Major Mexican drug cartel was killed in a clash with Figure Army. world News

Officials said on Saturday that a leader of a notorious Mexican drug cartel, who had a reward on his head in the United States, died in a confrontation with army soldiers.The state of Cinaloa, where a powerful cartel of the same name is based, is ending a war between two rival groups, which has left about 1,200 people since September.George Hamberto Figueroa was shot dead in a raid to arrest on Friday, Public Security Secretary Omar Garcia Harfuch wrote on the social media platform X.The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was offering up to $ 1 million for information for his arrest on suspicion of phentinel trafficing and money laundering.Figuero was one of the masterminds of a notorious clash with officials in the city of Kulikan in 2019, said.In that case, the members of the cartel fought a fight for security forces, who arrested Ovidio Gujman, son of Sinaloa Cartel’s co-founder “Chapo” Gujman’s son Ovidio Gujman.Mexican officials issued a controversial manner to Ovidio Gujman at that time, saying that they wanted to avoid further bloodshed. But he was eventually arrested in 2023 and extradited to the United States, where he is in custody.The Mexican Press report said that Figuero belonged to the Sinaloa Cartel faction run by the sons of the old Gujman, who are serving life imprisonment in the United States.The group is fighting another group led by Cartel’s co-founder Ismail Zamba, who was lured and arrested in the United States in a sting operation in 2024.Newspaper reforma said that Figuero was the lead of security for the faction led by Guzman’s sons.