00:01Cartel violence triggered by the killing of Mexico's most powerful drug lord is
00:07suing worries about tourism just months before the country co-host the World Cup.
00:12Maria Dolores Aguirre's family corner store, located in the mountain of the radical state,
00:17has lived of tourism. She fears the bloodshed will deal a blow to her livelihood.
00:23The government will have to have a lot of security, especially, but I think it will affect
00:31it because it has been done with the knowledge of all the world, so the people will think
00:39about coming. It will affect it.
00:45Nemesio Cegara-Savantes, leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, was killed on Sunday
00:51after a shootout with the Mexican military. More than 70 people died in the attempt to
00:56capture the cartel leader, also known as El Mencho, authorities said Monday.
01:01Violence has since erupted in Jalisco and several other states across Mexico.
01:06Some analysts have warned that El Mencho's killing would lead to instability as contenders
01:12seek to replace him. On another hand, cartels have an economic interest in ensuring that
01:18the World Cup is peaceful, they say. The World Cup, co-hosted by Mexico, the United States
01:23and Canada, will start on the 11th of June.
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