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Mexico arrests two alleged Sinaloa drug cartel members
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Two alleged senior members of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel who are wanted by the US Drug Enforcement Agency were arrested in Mexico’s crime capital Ciudad Juarez, officials said. The two suspects, identified as Fernando Arellano Romero and Daniel Franco Lopez, were arrested by a special Chihuahua…
Mexico arrests son of Sinaloa drug cartel boss
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s military on Thursday said it had captured the son of Sinaloa drug cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, dealing a major blow against the notorious crime syndicate run by this country’s most wanted man. “Following an intelligence operation, Jesus Alfredo Guzman, the presumed son of Joaquin…
Mexico drug gangs up ante with high-tech tunnels
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (Reuters) – When architect Felipe de Jesus Corona built Mexico’s most powerful drug lord a 200-foot-long tunnel under the U.S.-Mexican border with a hydraulic lift entrance opened by a fake water tap, the kingpin was impressed. The architect “made me one f—ing cool tunnel” Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman…
50 bodies found in two days of carnage in Mexico
Fifty dead bodies have been discovered over the past two days in western Mexico, victims of a fierce war waged between the government and the nation’s powerful drug cartels. The bodies of 26 young men were dumped in three vehicles near a busy intersection in Guadalajara. It bore the signs…
50 bodies found in two days of carnage in Mexico
Fifty dead bodies have been discovered over the past two days in western Mexico, victims of a fierce war waged between the government and the nation’s powerful drug cartels. The bodies of 26 young men were dumped in three vehicles near a busy intersection in Guadalajara. It bore the signs…
Mexico’s narcocorridos turn drug violence to music
Mexico’s popular songs glorifying its drug traffickers, known as narcocorridos, have attracted a growing following in recent years, from Mexico City to Los Angeles. But authorities in northwestern Sinaloa for the first time banned the ballads in May, surprising many in the home state of Mexico’s oldest drug cartel, the…
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