Escalating U.S.-Led Crackdown on Cartels Strikes Financial Institutions

The killing of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias "El Mencho," by Mexican armed forces with U.S. intelligence support has triggered a predictable cycle of violence across Mexico. Reverberations of his death, the former leader of one of the country's most notorious drug cartels, have already played out in the form of retaliatory attacks against the government and a power struggle within cartel ranks. This event underscores the heightened U.S.-led campaign against transnational criminal organizatio