{"id":22117,"date":"2026-04-16T16:33:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22117"},"modified":"2026-04-16T16:33:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:33:49","slug":"inside-the-operation-to-take-down-mexicos-biggest-drug-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22117","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Operation to Take Down Mexico\u2019s Biggest Drug Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Trump&#8217;s pressure on Mexico to fight the drug cartels, including threatening American military strikes, have been convincing Mexico to fight harder against the cartels. Whether this produces any long term success is yet to be known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Inside the Operation to Take Down Mexico\u2019s Biggest Drug Lord\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gPI6iu1BlfI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s pressure on Mexico to fight the drug cartels, including threatening American military strikes, have been convincing Mexico to fight harder against the cartels. Whether this produces any long term success is yet to be known. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gPI6iu1BlfI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,986,439,945,170,619,989],"class_list":["post-22117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-drug-cartels","tag-drugs","tag-mexico","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-war-on-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22118,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22117\/revisions\/22118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}