Erick Valencia Salazar, aka "El 85," formed the Jalisco New Generation Cartel with "El Mencho" who was killed by the Mexican army in February.

The cartel used "violence as a business model," a DEA official said.

Mexico and the United States identify the 41-year-old as the possible successor to the powerful organization. Part of an old Michoacán clan and stepson of El Mencho, criminal lineage looms large in th ...

The leader of the Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) Mexican drug cartel has been killed during a security operation to arrest him, according to Mexico’s Ministry of Defense. Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, ...

Santa Ana was one of the first territories in the US conquered by the criminal organization. Juan Carlos Valencia González, ...

My hypothesis: the story of El Mencho was the story of methamphetamine. Here's how I investigated that theory.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Newspapers hang on display for sale in Mexico City, Monday, Feb. 23, 2026, a day after the Mexican army killed Jalisco New ...

A former U.S. narcotics official says the narco-terrorist leader killed by Mexican authorities on Sunday oversaw a cartel responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans. Nemesio ...

Government documents reveal the fall of drug kingpin "El Mencho" over the weekend was the culmination of an aggressive, more than yearlong strategy of "total elimination" pursued by the Trump ...