CIA Helped Locate Cartel Leader by Providing Intel to Mexico

(MENAFN) US intelligence agencies, including the CIA, supplied Mexican authorities with information that aided in locating Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, also known as El Mencho, according to The New York Times citing US officials. The intelligence helped Mexican special forces carry out the operation that resulted in his death.

Mexican officials said they first monitored an individual in a romantic relationship with Oseguera, which led them to a meeting at the cartel leader’s hideout. Mexico’s Secretary of Defense, Ricardo Trevilla Trejo, confirmed that the Mexican Army’s elite intelligence unit identified the associate but acknowledged that US-provided “complementary information” was critical in tracking the cartel network.

Sources familiar with the operation described the CIA’s contribution as “instrumental in removing” El Mencho. Specific collection methods were not disclosed, though they likely included human intelligence, aerial surveillance, and intercepted communications.

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