WASHINGTON: A new US-military-led task force specializing in intelligence collection on drug cartels played a role in the Mexican military raid on Sunday that killed the Mexican drug lord known as \u2018El Mencho,\u2019 \u200ba US defense official told Reuters.<\/p>\n
The Joint Interagency Task Force-Counter Cartel, which involves multiple US government agencies, was formally launched last month with the goal of mapping out networks of drug cartel members on both sides of the US-Mexico border, US officials said.<\/p>\n
The US official, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, did not offer further details on any information that the US-military-led task force may have offered Mexican authorities. The official stressed the raid itself was a Mexican military operation.<\/p>\n
A former US official, speaking on condition of anonymity without referring specifically to the task force, said the US compiled a detailed target package for El Mencho and provided it to the Mexican government for its operation.<\/p>\n
This detailed dossier included information provided by US law enforcement, US intelligence, the former \u200cofficial said.<\/p>\n
The former official \u200cadded El Mencho was very high, if not at the top, of a \u200blist \u200cof US \u2060targets in \u200bMexico.<\/p>\n
Mexican \u2060authorities killed drug lord Nemesio Oseguera, commonly known as \u2018El Mencho,\u2019 during an operation designed to capture him in the western state of Jalisco. The operation set off a wave of violence, with torched cars and gunmen blocking highways in more than half a dozen states.<\/p>\n
Mexico\u2019s defense ministry said US authorities had provided \u201ccomplementary information,\u201d but offered no details. A Mexican government source familiar with the operation said the Mexican government designed and executed it, and that no US military personnel were physically involved.<\/p>\n
An ex-police officer, Oseguera, 60, was the shadowy leader of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), an international criminal enterprise widely viewed as one of Mexico\u2019s most powerful. He managed to evade arrest for \u2060years despite a $15 million bounty from the US for information leading to his arrest or capture.<\/p>\n
The kingpin\u2019s \u200ckilling notches a major victory for Mexico\u2019s war on drug cartels that are \u200cresponsible for smuggling billions of dollars in cocaine and fentanyl into the US<\/p>\n
President \u200bDonald Trump\u2019s administration has waged a pressure campaign on Mexican President \u200cClaudia Sheinbaum\u2019s government to ramp up its crackdown on drug trafficking, including US threats to intervene directly in Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WASHINGTON: A new US-military-led task force specializing in intelligence collection on drug cartels played a role in the Mexican military raid on Sunday that killed the Mexican drug lord known as \u2018El Mencho,\u2019 \u200ba US defense official told Reuters. The Joint Interagency Task Force-Counter Cartel, which involves multiple US government agencies, was formally launched last …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":94133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94135,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94123\/revisions\/94135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}