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Hello and welcome back to the Americana Show. My name is Freddie Gray. I am the deputy editor of the

spectator and the US editor. And I'm pleased to tell you that this is the 10th year of the

Americano podcast. And I think it's fair to say it's been a fairly fascinating time in American politics, life and culture.

And that's what we talk about every episode on this podcast.

So please keep listening and provide as much feedback as you like.

Today I am delighted to be joined by Melissa Ford Maldonado, who is director of the Western Hemisphere Initiative at the America First Policy Institute.

And we're going to be talking about Mexico, because over the weekend, a very big news story exploded in Mexico.

Following the killing of El Mentiono, a cartel kingpin,

and there have been a series of attacks, cartel-led attacks, on various sites in Mexico,

and they are touristic sites where there are quite a lot of American citizens.

So Melissa, give us a sort of outline of what happened yesterday and why it happened.

Yeah, yeah, I'd love to.

So as you mentioned, his full name is Nemesio Oseguera-Servantes, but he's better known as El Meno.

And he's not only a very powerful

cartel leader and the head of the Halisco New Generation Cartel, CJNG for short, but he was also

Mexico's most wanted man. And he died yesterday. He died in custody shortly after being

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