Military raid

Mexican authorities reported on Sunday that Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, the leader of the Jalisco New Generation cartel and Mexico’s most wanted drug lord, was killed in a military raid in the central-western state of Jalisco.

According to the Defence Ministry, the military operation was conducted in the town of Tapalpa early in the morning. Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho,” was seriously injured in the operation and died while being transported by air to Mexico City. Several other members of the cartel were also killed, the Defence Ministry said.

The military forces seized various weapons, including rocket launchers, and several armoured …