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General Édgar Luis Villegas of Mexico's Secretary of Defense has confirmed the death of Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel Villarreal during a military operation in the limits of Zapopan and Guadalajara in the Mexican state of Jalisco.
The Army reported that during the operation the cartel capo and his men attempted to evade arrest by firing assault rifles, which killed one soldier and wounding another. The military responded to the aggression by killing one of the most powerful leaders of the Sinaloa cartel.
During the operation, which involved more than 120 troops, the Army arrested Irán Francisco Quiñones Gastélum, identified by SEDENA as "Nacho" Coronel's most trusted right hand man.
Nacho Coronel moved back and forth between two two houses used as safe houses, located in the Colinas de San Javier area of Guadalajara. He moved around the area accompanied by only Quiñones Gastelum to maintain a low profile and not attract attention.
Coronel was a native of Durango and started as a drug trafficker with Amado Carrillo Fuentes, alias "The Lord of Heavens." After the death of the latter he united with with Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán and Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada García.
"Nacho" Coronel was in control of the western part of Mexico, particularly Colima, Jalisco, Nayarit, and parts of Michocan as well as trafficking cocaine up the Pacific Coast.
The U.S. Office of International Affairs, narcotics and the FBI offered a reward of five million dollars for "Nacho" Coronel.
