{"id":297185,"date":"2026-02-22T22:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/297185\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T22:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:11:08","slug":"nemesio-oseguera-leader-of-the-jalisco-new-generation-cartel-had-a-25m-bounty-on-his-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/297185\/","title":{"rendered":"Nemesio Oseguera, leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, had a $25m bounty on his head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">Mexican newspapers El Universal and Reforma, and the Televisa network reported Oseguera\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">Earlier, people with guns set cars and trucks on fire in the western state of Jalisco, blocking several roads in response to a security operation taking place in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">This technique is used to thwart police trying to move in on a high-value target.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">The violence spread to the neighbouring state of Michoacan, where Oseguera\u2019s cartel also has a presence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">His cartel was formed in 2009 and became one of Mexico\u2019s most violent drug trafficking organisations, according to the US Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">US officials formally classified it as a terrorist organisation and accuse the cartel of sending cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and fentanyl from Mexico across the border into the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">-Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mexican newspapers El Universal and Reforma, and the Televisa network reported Oseguera\u2019s death. Earlier, people with guns set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[654,8227,111998,34599,6179,3401,8223,29163,1351,106,42,293,163774,13489,34598,163772,117,43,1118,90,163773,17216,11923,3048,2437,31145,223,1865,40,38,41,39,104831],"class_list":["post-297185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-25m","tag-army","tag-bounty","tag-cartel","tag-died","tag-drug","tag-forces","tag-generation","tag-had","tag-head","tag-headlines","tag-his","tag-jalisco","tag-leader","tag-mexican","tag-nemesio","tag-new","tag-news","tag-of","tag-on","tag-oseguera","tag-powerful","tag-raid","tag-said","tag-security","tag-suffered","tag-the","tag-today","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wounds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}