"There were only three photos of him. All of them were the typical mugshots from U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) files, taken in the early 1990s. First, they caught him with a bit of marijuana. Later, selling heroin to undercover officers in a San Francisco bar. He was just over 20 and made a living crossing illegally into the United States, getting arrested, and being deported."
"He revolutionized the business beyond drugs extortion, theft, migrant trafficking with operations across Mexico and much of the United States. His organization was capable of assassinating judges, politicians, and military officers, paralyzing entire cities, hiring foreign mercenaries, and even shooting down army helicopters. El Mencho, who died on Sunday in a police operation, was Mexico's numberone target and the most wanted drug trafficker in the United States, heading one of Mexico's most powerful, influential, and ruthless transnational criminal organizations."
Nemesio El Mencho Oseguera Cervantes rose from a poor Michoacán farming family to become head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), a dominant transnational criminal organization. Early U.S. arrests for marijuana and heroin trafficking did not stop repeated illegal border crossings and deportations. After serving prison time he remained in Mexico and climbed through hitman roles, betrayals, and alliances, including selling out a Milenio Cartel boss to gain Sinaloa favor. He expanded criminal operations beyond drugs into extortion, theft, and migrant trafficking across Mexico and much of the United States, employing assassinations, blockades, mercenaries, and attacks on military helicopters. He died in a police operation.
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