India, Feb. 23 -- The killing of Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, better known as El Mencho, has sent shockwaves through Mexico's criminal underworld. As the head of the powerful Jalisco New ...

After spending years evading authorities worldwide, a powerful Mexican cartel leader was killed during a military operation, Mexican officials announced on Sunday, Feb. 22. Nemesio Rubén Oseguera ...

Popular tourist spots in Mexico were caught up in a wave of retaliatory violence after drug lord "El Mencho" was killed.

The Secretary General of National Defense, General Ricardo Trevilla Trejo, informed that Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho”, was located thanks to a meeting he had in Tapalpa, Jalisco, with ...

El Mencho's death marks a pivotal moment in Mexico's cartel violence, igniting nationwide chaos and raising questions about ...

Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias "El Mencho", led the CJNG to global cartel power. After his death, there is violence, arson attacks and blockades in Mexico.

A sculpture of a horse trampling a dragon sits at the top of the Cabañas La Loma complex in Tapalpa, Mexico. (Felix Marquez / For The Times) The most wanted man in Mexico was hiding out next to a ...

Security chief Omar García Harfuch confirms the pact under which El Mencho provided ‘funding and personnel resources’ to the Guzmán faction. The DEA, videos, and even Google Maps had pointed to the ag ...

President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo has publicly commended the nation’s security forces following the operation that resulted in the death of the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). In a ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Adriana Marin is a lecturer in International Relations at ...

Experts say cartels echo others such as Italian mafiosi who test religious boundaries by looking to Catholic saints to justify criminal pursuits.