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Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
We're starting the program with the violence that is fled in Mexico after the killing of the country's most wanted leader of a drugs cartel.
Namesio Oseguera Cervantes, a 59-year-old former policeman known as El Mencho,
was wounded in an operation to arrest him in the state of Jalisco.
He died while being flown to Mexico City.
El Mencho's people in the Helisco New Generation cartel retaliated by torching businesses and blockading roads with burning vehicles.
The mayhem spread across the country.
This video, posted online apparently by cartel members,