US Intelligence Helped Mexico in Raid That Killed ‘El Mencho,’ White House Confirms

The cartel leader was killed in a Mexican government operation on Sunday, leading to retaliatory attacks by cartel members around the nation.
US Intelligence Helped Mexico in Raid That Killed ‘El Mencho,’ White House Confirms
A poster at the Justice Department in Washington on March 11, 2020. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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The White House confirmed that the United States aided the Mexican government’s operation to kill cartel leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes on Sunday.

“The United States provided intelligence support to the Mexican government in order to assist with an operation in Talpalpa, Jalisco, Mexico, in which Nemesio Ruben ‘El Mencho’ Oseguera Cervantes, an infamous drug lord and leader within the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, was eliminated,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote in an X post on Sunday evening.

Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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