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On Sunday, February 22nd, 2026, a major Mexican drug lord, Nemesio Oseguera (“El Muncho”) was killed in a bilateral military operation in Tapalpa, Jalisco. Reported by the country’s Defense Department, this death has created a widespread impact as one of the most significant blows to organized crime. Since President Donald Trump’s crackdown on drug cartels, operations like this with US intelligence support have nearly gone viral.
As a former police officer, Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes was the main leader of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG). This supplier provided most doses of fentanyl to the United States, carrying a $15 million U.S. bounty, to be exact. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), more than 47 million fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills and 10,000 pounds of powder were seized in 2025, with numbers increasing every year.
Since taking over for Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel, who was arrested in 2016 and is currently facing a life sentence at ADX Florence, Colorado, Nemesio Oseguera grew the CJNG from a local criminal group to a global trafficking organization.
After 15 years of growth, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau explains the death of Oseguera, one of the “bloodiest and most ruthless drug kingpins,” as “a great development for Mexico, the US, Latin America, and around the world. The good guys are stronger than the bad guys.”