{"id":15608,"date":"2026-02-24T13:39:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15608"},"modified":"2026-02-24T13:39:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:39:04","slug":"nyt-how-mexican-forces-tracked-and-killed-el-mencho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15608","title":{"rendered":"NYT: How Mexican forces tracked and killed &#8220;El Mencho&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From the NY Times report. Takes 4-5 minutes to read so hit the link. Beside the standard weapons the Cartel members had rocket launchers&#8230;. The head of the security forces wept while talking about the National Guard members who were killed.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/23\/world\/americas\/el-mencho-mexico-cartel-military-raid.html?campaign_id=2&amp;emc=edit_th_20260224&amp;instance_id=171543&amp;nl=today%27s-headlines&amp;regi_id=87616590&amp;segment_id=215725&amp;user_id=1c634a87d1656cc79c8753416632bbac\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/23\/world\/americas\/el-mencho-mexico-cartel-military-raid.html?campaign_id=2&amp;emc=edit_th_20260224&amp;instance_id=171543&amp;nl=today%27s-headlines&amp;regi_id=87616590&amp;segment_id=215725&amp;user_id=1c634a87d1656cc79c8753416632bbac\">Top security officials revealed details of the operation that led to the death of Mexico\u2019s most wanted drug cartel leader.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During Monday\u2019s news conference, Ms. Sheinbaum quietly reminded General Trevilla to keep details sparse regarding the intelligence on Mr. Oseguera and his inner circle. The general noted that while Mexican officials spearheaded the intelligence on Mr. Oseguera\u2019s partner and his team, \u201cadditional information\u201d provided by U.S. authorities helped pinpoint his exact location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*******************<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In all, Mexican authorities said they arrested 70 people and killed 34 suspected cartel members in the chaos across the country on Sunday, while 25 members of the national guard were among the dead. Local news outlets reported a civilian killed was a pregnant woman who had been caught in a shootout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the NY Times report. Takes 4-5 minutes to read so hit the link. Beside the standard weapons the Cartel members had rocket launchers&#8230;. The head of the security forces wept while talking about the National Guard members who were killed. Top security officials revealed details of the operation that led to the death of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15609,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15608\/revisions\/15609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}