by Matt Agorist,The Free Thought Project:
(Covert Action Magazine) On February 22, 2026, the Mexican military mounted an operation,assisted by the CIA, that killed Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, the 59-year-old head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) who had a $15 million bounty on his head.
“El Mencho” [Source:es.wired.com]
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The New York Timesfurther quoted from a Mexican security analyst whoclaimedthat the killing of “El Mencho” was “undoubtedly the most important blow that has been dealt to drug trafficking in Mexico since drug trafficking existed in Mexico.”[1]
This latter assessment is put in doubt by the fact that, going back to the days of Pablo Escobar, the strategy of killing drug kingpins has done nothing to curtail the drug demand patterns and underlying structural inequalities fueling the growth of the worldwide drug trade.[2]
Additionally, we know that many of the weapons used by drug cartels that foment violence in Mexico come from the U.S. military.
Pablo Escobar’s body being lowered from the rooftop where he was killed by Colombian state security forces, assisted by the CIA on December 2, 1993. But Escobar’s killing did little to curtail the drug trade out of Colombia, which expanded markedly after the Clinton and Bush administrations instituted theill-conceived Plan Colombia. [Source:themobmuseum.org]
Two weeks before the killing of “El Mencho,” a consortium of journalists released areportdetailing that about half the high-powered .50-caliber cartridges Mexican authorities have seized from cartels since 2012 were traced to an ammunition factory outside Kansas City, Missouri, owned by the U.S. government, the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant,the largest manufacturerof rifle rounds used by the American military.
Source: SGT Report
