Many Americans have moved to Puerto Vallarta for retirement, and now it’s the battlefield for a conflict between the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the Mexican government. Anne Tergesen reports in The Wall Street Journal:
The violence in the Puerto Vallarta area is unnerving America’s community of expat retirees in Mexico, a destination popular with the growing number of people retiring abroad.
The Pacific coast tourist city is home to thousands of American retirees. They include Bill Huebsch, a 79-year-old New Yorker who spends about two months a year in nearby Nuevo Nayarit, also known as Nuevo Vallarta, where he purchased a condo with his late wife, Joanne, in 2012.
Huebsch had just checked out at the supermarket when the store locked its hurricane gates to protect customers from the threat of gunmen from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, who went on a violent rampage on Sunday after the Mexican military killed their chieftain, Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera.
Three hours later, the store let customers leave. On his ride home, Huebsch passed trucks and a bus the cartel members had set on fire.
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