When Nashville medical student Aimen Choudhary and her friends went snorkeling off the coast of Puerto Vallarta on Saturday, February 21st, they didn’t expect to return to the Mexican city’s sky full of smoke and helicopters.
Choudhary, a 27-year-old student at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, had met up with some of her girlfriends for a vacation in the city after they hadn’t seen each other in a long time. They arrived at the Fiesta Americana resort in Puerto Vallarta on Friday afternoon. On Saturday morning, she said they left their resort early in the morning to go on a snorkeling excursion.
“Around lunchtime is when people started talking. … They had told us there’s civil unrest going on in the region,” she told WSMV4. “…As we got closer to coming back to the port, we had started seeing smoke.”
What they didn’t know is that the same day, Mexico’s army, backed by National Guard military police, special forces and aircraft, was on a top-secret mission to find the country’s most-wanted cartel leader, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, otherwise known as “El Mencho.”
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Source: WSMV
