00:00Mexico has deployed around 10,000 troops nationwide after a wave of violence sparked by the killing of cartel leader
00:09Al Mancho.
00:10Authorities say more than 70 people were killed during the operation to capture him and in the violence that followed.
00:18News of Al Mancho's death triggered waves of unrest, with cartel members blocking roads in 20 states and torching vehicles
00:26and businesses.
00:27He was the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, one of Mexico's fastest-growing and most violent criminal networks.
00:36The group is known for trafficking fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine into the United States and for staging brazen attacks against
00:44Mexican authorities.
00:46The army says Al Mancho was wounded in a shootout with soldiers on Sunday and died while being airlifted to
00:53Mexico City.
00:54The U.S. Department of State previously offered a reward of up to 15 million U.S. dollars for information
01:00leading to Al Mancho's arrest.
01:02In February last year, the Trump administration had also designated his cartel as a foreign terrorist organization.
01:10However, Mexican President Claudia Shenbon clarified that U.S. forces did not participate in the operation against Al Mancho,
01:17saying it was a mission carried out solely by its own federal forces.
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