There were fears US citizens in Mexico could be targeted after the country’s Ministry of Defense confirmed the US provided intelligence and other unspecified support in the military operation resulting in the death of Oseguera in the mountains of Jalisco, from where he had run his drug operation for decades. He added it was his presidential predecessor, Enrique Pena Neto, who had asked for the US to help capture and extradite notorious kingpin El Chapo, who was convicted of murder and drug trafficking in a Brooklyn federal court in 2019 and is currently serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison in Colorado. Gonzalez Valencia, know as “La Jefa” or The Boss, is in charge of the cartel’s finances, and was convicted of financial crimes in 2023, but granted early release in February 2025, according to Mexico’s Secretariat of the Interior.
Author: Isabel Vincent
Published at: 2026-02-23 23:09:36
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