Mexico killed Mencho, fearing that U.S. would otherwise do job unilaterally

Los Angeles Times: For months, Mexican Cabinet officials had discussed the challenges of capturing Oseguera and weighed the likely violent fallout from his arrest, said a person familiar with the talks who requested anonymity to discuss internal matters. Officials believed that if President Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration didn’t act, President Trump might launch a unilateral raid on Mexican soil, that source said.

Sheinbaum and other Mexican officials have called such a raid unacceptable and a violation of Mexico’s sovereignty. But U.S. experts have for years been involved in providing Mexican authorities intelligence and have trained Mexican personnel. Now, the threat of an incursion by U.S. forces pushed Mexican authorities to take action, the source said…