The killing of one of Mexico’s most powerful cartel leaders set off a wave of coordinated violence that left at least 25 members of the Mexican National Guard dead and plunged several western states into days of unrest.
Mexican authorities confirmed that Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, widely known as El Mencho, was killed during a military operation in the mountainous municipality of Tapalpa in Jalisco state. Oseguera Cervantes led the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, or CJNG, an organization that rose over the past decade to become one of the most heavily armed and territorially expansive criminal groups in the country.
