Overview
- Four officials working on anti-cartel efforts died Sunday in a highway crash in Chihuahua after a raid on a clandestine drug lab.
- Chihuahua’s attorney general identified the Mexican victims as AEI regional director Pedro Ramón Oseguera Cervantes and his bodyguard, Manuel Genaro Méndez Montes.
- State officials said the team was returning from the municipality of Morelos, where they had dismantled a drug-processing site run by organized crime.
- The U.S. Embassy said two of its instructors were taking part in an AEI training program tied to bilateral security cooperation.
- U.S. Ambassador Ronald Johnson offered condolences and vowed to continue joint security work, while officials have not yet detailed the cause of the crash or released the U.S. instructors’ names.