UPDATED: CJNG Cartel Unleashes Chaos at Guadalajara Airport and in Puerto Vallarta After Leader ‘El Mencho’ Killed in Military Raid – Reports of American Tourists Taken Hostage (SHOCKING VIDEOS)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/breaking-cjng-cartel-unleashes-chaos-guadalajara-airport-after/

Members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) stormed Guadalajara International Airport on Sunday in apparent retaliation for the death of their notorious leader, Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes.

The attack has led to widespread panic, with videos showing passengers and airport staff fleeing for cover amid reports of gunfire and armed confrontations.

The violence comes just hours after Mexican authorities confirmed El Mencho’s elimination in a targeted operation in Tapalpa, Jalisco, reportedly conducted with U.S. intelligence assistance. Continue…

New Details Released on Gunman Charged With Killing Genius Astrophysicist at His Remote Home

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New details have been released on the gunman who has been charged with killing a Caltech astrophysicist who was labeled as a genius by his colleagues.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, astrophysicist Carl Grillmair, 67, was shot in his torso by a gunman who approached him on his porch on February 16.

Freddy Snyder, 29, has now been charged with Grillmair’s murder and is being held on a $2 million bail.

A new investigative report by The New York Post has revealed that Snyder was released from jail two months before the murder took place after a judge released him under California’s unnecessary prosecution law.

Per The New York Post: Continue…

Revolutionary U.S. Ambassador Bill White Is Turning Belgium Upside Down – Defending Freedom, Confronting Socialists, and Challenging the Welfare State While Trump Backs Leaders Like Bart De Wever

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In a bold, no-holds-barred display of American grit, US Ambassador to Belgium Bill White – handpicked by President Donald J. Trump – is shaking the foundations of Europe’s socialist paradise.

White, a true patriot who’s spent his career honoring US military heroes, isn’t mincing words or playing nice with the corrupt elites in Brussels. He’s calling out antisemitism, banning Hitler-comparing leftists, ripping apart Belgium’s bloated welfare state, and shining a light on real conservative warriors like Bart De Wever.

And get this – Trump himself stepped in to back De Wever on the explosive Russian assets debacle. This is diplomacy on steroids, folks! Continue…

El Salvador President Bukele Defends His Eradication of Gangs

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El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, a Trump ally, has defended his anti-crime policies, which transformed El Salvador from one of the most dangerous countries in the world to one of the safest in the Americas.

“The war of incentives is never going to be won,” he said. “So we understood, by force and with blows, that the only way was to go after the gang member and arrest him.”

His Territorial Control Plan transitioned from traditional policing to a massive military-led crackdown following a spike in violence in March 2022.

Under a declared State of Exception, Bukele imposed a “régimen de excepción” that suspended constitutional rights, including the right to legal counsel, freedom of assembly, and the requirement for a warrant before arrest.

Laws were changed to allow children as young as 12 to be tried as adults for gang crimes and to permit mass trials in which hundreds of defendants are processed simultaneously.

He constructed the CECOT (Center for the Confinement of Terrorism), a high-tech mega-prison designed to hold 40,000 inmates in austere conditions, severing their contact with the outside world. As of early 2026, more than 94,000 people have been arrested.

In Bukele’s words, the way to deal with the gang member is “not to punish him, but to get him out of society. He has to be out of the equation.”

He argues the program’s effectiveness is reflected in the numbers. Before the crackdown, the homicide rate was 103 per 100,000. Now it is 1.3 per 100,000. Gangs once controlled 80 percent of the country.

The government has largely retaken control. Business owners used to pay extortion, or “rent,” but since the gangs were locked up, this has sharply declined. Continue…

Insanity: Professor Gets Rid of Finals, Assigns Editing Of “LGBTQ+” Wikipedia Pages Instead

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In the latest lunacy on campus, according to Campus Reform, “A professor at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) has assigned students an alternative to traditional finals—creating and editing Wikipedia pages about ‘queer and trans people of color.”

Excellence and quality education continue to be replaced by Woke indoctrination at Berkeley.

The ‘Ethnic Studies’ professor had students defend and expand on Wikipedia articles related to ‘LGBTQ’ history and transgenderism, according to the report.

Somehow, this insanity is considered worth the price of tuition at Berkeley despite the fact that it does nothing to prepare students for real life. Continue…

French Modelling Agent and Alleged Serial Rapist Jean-Luc Brunel Was Going to Testify Against Jeffrey Epstein Before He Was Found Dead in His Cell in La Santé Prison

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/french-modelling-agent-alleged-serial-rapist-jean-luc/

Brunel contemplated flipping on Epstein.

