The Joint Interagency Task Force-Counter Cartel, which involves multiple US government agencies, was formally launched last month with the goal of mapping out networks of drug cartel members on both sides of the US-Mexico border, US officials said. The official stressed the raid itself was a Mexican military operation. The former official added El Mencho was very high, if not at the top, of a list of US targets in Mexico. Mexican authorities killed drug lord Nemesio Oseguera, commonly known as 'El Mencho', during an operation designed to capture him in the western state of Jalisco. US mapping out cartelsThere is little information publicly available about the US Joint Interagency Task Force-Counter Cartel, or JITF-CC.

Source: The Edge Markets February 23, 2026 16:35 UTC