The U.S. State Department has flagged several regions in Mexico as hazardous for American travelers, following the Mexican army's killing of a Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader on Sunday morning.

On February 22, cartel boss Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” was killed in a hideout in the town of Tapalpa, a well-known tourist center in Mexico’s Jalisco state. The Mexican ...

MEXICO CITY, Mexico — The Mexican army killed the country’s most powerful cartel leader and one of the United States’ most wanted fugitives on Sunday, notching a major victory while cartel members ...

Over the past two decades, drug cartels in Mexico have grown exponentially to the point that in some parts of the country organized crime groups exert more control than the federal government. To ...

Since last year, CIA operatives inside Mexico have directly participated in deadly attacks on several, mostly mid-level cartel members, the sources said.

In February 2026, Mexican forces killed the cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes — more commonly known as "El Mencho" in an organized raid on the leader's mountain hideout. Violence ensued as ...

The Mexican army guarding the Forensic Expert Center of the Attorney General's Office where the body of the drug lord of the Jalisco New Generation cartel, Nemesio Oceguera known as "El Mencho", is ...