{"id":83262,"date":"2026-02-23T19:30:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/killing-of-mexican-drug-cartel-boss-el-mencho-triggers-wave-of-violence\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T19:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:00:28","slug":"killing-of-mexican-drug-cartel-boss-el-mencho-triggers-wave-of-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/killing-of-mexican-drug-cartel-boss-el-mencho-triggers-wave-of-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing of Mexican drug cartel boss \u2018El Mencho\u2019 triggers wave of violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/be4c742adb5764109bcbe1291065abb2f5b37dcf\/211_0_2105_1684\/master\/2105.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=b0886b889a79ed6a80224b22488c594f\" alt=\"Killing of Mexican drug cartel boss \u2018El Mencho\u2019 triggers wave of violence\" 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\">Killing of Mexican drug cartel boss \u2018El Mencho\u2019 triggers wave of violence<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Schools close and flights suspended after military raid kills Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader Nemesio Rub\u00e9n Oseguera Cervantes\u2022 Who was El Mencho, the former police officer who co-founded an ultraviolent cartel in Mexico?Whole areas of western Mexico have been all but shut down after a surge in cartel violence sparked by a military raid that killed one of the world\u2019s most wanted drug traffickers, known as \u201cEl Mencho\u201d.Schools were closed in several Mexican states, and foreign governments warned their citizens to stay inside after the drug lord, whose real name is Nemesio Rub\u00e9n Oseguera Cervantes, was declared dead on Sunday. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/23\/el-mencho-mexican-drug-cartel-boss-killing-violence\" 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 Killing of Mexican drug cartel boss \u2018El Mencho\u2019 triggers wave of violence Schools close and flights suspended after military raid kills Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader Nemesio Rub\u00e9n Oseguera Cervantes\u2022 Who was El Mencho, the former police officer who co-founded an ultraviolent cartel in Mexico?Whole areas of western Mexico have been all but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":83263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83262","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\/83262","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=83262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}