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El Mencho - The California Connection

El Mencho - The California Connection

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 Alexandra Reeves traces the origins of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as El Mencho, from his impoverished childhood in Michoacán's avocado orchards through his formative years as a heroin dealer in 1980s San Francisco, revealing how poverty, immigration, and the American drug market shaped the man who would become one of the world's most wanted cartel kingpins. This gripping episode explores his 1992 federal heroin conviction, deportation, brief stint as a Mexican police officer, and rise through the Milenio Cartel ranks as an enforcer and hitman.

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