The criminal ascent of ‘El Mencho’ as Mexico’s most powerful drug lord

By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Like many drug lords, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes kept a low profile until he was killed by the Mexican army Sunday in the western state of Jalisco.

Despite building one of Mexico’s most powerful criminal organizations over two decades, the only known photographs of the known as “El Mencho” come from his earlier arrests on robbery and drug charges in California in the 1980s and early 1990s.

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