U.S. and Mexico officials admitted that the intelligence exchange reinforced the operation in which the El Mencho cartel baron was fatally injured
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American intelligence agencies provided key information on a Mexican operation that led to the death of 1 of the most powerful drug barons in the country, reported many media.
Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as El Mencho, died as a consequence of the injuries sustained after he fell victim to an attack in Tapalpa, West Jalisco, reported the Mexican Ministry of Defense. The cartel responded with force across the country.
Mexican officials reported that the United States had supplied ‘complementary’ information on operations against Jalisco fresh Generation Cartel (CJNG), the main trader of fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine on the American market.
White home press secretary Karolina Leavitt confirmed the U.S. intelligence participation in a post published on X, in which it was informed that ‘main objective’ both governments remained ‘eliminated’.
Mexico's defence Secretary Ricardo Trevilla Trejo said military intelligence located Cervantes, tracking down his partner's associate.
American sources quoted by Reuters, "New York Times" and another media reported that the information provided by the CIA through the Pentagon-led Joint Interagency Task Force on Cartel Combat (JITF-CC) had ‘key meaning’.
JITF-CC, established last month, reportedly uses American experience in combating the mediate East rebellion to fight cartels.
The reports did not specify how this information was obtained.
Sources attribute CIA manager John Ratcliffe to extending the anti-cartel program set up by president Joe Biden to recruit informants in the field.
erstwhile U.S. authoritative told Reuters agency that the Mexican government had received "a detailed package with information on El Mencho".
U.S. president Donald Trump pressed Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum to step up the fight against drug trafficking, threatening a possible direct U.S. intervention in Mexico territory.
CJNG members retaliated the death of their leader by entering shootings with safety forces in the states of Jalisco, Michoacan, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas, Colima and Oaxaca.
Operations at airports in Puerto Vallarta and Guadalajara were disrupted by the threat of violence.
The cartel, founded in 2009, is considered 1 of the richest and most violent in Mexico.
It is known that he funds his own well-equipped peculiar forces, whose members have reportedly gained experience in fighting drones, fighting on the side of Kiev in the conflict in Ukraine.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/632951-cia-intelligence-mexico-kingpin/
