Mexico: Jalisco Cartel Leader 'El Mencho' Buried in Golden Coffin

Government-critical narrative

Taking out cartel kingpins like El Mencho just fragments criminal organizations and triggers brutal succession wars without addressing the structural roots of drug trafficking. The kingpin strategy has repeatedly failed across two decades, spawning more violent splinter groups while leaving financial networks and institutional corruption untouched. Real solutions require dismantling the economic conditions and international complicity that sustain the narcotics trade, not militarized spectacles.