Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. On Sunday, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes—the nation’s most feared cartel leader, known as El Mencho—was killed in a dramatic military raid. The killing of El Mencho, who led the powerful and brutal Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), sparked retaliatory violence across the country. Much of the coverage in the United States focused on the impact of the unrest on American tourists and retirees. The Los Angeles Times, by contrast, has taken a more thoughtful approach, publishing several deeply reported pieces, including an insightful profile of El Mencho from Keenan Hamilton that traces Oseguera’s rise from small-time California drug dealer to the head of CJNG. Hamilton, a senior editor at the Times, has covered the Mexican drug trade and cartels extensively.…