{"id":1248,"date":"2026-02-24T06:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/mexican-drug-cartel-boss-el-mencho-tracked-through-romantic-partner\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T06:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:24:06","slug":"mexican-drug-cartel-boss-el-mencho-tracked-through-romantic-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/mexican-drug-cartel-boss-el-mencho-tracked-through-romantic-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican drug cartel boss \u2018El Mencho\u2019 tracked through romantic partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Killing of Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader sparks wave of violence across western Mexico<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Analysis: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/23\/mexico-trump-cartel-boss-killing\">Mexico faces uphill battle to appease kingpin Trump<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/23\/who-was-el-mencho-drug-cartel-boss-killed-mexico\">Who was El Mencho?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mexican authorities tracked down and killed \u201cEl Mencho\u201d, one of the world\u2019s most wanted drug traffickers, by following a romantic partner to his safe house near a picturesque mountain town, the country\u2019s defence secretary has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference, officials provided the first details about the operation that led to the death of the leader of Mexico\u2019s most powerful organised crime group, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/23\/el-mencho-mexican-drug-cartel-boss-killing-violence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Killing of Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader sparks wave of violence across western Mexico Analysis: Mexico faces uphill battle to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uttarakhand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doontv.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}