The killings of other cartel kingpins have done little to stem the production and flow of drugs towards the US. On Sunday, Mexican security forces killed 59-year-old Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho”, the leader of the notorious Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), based in western Mexico’s Jalisco state. The Mexican defence ministry acknowledged that the lethal operation had been conducted with “complementary information” from the United States, whose “peacemaker” president, Donald Trump, has repeatedly threatened to attack Mexico to combat the drug cartels. Mind you, these are organisations that owe their very existence to US policy and drug consumption in the first place. US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau greeted the news of El Mencho’s death with gl...