{"id":5103,"date":"2026-02-25T19:36:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/what-el-menchos-death-means-for-mexicos-cartels\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T19:36:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:36:55","slug":"what-el-menchos-death-means-for-mexicos-cartels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/what-el-menchos-death-means-for-mexicos-cartels\/","title":{"rendered":"What El Mencho\u2019s death means for Mexico\u2019s cartels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico kills cartel leader El Mencho. Violence erupts nationwide. What changes now?<\/p>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>Mexico says it killed El Mencho, leader of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel. Within hours, highways burned and violence spread across multiple states. His death is being called a victory, but removing a kingpin doesn\u2019t dismantle a cartel. What changes now for Mexico, and what doesn\u2019t?<\/p>\n<p><strong>In this episode:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Andalusia K Soloff (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Andalalucha\">@Andalalucha<\/a>), Journalist &#038; Filmmaker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Episode credits:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This episode was produced by Noor Wazwaz, Sonia Bhagat, and Marcos Bartolome, with Spencer Cline, Tamara Khandaker, Tuleen Barakat and our host, Malika Bilal. It was edited by Sar\u00ed el-Khalili.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad al-Melhemm. Alexandra Locke is The Take\u2019s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera\u2019s head of audio.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Connect with us:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>@AJEPodcasts on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEPodcasts\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ajepodcasts\/\">Instagram,\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AJEPodcasts\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico kills cartel leader El Mencho. Violence erupts nationwide. What changes now? Mexico says it killed El Mencho, leader of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel. Within hours, highways burned and violence spread across multiple states. His death is being called a victory, but removing a kingpin doesn\u2019t dismantle a cartel. What changes now for &#8230; <a title=\"What El Mencho\u2019s death means for Mexico\u2019s cartels\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/what-el-menchos-death-means-for-mexicos-cartels\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What El Mencho\u2019s death means for Mexico\u2019s cartels\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}