Cartel leader killed

TWENTY-FIVE members of Mexico’s National Guard were left dead in Jalisco in six separate attacks after the killing of cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, according to security secretary Omar Garcia Harfuch.

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Burnt buses on a closed street in Zapopan, Mexico, after a security operation in Jalisco saw cartel boss Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as 'El Mencho' killed

Oseguera Cervantes, known as El Mencho, was the boss of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. It is one of the fastest growing criminal networks in Mexico, notorious for trafficking fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine to the United States and staging brazen attacks against government officials who challenged it.