A dramatic action-packed video circulating on social media, claiming to show the killing of Mexican drug lord El Mencho , has been found to be misleading. Fact-checkers have confirmed that the footage is not recent and does not depict El Mencho at all. Who Is El Mencho? The viral posts falsely claim that the video shows the death of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes , also known as El Mencho, the alleged leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). However, there is no credib