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And within the past 10 years, this man allegedly built one of the most powerful organized crime groups in the world.
He started in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, but he oversaw a massive violent expansion.
So they are now operating from north to south and even internationally.
We spoke to one man in Guadalajara who was trying to get home yesterday and he said that men pointed guns at him.
He called 911 and they simply told him, go home and stay indoors.
We spoke to one woman near the town where El Mencho was killed and she says first she heard helicopters and then the streets filled up with members of the cartels.
She says they burnt a bank by her house and they sent messages saying if the government didn't release their members, they would begin attacking civilians.
Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes was better known as El Mencho, and he turned the Jalisco New Generation cartel into one of the most powerful organized crime groups in the world.
The US was offering a $15 million bounty for El Mencho, accusing his cartel of making billions of dollars by shipping fentanyl and cocaine to the US.
Mexico's defense ministry said El Mencho was injured during an operation to capture him in the state of Jalisco.
He died while being airlifted to Mexico City.
At the same time, members of his cartel have unleashed violence across the state.
In Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta, armed men have set cars and businesses on fire.
El Mencho's death now leaves a power vacuum in Mexico, and that is usually followed by intense violence.
Ada Peralta, NPR News, Mexico City.
The executive order from President Trump was tacitly targeting Mexico, which has become the number one provider of oil to Cuba.
The Trump administration had already tightened sanctions on Cuba, and it had already forced Venezuela to stop providing oil.
At the same time, Cuban-American members of Congress announced they would ask the White House to suspend flights from the US and block family members from sending remittances.
At the moment, Cuba is facing its worst economic crisis in decades.