We often hear analysts, politicians or victims complaining that Ghislaine Maxwell ended up being the only member of the Jeffrey Epstein trafficking ring to face justice.

But this complaint, while it has merit, is not completely accurate, because it ignores the sordid saga of French modeling agent and alleged serial rapist Jean-Luc Brunel.

Late Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre said he ‘raped [her] repeatedly in New York and on Epstein’s island’.

From her 2015 testimony: ‘He was another of Epstein’s powerful friends who had many contacts with young girls throughout the world. In fact, his only similarity with Epstein and the only link to their friendship appeared to be that Brunel could get dozens of underage girls and feed Epstein’s (and Maxwell’s) strong appetite for sex with minors’.

Additionally, she said that ‘Jeffrey Epstein has told me that he has slept with over 1,000 of Brunel’s girls, and everything that I have seen confirms this claim’.

In her posthumous memoir ‘Nobody’s Girl’, Giuffre added: “I’ll never forget how Epstein and Brunel looked at one another as they abused girls side by side. They were truly gloating, taking a mutual malignant pleasure in our misfortune.”

Now, the DOJ-released files show Brunel contemplated flipping and testifying against Epstein, before he was found ‘suicided’ in his La Santé prison cell. Continue…

France Summons U.S. Ambassador After Washington Condemns Killing of Conservative Activist, Insists There Are ‘No Lessons to Learn’

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France announced Sunday it will summon U.S. Ambassador Charles Kushner after Washington publicly condemned the killing of French conservative activist Quentin Deranque.

Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said the U.S. Embassy’s comments about the case amounted to interference in a matter that “concerns the national community.”

He added that France “rejects any instrumentalisation of this tragedy” and insisted the country has “no lessons to learn” from what he described as an “international reactionary movement.”

Barrot said he plans to raise additional concerns with Ambassador Kushner, including U.S. sanctions imposed on former EU commissioner Thierry Breton and French judge Nicolas Guillou.

He described the sanctions as “unjustified and unjustifiable,” while Macron has reportedly written to President Trump requesting that certain sanctions on European citizens be lifted.

Deranque was beaten to death during a clash with far-left thugs, an attack that has sparked nationwide outrage and renewed debate over political violence in France. Continue…

White House Drops Epic Eagle Meme on Trudeau After USA Crushes Canada in Olympic Hockey

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In both a patriotic flex and savage burn, the White House went viral on Sunday for dropping a hilarious response to former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s defiant X post from a year ago.

The post came shortly after Team USA’s triumphant beatdown of Canada in men’s hockey at the Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina, Italy.

The original tweet from Trudeau, dated February 21, 2025, read, “You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game.”

The White House, now featuring a bio proclaiming, “The Golden Age of America Begins Right Now,” replied without words, simply sharing an image of a bald eagle gripping a Canada goose on the ice. Continue…

Disgraced Former Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson Fled Britain to Posh Mental Health Clinic in Switzerland When Her Epstein Emails Were Released

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/disgraced-former-duchess-york-sarah-ferguson-fled-britain/

Like her ex-husband Andrew, Fergie’s life crumbled for her close ties to late pedophile Epstein.

Britain continues to reel over the ongoing release by the US DOJ of millions of documents regarding the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Besides the ex-ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, and disgraced former Prince Andrew, his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, is also watching her whole life crumble over her close relationship with the convicted sex offender.

And it was hard on Fergie, as news arose that she checked herself into the most expensive ‘wellness clinic’ in the world. Continue…

US Intel Aided Mexican Special Forces In "El Mencho" Kill As Spillover Risks Rise

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The Sunday killing of Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes, the leader of Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), by Mexican security forces unleashed coordinated cartel retaliation attacks, driving rapid instability across Guadalajara (Jalisco's capital) and spilling into high-traffic resort areas, including Puerto Vallarta.

CNN reported that the US provided intelligence support to Mexican Army Special Forces, aided by aircraft and the National Guard's Immediate Reaction Force, during the operation to capture Oseguera. The operation, however, devolved into a fierce firefight with CJNG operatives and El Mencho that ultimately resulted in his death.

Almost immediately after El Mencho's death, Guadalajara, Mexico's third-largest city and the capital of Jalisco State, plunged into instant chaos as CJNG foot soldiers sparked narco-terrorism operations. Continue…

Greenland Prime Minister Rejects Hospital Ship Offered By Trump

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Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said he does not support President Donald Trump’s decision to send a hospital ship to Greenland.

