Violence erupts in Mexico after army kills drug lord
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Violence has broken out in several cities across Mexico hours after the military confirmed it had killed one of the country's most feared drug lords - known as El Mencho. The leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel was shot in a dawn raid and died from his injuries. Also: Students in Iran have staged a second day of anti-government protests to honour those killed in last month's deadly crackdown. US secret service agents have shot dead a man who broke into President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate with a shotgun. Greenland and Denmark reply "no thanks" to Donald Trump after he said he was sending an American hospital ship to "take care" of people in Greenland. Ukraine's President Zelensky tells the BBC President Putin has already started what amounts to World War Three - but Kyiv is keeping it contained. The grande finale of the Winter Olympics in Verona. All the latest from the BAFTAs, where the American film, One Battle After Another, has picked up several awards. The bones of St Francis of Assisi have gone on public display to mark 800 years since his death. And an annual folk festival dating back to the 15th century has been taking place in Belgium ... but without its longstanding tradition of drinking tiny live fish from an antique cup.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm Andrew Peach, and in the early hours of Monday, the 23rd of February, these are our main stories. |
| 0:16.6 | Violence has broken out across Mexico after the leader of one of the country's most feared |
| 0:20.8 | drugs cartels was killed in a military operation. There's been a second day of protests at |
| 0:26.0 | Iranian universities with crowds chanting death to the dictator. And a man who broke into |
| 0:31.6 | President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate carrying a shotgun and a fuel can has been shot dead. |
| 0:38.3 | Also in this podcast, Ukraine's president tells BBC news that Russia has already started World War III. |
| 0:45.1 | We have different views regarding a third World War. I believe that Putin has already started it. |
| 0:51.6 | The question is how much territory he will be able to seize and how to stop him. |
| 0:56.4 | And the Winter Olympics have come to an end at a glittering ceremony in Verona. |
| 1:04.3 | We start in Mexico where a government military operation has led to the killing of a major |
| 1:08.6 | drunks kingpin, leader of the feared new generation |
| 1:11.8 | Calisco cartel. Namesio Oseguera-Sivantis was known by his nickname El Mentiono, a drug lord so powerful |
| 1:19.1 | the US authorities put a $15 million bounty on his head. Since his killing, the response from |
| 1:25.5 | El Mentiono's cartel has been swift and violent. |
| 1:28.9 | In as many as eight different Mexican states, the group has set cars alight, built roadblocks and attacked security forces. |
| 1:36.0 | Plumes of smoke have been filmed rising over several cities, and many international flights have been cancelled. |
| 1:42.1 | Our correspondent in Miami, Luis Fajardo, tell me more about the |
| 1:45.7 | drugs lord. El Mancho was a very big figure in the crime world, both of Mexico and internationally. |
| 1:53.1 | Friends and foes of Mexican President Claudiocheimbaum have acknowledged that it is a very big |
| 1:58.3 | deal for the authorities to have killed him on Sunday. He was the |
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