{"id":18831,"date":"2026-02-23T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T07:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=18831"},"modified":"2026-02-23T07:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T07:00:30","slug":"top-cartel-leader-el-mencho-reportedly-killed-as-gunmen-set-20-roads-ablaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/02\/23\/top-cartel-leader-el-mencho-reportedly-killed-as-gunmen-set-20-roads-ablaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Cartel Leader El Mencho reportedly killed as gunmen set 20 roads ablaze"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: The Mexican military has announced that Nemesio &#8220;El Mencho&#8221; Oseguera, one of the country&#8217;s most powerful drug traffickers, was killed in a military operation.<br>The French news agency reports today, following Oseguera&#8217;s death, armed individuals in Mexico ignited vehicles on the roads, blocking 20 highways and sparking a wave of violence.<br>In a statement, the Mexican military revealed that Oseguera, the 59-year-old leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, was wounded in Topalpa and died during transport via helicopter to a hospital.<br>In retaliation for this event, armed individuals set fire to trucks in Jalisco, blocking 20 major roads to traffic.<br>Reports indicate that the Mexican military had placed a reward of $15 million for the capture of this cartel leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: The Mexican military has announced that Nemesio &#8220;El Mencho&#8221; Oseguera, one of the country&#8217;s most powerful drug traffickers, was killed in a military operation.The French news agency reports today, following Oseguera&#8217;s death, armed individuals in Mexico ignited vehicles on the roads, blocking 20 highways and sparking a wave of violence.In a statement, the Mexican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18833,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18831\/revisions\/18833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}