BREAKING: Mexico’s Most-Wanted Cartel Boss Killed by Security Forces, Officials Say Nemesio

The Joint Interagency Task Force-Counter Cartel, which specialises in intelligence collection on drug cartels, played a role in the military raid, a US defence official told Reuters. The taskforce was quietly launched late last year with the goal of mapping out networks of drug cartel members on both sides of the US-Mexico border, US officials said.

As the unrest grew, Jalisco’s state governor, Pablo Lemus Navarro, urged its 8 million citizens to stay at home “until the situation is brought back under control”. Lemus said public transport services were being suspended and that people should not travel on the state’s roads because of the “violent events” that had spread to at least five parts of the country.