00:01From a simple vendor to the most powerful cartel leader in Mexico, with a $15 million U.S. bounty on
00:09his head,
00:10Nemesio Oseguera, known as El Mencho, made headlines after a federal operation ended his life
00:18and sparked a wave of violence and road blockades across Mexico.
00:23So who is he, and what do we know about this name?
00:27El Mencho, 59, led one of the most dangerous criminal networks in the world.
00:34He moved tons of cocaine from Colombia through Ecuador to Mexico's Pacific coast using speedboats and submarines.
00:44He was known for his military tactics, deploying hundreds of heavily armed, well-trained gunmen,
00:51including former Special Forces members from Colombia.
00:54Rarely seen in public, he operated from heavily fortified mountain compounds.
01:01The U.S. Treasury Department previously described him as the largest cocaine trafficker into the United States,
01:09with vast networks involved in fuel theft and cross-border criminal operations.
01:16Years of pursuit have finally ended, but the fall of El Mencho does not mean the end of the cartel.
01:24Rather, it opens a new chapter in Mexico's long war against organized crime.
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