WASHINGTON: A new US-military-led task force specializing in intelligence collection on drug cartels played a role in the Mexican military raid on Sunday that killed the Mexican drug lord known as ‘El Mencho,’ a US defense official told Reuters. 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 Mexican army decapitating Mexico's most powerful cartel and gave the government its biggest prize yet to show the Trump administration for its efforts.

Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho", is head of one of Mexico's most powerful drug cartels.