How rendezvous with girlfriend led to violent end for Mexico’s most-wanted drug kingpin
Tracking a romantic partner to a secluded cabin allowed Mexican forces - helped by US intelligence - to corner ‘El Mencho’
The 59-year-old Oseguera, nicknamed “El Mencho”, was wounded in a clash with soldiers on Sunday and died while being airlifted to hospital.
The operation was launched when Mexican military intelligence agents, supported by the US military’s Northern Command, learned that the woman in question planned to rendezvous with the drug lord in Tapalpa, some 130km from Guadalajara, the capital of Jalisco state.
Mexican Defence Secretary Ricardo Trevilla told reporters at a press conference on Monday that the woman, “one of the romantic partners of ‘El Mencho’,” was brought to a house in Tapalpa by a trusted associate.
On Saturday, she met with Oseguera and then left, leaving Oseguera in the house with his security detail, Trevilla explained.