Mexico’s Cartel Kingpin Strategy: Smart Crackdown or Recipe for More Violence?
Mexico is again leaning into a “kingpin strategy,” meaning security forces are targeting top cartel leaders instead of only arresting lower-level members. The latest major example is the arrest of Audias Flores, known as “El Jardinero,” a senior commander in the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, or CJNG. Mexican officials said special forces captured him in … Read more