Powerful cartel unleashes wave of violence
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Documents reveal the fall of “El Mencho" was the culmination of an aggressive “total elimination" strategy pursued by the U.S. against the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).
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.
Authorities used the location of a woman who was with Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, the drug kingpin known as "El Mencho," to find him.
Law enforcement is monitoring potential increases in violence, coercion or debt-collection activity in domestic trafficking corridors after cartel head "El Mencho" was killed Sunday.
Oseguera, 59, the mastermind of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) died in custody after being injured in a military operation by Mexican special forces in the town of Tapalpa in Mexico's Jalisco state, according to Mexico's defense ministry.
President Donald Trump had put Mexico on notice: Go after the country’s powerful drug lords, or he would.
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A day after the Mexican army killed the country’s most powerful drug lord, the picturesque town where it happened was a study in contrasts