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At least nine suspected cartel members were killed and a state police officer was shot dead during a series of gun battles Monday. Authorities said the shootouts in the north-central state of Guanajuato started before dawn near the hamlet of Santa Rosa de Lima, the stronghold of a cartel of the same name. State police, soldiers … Read more
Cartel fiesta thrown to honor drug kingpin El Chapo and his sons featuring live bands and a car giveaway is shut down by the Mexican military Military soldiers and local police shut down a Christmas party reportedly organized by Sinaloa Cartel members to honor El Chapo and his children At least 800 people attended the outdoor … Read more
A mother whose daughter was kidnapped and murdered by a Mexican drug cartel spent years stalking and hunting down her child’s captors in a dangerous – and ultimately fatal – mission mirroring the plot of 2008 film Taken. Miriam Elizabeth Rodríguez Martínez of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, became one of Mexico’s most fearless activists for missing … Read more
Woman and two men have their hands hacked off ‘by a feared Mexican drug cartel as punishment for stealing’ Three people found dumped beside a highway in Mexico with their hands cut off Trio – a woman aged 22 and two men aged 23 and 25 – were discovered by panicked locals alongside a bag … Read more
Peruvian authorities uncover 590-foot-long tunnel ‘financed by El Chapo’s old cartel’ that was built in foiled attempt to spring drug traffickers from prison Peruvian jail officials discovered an underground tunnel that was partly built to free a group of drug traffickers from a prison in Lima The National Police of Peru said the tunnel’s construction … Read more
Mexican authorities have captured a man wanted for his purported connection to the massacre of three Mormon mothers and their six children last year. The Attorney General’s Office announced that José Lara was arrested by security forces in Ciudad Juárez on Wednesday, on the one-year anniversary of the bloody incident. Lara is accused of being … Read more
Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador blamed state and local government officials of being behind the rise of José Antonio ‘El Marro’ Yépez and his Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel. López Obrador, who often criticizes past administrations for the country’s ongoing wave of violence, made the claim during a Sunday afternoon address that was uploaded … Read more
The Great Train Robber and the Colombian drug lord: How Charlie Wilson’s secret pact with notorious cartel boss Pablo Escobar helped get Britain hooked on cocaine A new book explores the less well-known latter half of Charlie Wilson’s career Wilson, known as one of the Great Train Robbers, had links to Pablo Escobar Book claims … Read more
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel has become Mexico’s fastest-rising criminal organization, with a reputation for ruthlessness and violence unlike any since the fall of the old Zetas cartel. In parts of the country it is fighting medieval-style battles, complete with fortified redoubts, to expand nationwide, from the outskirts of Mexico City, into the tourist resorts around … Read more
El Chapo’s nephew, 45, is shot and killed in his car in Sinaloa: Cartel members hunt gunmen after his body was found in a vehicle riddled with bullets Enrique Guzmán was found dead inside a car in Sinaloa, Mexico, on Wednesday Cops received a phone call alerting them 45-year-old was shot several times Romero, who … Read more