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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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Cartel Kids Love to Brag on Instagram
Alfredo shared images on his Twitter of cheetahs, tigers, stacks of cash, and Lamborghinis. He also posted a photo of a dead man that was sent to him, seemingly a victim of his father’s dealings. Alfredo is careful to blur out faces in some of the photos, but he is not careful enough to deny himself the pleasure of bragging about the illustrious lifestyle he’s been able to live at the cost of others' lives.
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Grupo Carso es declarado preponderante por la IFT
América Móvil cuenta con 70% de participación en el sector de telefonía móvil
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Mexico kills drug kingpin reported dead years ago: official
A Mexican drug lord who had been reported dead more than three years ago was killed in a shootout with federal forces in western Mexico early on Sunday, a government official said. Nazario Moreno, a leader of a powerful criminal gang that has ravaged the western state of Michoacan, had been reported killed by the government in a firefight in December 2010. But his body was never recovered and he was widely believed to still be alive.
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Mexican cartel henchman arrested for killing children to harvest their organs
Atrocities committed by Mexican narcotics syndicates have reached a new low with the announcement that a henchman for the vicious Knights Templar has been arrested on suspicion of killing children by removing their internal organs.
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Drug dealers in Mexico 'made to eat children's hearts' to prove their loyalty to leader El Chayo
New members of a Mexican drug cartel were reportedly forced to eat children’s hearts as part of their initiation, according to authorities.
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For Migrants, New Land of Opportunity Is Mexico
Mexico, whose economic woes have pushed millions of people north, is increasingly becoming an immigrant destination. The country’s documented foreign-born population nearly doubled between 2000 and 2010, and officials now say the pace is accelerating as broad changes in the global economy create new dynamics of migration.
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Hundreds of children abandoned en route to US: Mexico
Authorities in Mexico have found more than 370 children dumped by people smugglers while trying to make their way into the United States. The National Institute of Migration (INM) said the huge number of children, from different nations in Central America, were discovered in just a single one-week period in March.
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Two Drug Tunnels, with Rail Systems, Found at U.S.-Mexico Border
U.S. federal agents have uncovered two drug-smuggling tunnels underneath the U.S.-Mexico border, both surfacing in San Diego-area warehouses and equipped with rail systems for moving contraband, officials said on Friday. The discovery led to the arrest of a 73-year-old woman accused of running one of the warehouses connected to a drug smuggling operation, according to a joint news release by four federal agencies.
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Dozens reported dead in Mexico bus crash
A passenger bus slammed into a broken-down truck and burst into flames, killing at least 36 people Sunday in southern Mexico, the Veracruz state government reported. Both state and federal officials said that four people survived the crash, which occurred shortly after midnight in the southeastern state of Veracruz.
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Powerful earthquake rattles Mexico, shakes buildings
A powerful earthquake struck Mexico on Friday, shaking buildings in the capital and sending people running out into the street, although there were no early reports of major damage.
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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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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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Over 1,000 Mayan Codices Discovered in Yucatan Ruins
Deep inside the jungle of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, near the pre-hispanic city of Uxmal, a team of archeologist from the university of Boston in collaboration with local archeologists from the University of Mexico, have uncovered yet another pyramidal structure estimated to be 1,100 years old.
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Was Torture the Key to Bringing Down a Kingpin?
One question raised by the successful capture, in Mexico, of Joaquin (El Chapo) Guzmán, which I recount in the magazine this week, is whether one decisive tool that Mexican authorities used to find the elusive leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel was torture.
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Who Will Watch the Watchers?
In an increasingly militarized zone along the Rio Grande, there are more border patrol agents on the ground than ever before, and more violent clashes between agents and Mexican citizens. Which raises a fundamental concern: Who will watch the watchers?
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Before you bust out the margaritas, here's why you're celebrating Cinco de Mayo
Instead of worrying about the rising price of limes for your margs this Cinco de Mayo, why not learn a bit about why this date is celebrated to begin with?
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Americans Are Going to Juarez for Cheap Dental Care
Jessica Nitardy, a Mexican dentist, says the majority of her clients are Americans who can't afford treatment in the U.S.
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Under The Volcano
We love Mexican drugs. Maybe not you personally, but “we”, as a nation, certainly consume titanic amounts of them—and go to extraordinary lengths and expense to acquire them. We love Mexican music, Mexican beaches, Mexican architecture, interior design, Mexican films. So, why don’t we love Mexico?
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Grand Closing: America’s Pot Farmers Are Putting Mexican Cartels Out of Business
For the first time in generations, farmers in central Mexico have stopped planting marijuana. Due to ample supplies up north, courtesy of medical and recreational cannabis legalization, cartel farmers can’t make any money off pot anymore, they told the Washington Post this week. The price for a pound of Mexican marijuana has plummeted 75 percent from $100 per kilogram to less than $25.
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