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Mexico digs up relative to identify slain drug lord

Mexican authorities exhumed a relative of drug kingpin Heriberto Lazcano and took DNA samples from the corpse to remove any doubt they had killed the Zetas leader. Lazcano, one of Mexico’s most wanted men, is believed to have been killed at a baseball field in the northern state of Coahuila…

Mexico says it may have killed Zetas cartel leader

The Mexican navy said the leader of the Zetas, a powerful drug cartel implicated in a grisly string of mass killings, was apparently killed in a shootout near the US border. The navy said in a statement that it was still awaiting final forensic results, but that the body appeared…