health care in the city’s jails, said in a statement announcing the planned JISH expansion. “Each one deserves the chance to return safely and successfully to the community.”

City Hall released a request for proposals (RFP) earlier this month seeking operators to open the additional 190 JISH apartments, thanks to a $4.8 million funding boost included in the last budget deal. Earlier city efforts to grow the program had previously failed to take off: providers largely declined to bid on a 2019 RFP, telling City Limits the funding rates were too low to adequately provide the housing and services required.

But advocates cheered the city’s latest request, saying it’s “in line with service funding provided in comparable programs across New York City,” said Gary Jenkins, interim CEO of Urban Pathways, which runs 30 of the existing JISH apartments.

“We are thrilled to see Mayor Mamdani taking such a significant step so quickly toward closing the revolving door between jail and homelessness,” said Darren Mack, director of Freedom Agenda at the Urban Justice Center, in a statement to City Limits.

“It means so much, not just for the tenants, but for what the providers are able to do,” said Rob DeLeon, interim president and CEO at The Fortune Society, which currently operates JISH housing for roughly 60 people, where residents have access to medical and behavioral health care, medication management, job training, art programs and other resources.

The latest round of funding includes the option of a congregate model—where tenants in the program are housed within the same building run by a nonprofit, rather than “scattered-site” units rented in privately-run properties—which advocates say can offer participants a deeper sense of community and easier access to programs.

“When you’re in a congregate setting, it’s as simple as having folks come downstairs,” DeLeon said. “Or if you’re meeting with them right in their units and checking in on how they’re doing and all of those things, you don’t have very far to go to meet with a number of people that you’re serving.”

The planned 190 new apartments will bring the total number of JISH units to 390, officials said. That count includes 83 affordable rentals planned for an underused building on the Jacobi Hospital Campus in the Bronx, which will primarily house people with complex medical needs after they leave city jails.

The project, dubbed “Just Home” had spurred furious opposition from some locals, prompting former Mayor Eric Adams to pull his support for it last fall after years of planning. New Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced last month that his administration would restart the plan.

“By housing New Yorkers who are too often left on the streets or shuttled through emergency rooms, Just Home meets our housing crisis with dignity,” Mamdani said in a statement at the time.

Just Home is now expected to break ground by the end of this year or early next year, said DeLeon of Fortune, which will build and operate the facility.

Still, even with the expected expansion, the JISH network will fall short of what the city pledged in 2019 as part of its agreement to close the notorious jail complex on Rikers Island and replace it with smaller borough-based jails. That deal initially called for 500 JISH units, a nod to the important role access to housing plays in lowering the number of people behind bars.

But advocates say they’re hopeful new Mayor Mamdani will eventually reach that goal. “His messaging is really about meeting the moment, helping all New Yorkers to live lives of dignity,” said DeLeon.

“We are locked in, in this journey, this mission, to get individuals housed,” he added. “To help them to be whole and not to continue to be judged for their worst mistakes for the rest of their lives.”

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