Keegan Hamilton is the senior editor for legal affairs and criminal justice at the Los Angeles Times. He is a former editor and correspondent at Vice News, where he covered federal law enforcement, drug policy and organized crime. At Vice, he was the host and co-creator of the narrative podcast series “Painkiller: America’s Fentanyl Crisis,” which received an Edward R. Murrow Award for its exploration of the underlying causes of the recent surge in fatal overdoses linked to synthetic opioids. He also created and co-hosted the podcast “Chapo: Kingpin on Trial,” about the U.S. prosecution of infamous Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán-Loera. His writing has been published by the Marshall Project, the Atlantic, the Village Voice, BuzzFeed News and other publications. A graduate of the University of Washington, Hamilton began his career reporting for alt-weekly newspapers in Seattle and St. Louis, Mo.
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The aftermath of a Mexican special forces raid that killed the notorious leader of the Jalisco New Generation cartel offered a window into the life of a fugitive drug kingpin.
Ahora que el líder del Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación ha muerto, ¿qué pasará con su coalición de despiadados comandantes regionales? ¿Accederán a compartir el poder? ¿Constituirán a uno de ellos en líder supremo? ¿O estallará una sangrienta lucha de poder?
Now that the head of the Jalisco New Generation cartel is dead, what will happen to its coalition of ruthless regional commanders? Will they agree to share power? Elevate one as supreme leader? Or will a bloody power struggle break out?
The founder of the ruthless Jalisco New Generation Cartel was killed Sunday in Mexico, authorities said, ending a criminal career that reshaped his country’s underworld after humble beginnings on the streets of San Francisco.
The Mexican army has killed the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in a military operation.
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