“It’s going to be a no thank you from here,” according to a translation of Nielsen’s Facebook post on Feb. 22.

“President Trump’s idea to send an American hospital ship here to Greenland is noted. But we have a public health system where treatment is free for citizens. It’s a deliberate choice. And a basic part of our society. It’s not like that in the United States, where it costs money to go to the doctor.”

Nielsen said Greenland is “always open to dialogue and collaboration” but requested Trump “talk to us now instead of just coming up with more or less random outbursts on social media.” Continue…

EU To Freeze Trade Deal With US After Supreme Court Overturns Trump Tariffs

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/eu-freeze-trade-deal-us-after-supreme-court-overturns-trump-tariffs

Update (9:40am ET): In response to the EU's decision to freeze ratification of Trump's landmark deal, the US president has come out swinging and on Truth Social threatened any countries that "play games" with the supreme court decision that they "will be met with a much higher tariff." It just isn't clear what the procedure for these much higher tariffs - aside from Section 122 which is limited to 150 days - will be now that IEEPA has been ruled unconstitutional.

Earlier:

In the aftermath of Friday's SCOTUS decision to reverse Trump's tariff policy, one lingering question is what happens to the bilateral trade deals Trump struck with various countries (and which supposedly would lead to hundreds of billions of fresh investment into the US). Well, in the case of the EU we no longer have to wonder:

The morning, the European Union said it would freeze the ratification process of its trade deal with the US and was seeking more details from the Trump administration on its new tariff program. Zeljana Zovko, the lead trade negotiator in the European People’s Party group on the US deal, said in an interview with Bloomberg that “we have no other option” but to delay the approval process to seek clarity on the situation. Continue…

Travel Chaos Erupts In US East As Blizzard Slams Major Cities

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Blizzard conditions are expected from Delaware into southern New England, and travel will be "extremely treacherous" to "nearly impossible" today, according to the National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center.

Expect travel delays along the I-95 corridor, as well as flight cancellations at airports from the Mid-Atlantic to the Northeast.

Nearly 5,600 flights in, out, or within the US were cancelled at the start of the week, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware. Continue…

Alberta And Switzerland To Vote On Immigration Control Amid Growing Backlash

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/alberta-and-switzerland-vote-immigration-control-amid-growing-backlash

As the world watches unchecked immigration fundamentally transform the West, a growing backlash has gained a foothold - and it's made it to the ballot box.

In Alberta, Canada, Premier Danielle Smith announced a referendum this fall to decide whether the province should limit the number of new international, temporary foreign workers and asylum seekers - as Alberta seeks to take charge of the issue amid a surge of proud Canadians who do not embrace change.

As Reuters notes;

The move, announced by Premier Danielle Smith in a televised address on Thursday evening, represents an attempt by Alberta to wrest control of a key issue from the federal government. Immigration policy in Canada is primarily the responsibility of Ottawa, not the provinces.

It is also an attempt by Smith to ward off a simmering Alberta separatism movement, which has threatened Canadian unity as Prime Minister Mark Carney makes efforts to improve relations with western, resource-rich provinces in the face of economic challenges posed by U.S. President Donald Trump's trade policy.

Giving citizens a say on immigration policy is the government's way of giving Albertans hope that the Canadian federation can work, Smith told reporters on Friday.

Smith has also blamed Alberta's financial woes on immigrants - noting that a surge of over 600,000 migrants over the past five years, putting Alberta's population over 5 million in 2025 - has put a strain on provincial resources.

"Throwing the doors wide open to anyone and everyone across the globe has flooded our classrooms, emergency rooms and social support systems with far too many people, far too quickly," she said.

Pissed Swiss Want Population Cap Continue…

Saudis Lead Arab Fury After Huckabee Floats 'Greater Israel' Vision

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Blowback was swift across the Arab world after US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee declared it would be "fine" if Israel took over the entire Middle East, words featured in a Tucker Carlson interview from Jerusalem published days ago.

Governments from Palestine, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Oman issued statements condemning the comments, joined by both the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Arab League - a rare moment of quick unity for these countries.

In a joint statement they "express[ed] their strong condemnation and profound concern regarding the statements made by the United States Ambassador to Israel, in which he indicated that it would be acceptable for Israel to exercise control over territories belonging to Arab states, including the occupied West Bank."

Most notably close American ally Saudi Arabia was among the first to blast Huckabee's provocative statement and perspective. Saudi Arabia called it "reckless" and "irresponsible".

Jordan too in a rare moment lashed out at Washington: Continue…