GUADALAJARA, Mexico — Mexico’s most powerful drug kingpin, the head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, was killed by Mexican security forces on Sunday, Mexican defense officials said. Security forces returned fire, killing four members of the cartel and seriously wounding three others who later died. Nobody knows.”Over more than a decade, El Mencho evaded repeated attempts by Mexican security forces to capture him. Security forces struggled to track him down in the remote, rugged terrain where he often hid, protected by a huge security detail. In 2015, another operation resulted in cartel gunmen shooting down a Mexican military helicopter, killing three soldiers.

Source: Washington Post February 22, 2026 22:50 UTC