Latin America · 23 February 2026 to 4 March 2026 · 33 headlines · Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera, BBC News, CNN, AP, Fox News, South China Morning Post
With World Cup looming, can Mexico contain the chaos unleashed by the killing of drug lord ‘El Mencho’?
With World Cup looming, can Mexico contain the chaos unleashed by the killing of drug lord ‘El Mencho’?: a running story on the front pages of 7 newsrooms from 23 February 2026 to 4 March 2026, 33 headlines over 10 days.
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4 March 2026
- Al Jazeera Is the US arming Mexican cartels?
28 February 2026
27 February 2026
26 February 2026
- BBC News 'Fear is everywhere': BBC reports from Mexican city turned into war zone by drug cartel feud
- BBC News BBC on streets of Mexican city gripped by deadly cartel violence
- Al Jazeera Will Mexico’s Jalisco cartel’s violent biz model survive El Mencho’s death?
- CNN With World Cup looming, can Mexico contain the chaos unleashed by the killing of drug lord ‘El Mencho’?
- BBC News BBC sees damage in Puerto Vallarta after Mexican cartel violence
25 February 2026
- BBC News Threat of further violence looms after Mexican cartel rampage
- BBC News BBC sees damage in Puerto Vallarta after Mexican cartel violence
- Wall Street Journal The violence in the Puerto Vallarta area is unnerving America’s community of expat retirees in Mexico.
- Al Jazeera With ‘El Mencho’ killed, what’s next for Mexico and the Jalisco cartel?
- Wall Street Journal A combination of overwhelming force and U.S. intelligence helped Mexico kill the cartel boss known as “El Mencho.”
- Al Jazeera What we know about Mexican drug cartel leaders still at large
- BBC News Tourists in Puerto Vallarta react to cartel violence
24 February 2026
- AP Security forces keep up fight with cartel gunmen a day after the Mexican military killed a drug lord
- BBC News Mexico sends thousands of soldiers to stop violence after death of drug lord
- AP How Mexico killed the powerful cartel leader ‘El Mencho’ and what it means
- Al Jazeera ‘El Mencho’ killing sparks ‘overwhelming fear’ as violence erupts in Mexico
- Fox News Dozens of Mexican troops killed in cartel revenge
- Fox News Americans trapped in Mexico amid cartel violence
- Al Jazeera Who was El Mencho? What drug lord’s killing means for Mexico
- Al Jazeera Mexican officials say 25 soldiers killed in clashes following cartel raid
- Al Jazeera What we know about Mexican drug cartel leaders still at large
- BBC News What the killing of drug lord 'El Mencho' means for Mexico
- Al Jazeera El Mencho’s killing won’t solve Mexico’s cartel problem – or anything else
- South China Morning Post 73 people died in attempt to capture Mexican cartel leader and the aftermath
- Wall Street Journal A combination of overwhelming force and U.S. intelligence helped Mexico kill the cartel boss known as El Mencho.
- CNN Who was ‘El Mencho,’ the feared cartel leader killed in a military operation?
23 February 2026
- Wall Street Journal Mexico Takes on Cartels as Killing of Drug Kingpin Sparks Violence
- Al Jazeera Violence erupts in Mexico after killing of drug cartel kingpin ‘El Mencho’
- BBC News Mexico's most wanted drug lord 'El Mencho' killed in military operation
- CNN Mexico's most-wanted drug leader killed in military operation