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Mexican vigilantes seize new town from drug cartel
Vigilantes seized a drug cartel's bastion in western Mexico on Sunday, sparking a shootout as the civilian militia gained new ground in their struggle against the gang in a violence-plagued region. Hundreds of armed civilians riding in more than 100 pickup trucks rolled into the Michoacan state town of Nueva Italia and were met by gunfire from presumed Knights Templar cartel members when they reached the municipal office.
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CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico's Most Notorious Drug Cartel
Court documents detail arrangement between the U.S. government and the Sinaloa cartel.
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Will El Chapo Rule From Prison?
A joint U.S.-Mexico security operation ended a 13-year manhunt for El Chapo, the head of the feared Sinaloa cartel.
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Catching the World’s Most Notorious Drug Lord
Joaquin Guzman Loera, known as El Chapo, or Shorty, was the leader of the multibillion-dollar Sinaloa cartel, which is thought to be responsible for as much as half the illegal narcotics that cross the border every year. El Chapo was said to hide amongst the peaks of the Sierra Madre Occidental, and to be protected by up to three hundred armed men. Mexican authorities code-named the mission to capture him Operation Gargoyle.
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"Fair Trade" Cocaine Is A Thing Now
The rapid growth of online drug vendors has transformed the way illegal narcotics are sold and marketed. How do dealers compete in a virtual world where violence and intimidation are no longer options? As with any other product, through customer service, promotional campaigns and pledges of social responsibility.
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How a Russian Dark Web Drug Market Outlived the Silk Road (And Silk Road 2)
Silk Roads come and Silk Roads go. But after every law enforcement crackdown shakes the Dark Web, one Russian black market always seems to survive. For more than two and half years, the Russian Anonymous Marketplace or RAMP has maintained a thriving business in the Dark Web drug trade, offering one of the Internet’s widest arrays of narcotics of every variety to its Russian-speaking clientele.
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Smugglers Detail How Mexico's Most Notorious Cartel Moved $60 Million Worth Of Cocaine Through Chicago Every Month
Pedro and Margarito Flores worked regularly with "El Chapo."
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Legal Pot In The U.S. May Be Undercutting Mexican Marijuana
As more U.S. states approve marijuana for medical or recreational use, the price for pot growers in Mexico is falling. This could change the business model for narcotraffickers as well.
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Protesters in Mexico Slam German Weapons Supplier
Protesters in Mexico claim that German arms manufacturers exported rifles to a corrupt local police department implicated in the disappearance of 43 students. About 100 demonstrators gathered outside the German embassy in Mexico City on Thursday to denounce what they said is the use of German-made G36 assault rifles by police in southern Guerrero state. The police are accused of detaining the students and turning them over to a drug gang...
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The Ketamine Connection
From Far East karaoke bars to an unlikely English city - the story of how a worrying new drug trade is made in China.
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Mexico: Top drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman escapes
Top Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has escaped from a maximum security prison for the second time, security officials announced late Saturday.
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Mexican Drug Kingpin, El Chapo, Escapes Prison Through Tunnel
The prison break of Joaquín Guzmán Loera humiliated the Mexican government, which had touted his capture as a crucial achievement in the drug war.
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Mexico: Making the Dogs Dance
Within a few hours of his relaxed escape from Mexico’s highest security prison early Saturday evening, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, better known as “el Chapo” for his stocky build, was back on Twitter. By Alma Guillermoprieto.
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Narco State: Inside Mexico's Drug Labs [2015]
In this Sky News special report, one of Mexico's most infamous cartels gives correspondent Stuart Ramsay unprecedented access to its industrial-scale drug labs. Across the country, gangs are profiting from the insatiable appetite for illegal drugs like crack cocaine and methamphetamine from neighbouring America and, further afield, Europe.
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Public Enemy? At Home in Mexico, ‘El Chapo’ Is Folk Hero No. 1
When José Antonio Sevilla and his three brothers learned that the notorious drug trafficker known as El Chapo had escaped from prison, they jumped out of their chairs and shouted with glee. “El Chapo got out! He’s the greatest of them all,” said Mr. Sevilla, 19, a self-professed fan of the drug kingpin, whose full name is Joaquín Guzmán Loera. “He was famous before, but now he’s even more famous.”
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‘Cartel’ Author Spins A Grand Tale Of Mexico’s Drug Wars — Fresh Air
Novelist Don Winslow spent 10 years researching the Mexican drug wars. His new novel, The Cartel, reveals "a new generation of cartel leaders that are more violent, more sadistic" than ever before.
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‘There’s No Real Fight Against Drugs’
Discussing the escape of Mexico’s most notorious drug lord with an ex-cartel operative, a Mexican intelligence official, and an American counternarcotics agent.
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'There's No Real Fight Against Drugs'
The slight man at the breakfast table seemed more like an evangelical minister than someone who once brokered deals between Mexican drug lords and state governors. He wore a meticulously pressed button-down, a gold watch, gold-rimmed glasses, and a gold cross around his neck. His dark brown hair was styled in a comb-over. And when his breakfast companions started to tuck into their bowls of oatmeal and plates of salmon benedict...
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90 Pounds Of Cocaine Found On Cargo Ship Owned By Anti-Drug Senator’s Family | TheSleuthJournal
A cargo ship connected to Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell was recently stopped and searched before departing from Colombia. During the search, Colombian Coast Guard agents seized roughly 90 pounds of cocaine. The drugs were found on the Ping May, which is a vessel operated by the Foremost Maritime Corporation, a company owned by Mitch McConnell’s in-laws, the Chao family.
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Damning report on missing Mexican students says 'justice neglected'
An independent Mexican commission said on Thursday it found serious flaws in an investigation into the apparent massacre of 43 students last year, dealing a fresh blow to President Enrique Pena Nieto over a scandal that has battered his administration. The case became a symbol of impunity over disappearances and plunged Pena Nieto into his deepest crisis after the 43 trainee teachers were abducted and very likely murdered by a drug gang working with corrupt police...
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