{"id":86833,"date":"2026-02-24T14:43:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/violence-in-mexico-after-death-of-drug-lord-el-mencho-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T14:43:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:43:39","slug":"violence-in-mexico-after-death-of-drug-lord-el-mencho-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/violence-in-mexico-after-death-of-drug-lord-el-mencho-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence in Mexico after death of drug lord &#8216;El Mencho&#8217; | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 62 people have been killed in Mexico following a wave of violence that broke out after the killing <!--more--> of the country\u2019s most wanted man, according to authorities in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;El Mencho&#8221;, the leader of the New Generation drug cartel, was killed during a security operation to arrest him on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of soldiers have been deployed to help bolster security across the country following a wave of retaliation attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Residents and tourists across several Mexican states have been asked to stay inside, with most businesses, schools and universities closed.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Mexico #ElMencho #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 62 people have been killed in Mexico following a wave of violence that broke out after the killing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}