While the killing may relieve pressure on the Mexican president from Trump, it will also create a cartel power vacuum. Sheinbaum has previously criticised the discredited "war on drugs" strategy, in which military action often triggers major violence only for new cartel leaders to emerge…
"If no one can, if the CJNG finally splinters, you have four or five different lieutenants with the manpower, the weaponry and the criminal empires to build their own fiefdoms – and that could plunge Mexico into almost record levels of violence," Dalby said…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/23/el-mencho-mexican-drug-cartel-boss-killing-violence
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