{"id":82763,"date":"2026-02-23T10:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/who-was-el-mencho-and-whats-next-for-mexicos-fastest-growing-cartel\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T05:00:25","slug":"who-was-el-mencho-and-whats-next-for-mexicos-fastest-growing-cartel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/who-was-el-mencho-and-whats-next-for-mexicos-fastest-growing-cartel\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was &#8216;El Mencho&#8217; and what&#8217;s next for Mexico&#8217;s fastest-growing cartel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-128697826,width-1280,height-720,imgsize-756466,resizemode-6,overlay-toi_sw,pt-32,y_pad-600\/photo.jpg\" alt=\"Who was &#039;El Mencho&#039; and what&#039;s next for Mexico&#039;s fastest-growing cartel?\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Who was &#039;El Mencho&#039; and what&#039;s next for Mexico&#039;s fastest-growing cartel?<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Mexico\u2019s most-wanted drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as El Mencho, was killed during a government operation in Jalisco, triggering nationwide cartel violence. Founder of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel, he built one of Mexico\u2019s fastest-growing and most aggressive criminal organisations. His death is a major blow to the group but raises fears of fragmentation, succession struggles and escalating \u201cnarcoterrorism\u201d as rivals and factions vie for control.<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/rest-of-world\/who-was-el-mencho-and-whats-next-for-mexicos-fastest-growing-cartel\/articleshow\/128697796.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Who was &#039;El Mencho&#039; and what&#039;s next for Mexico&#039;s fastest-growing cartel? Mexico\u2019s most-wanted drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as El Mencho, was killed during a government operation in Jalisco, triggering nationwide cartel violence. Founder of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel, he built one of Mexico\u2019s fastest-growing and most aggressive criminal organisations. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":82764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}