How rendezvous with girlfriend led to violent end for Mexico’s most-wanted drug kingpin

SCMP · 2026-02-24
How rendezvous with girlfriend led to violent end for Mexico’s most-wanted drug kingpin

A girlfriend of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, the powerful leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel who was killed by the Mexican military, was key to finding him in Tapalpa, a picturesque village of holiday homes in western Mexico. The 59-year-old Oseguera, nicknamed “El Mencho”, was wounded in a