Mexico’s Most Wanted Drug Boss Dead After Trump Threats

Drug Enforcement Administration/Getty Images Mexican forces killed the country’s most powerful drug boss amid pressure from President Donald Trump to curb the flow of narcotics to the U.S. Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, or “El Mencho,” the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, was killed in an operation at the cartel’s base in Tapalpa, Mexico’s Secretariat of National Defense announced Sunday, adding that it received complementary information from U.S. authorities. American authorities had put up a reward of up to $15 million for information about Oseguera, 59, who had been indicted several times in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, most recently for conspiracy and distribution of controlled substances for unlawful importation into the U.S. Read more at The Daily Beast.