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LatinNews Daily - 23 February 2026
MEXICO: Top drug kingpin killed
On 22 February Mexico’s defence ministry (Defensa) confirmed that Nemesio ‘El Mencho’ Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, the leader of the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), the country’s most powerful drug cartel and one of the most wanted drug traffickers in the world, had been killed during a security operation carried out in the western state of Jalisco.
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