El Mencho Dead! And Mexico Explodes

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

We told you his life story in our 2022 episode, and now we're back with the sequel. El Mencho rose from poverty to build the CJNG into Mexico’s most violent and influential cartel, trafficking fent, meth and coke across the hemisphere. After years on the run with a huge U.S. bounty on his head, Mexican forces killed him in a daring military operation last week in Jalisco. The cartel responded with unprecedented retaliation: burning vehicles, massive roadblocks and bloody clashes with security forces that left dozens dead and airports and flights disrupted. His death has left a power vacuum in CJNG, sparking fear of a new wave of turf wars and uncertainty about what comes next in Mexico’s cartel wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Are you tired of the mainstream media's coverage of the NBA?
0:03.4	You ever wonder about what they're hiding?
0:05.2	The stories that don't fit the agenda.
0:07.0	You want the truth? Do you think you can handle it?
0:09.6	Welcome to Basketball Illuminati.
0:12.4	I'm Tom Haverstrow.
0:13.7	And I'm Amino Hassan.
0:14.9	With over two decades of experience navigating the shadowy depths of the NBA.
0:19.2	We'll peel back the curtain and show you how the hidden cabal really operates.
0:23.9	Are you ready to be enlightened?
0:25.6	Basketball Illuminati podcast.
0:27.5	Join the Illumination and keep your third eye open.
0:30.6	It's Friday, February 20, 26.
0:34.4	A Mexican authorities have just caught a massive break.
0:37.9	For years, they've been hunting Nemesio Osigera-Sevantes, aka El Mentiono,
0:43.4	head of the C.J.NG and Mexico's most wanted man.
0:47.8	And for just as long he's given them the slip, surrounded by henchmen and swapping homes
0:52.9	more often than a meth head on the Mongolian step.
0:56.4	Until now, the investigator's trail has led them to a Mencho insider,
1:01.4	a man who claims to be the confident of one of the Narko's female concubines.
1:06.0	In fact, the contact says, I'm taking her to meet him right now,
1:10.6	at his cabin complex in Topalpa,
	...

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