A wanted poster for El Mencho, the new El Chapo (Image: Twitter)
As Guzman faced life in a Supermax jail, US authorities confirmed he has been replaced as Public Enemy Number One by an even more sinister and ruthless figure. America's Drug Enforcement Administration has put a "Dead or Alive" bounty of $10million - £7.8million - on the head of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes... El Mencho. He is head of Mexico's fastestgrowing, wealthiest and most ruthless criminal set-up, the New Generation Cartel in Jalisco, which dominates drug trafficking and boasts a £15billion "war chest". El Mencho's rise has been marked by a savagery one ex-DEA agent called "extreme, even by narco standards." His men dumped the mutilated corpses of 35 men, all of whom had been bound and tortured, on the streets of Veracruz in evening rush hour as a message to his enemies. They raped, murdered and then set fire to the body of a 10-yearold girl they - mistakenly - thought to be a rival boss's daughter.
They also executed a man and his young son by detonating sticks of dynamite taped to their bodies, laughing as they filmed it on their phones. "This is Islamic State stuff," said the ex-DEA agent, who added that he and colleagues past and present celebrated last week when El Chapo was found guilty on multiple charges in New York.
But he said: "Many of us now believe that someone even worse has grabbed his throne."
Only a handful of photos of El Mencho are known to exist and even America's State Department description of its latest 'Most Wanted' target is frustratingly vague, stating, "He is 52 years old, 5ft 8in, weighs around 11-and-a-half stones and has brown hair and brown eyes".
No one knows how Cervantes got his nickname, which
