So Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes one of the world's most wanted drug cartel boss has been eliminated by the Mexican military intelligence and somehow, the US is involved in this one again.
The US government, Again
It's difficult to find a crime scene of international scale where you don't find the US government, the book haram attack in Nigeria about 2 months ago in Nigeria happened via US intelligence, taking out a ring of dozens of terrorists.
The US is also at war with Iran while also launching an attack on Somalia. As for El Mencho, it was inevitable. They were going to get him.
Some how he managed to own the Mexican government for a very long time, had the police in his back pocket, ran a drug cartel that generates over $10B worth of drugs in a year, owns one of the most sophisticated cartel ammunition in the whole world.
Bigger than the government?
Basically his ring was equipped with government grade ammunition, and seemed invincible. So my question is, why did the Mexican government decide to take him out now?
Well for one, he's an international drug boss, wanted with a $15M ransom on his head, two, he's grown to powerful, and three, the Mexican government were tired of him owning them, and fourth, when the US government comes calling on any nation, it's quite difficult to say No.
This is typical of most drug cartel boss, most of them gets cocky, losses composure, starts becoming invisible and then they become "capture or kill at all cost".
This is why it's difficult for them to leave the game. The money and power is always too intoxicating, they get carried away, although it's not like they can retire without being hunted, but most times the fear of being captured or killed makes them so extreme things.
El Mencho for me is just another guy proves that no individual is stronger than the government.
Except the government has no interest
....They only need to liase with any government with a higher military intelligence, then get a whistleblower involved, a touch of cockiness or mistake and these guys are taken down. So basically the US provided man power and intelligence and then this guy was shot in the attack.
He was probably protected by 100s of his guys, and do you know what it means to take out these people before getting to him?
This isn't just numbers, it's probably months of planned attack that was being executed on the day of the final raid.
A lot of details were ticked, the timing of the attack had to be correct, and they probably had to attack when he was at his weakest and this window will probably only be open, who knows, maybe 5 minutes in a day.
This was why he was always in a hideout. He wasn't scared of the Mexican government, it was the US he was scared of. He lived in the US for long, and understands that their military intelligence is the only undoing he could face, and oh my! This would make a good Netflix show.
Drug cartel bosses will come and go, except perhaps these drug businesses are not scaled to international levels.
Mencho and his folks have gone on for far too long, and I'm sure that somehow in his mind, he'd always know that some day, he'd end up in a ditch, in a pool of blood, or in jail. Unfortunately for him it wasn't in jail. He probably felt
"let me run this for another 10 to 20 years" or something like that, but unfortunately even the great Escobar ended up in a pool of blood as well, and Mencho even though he's arguably the only drug cartel boss that comes close to Escobar, it was inevitable.
Cut the Hydra's head
Unfortunately Mencho is the head of the Hydra, and someone will rise to occupy that seat of vacuum, and this is how the game of drug trafficking works.