Mexican authorities tracked down and killed “El Mencho”, one of the world’s most wanted drug traffickers, by following a romantic partner to his safe house near a picturesque mountain town, the country’s defence secretary has revealed. In a press conference, officials provided the first details about the operation that led to the death of the leader of Mexico’s most powerful organised crime group, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). The raid on Sunday prompted a surge of retaliatory violence by cartel gunmen, which all but shut down entire areas of western Mexico. The 59-year-old cartel leader, whose real name is
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