A new US-military-led task force specializing in intelligence collection on drug cartels played a role in the Mexican military raid on Sunday that killed the Mexican drug lord known as "El Mencho," a US defense official told Reuters.
The Joint Interagency Task Force-Counter Cartel, which involves multiple US government agencies, was quietly launched late last year with the goal of mapping out networks of drug cartel members on both sides of the US-Mexico border, US officials said.
The US official, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, did not offer further details on any information the US-military-led task force may have provided to Mexican authorities. The official stressed the raid itself was a Mexican military operation.
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