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Tactical Gear, Armoured Cars: The Deadly Militarisation Of Mexican Cartels
Over the past decade, CJNG evolved from a regional trafficking network into a structured armed organisation. Under El Mencho, the cartel expanded rapidly across several states and built strong international links, in synthetic drug trafficking
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New US Military-Led Group Aided Mexico's Hunt For 'El Mencho' Cartel Boss
A new US-military-led task force specialising in intelligence collection on drug cartels played a role in the Mexican military raid on Sunday that killed the Mexican drug lord known as 'El Mencho,' a US defense official told Reuters.
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Violence In Mexican Cartel Bastion Claims 150 Lives In A Month
A turf war broke out on September 9 between two factions of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of Mexico's most violent and powerful drug trafficking organizations.
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Hugs Or Bullets? Mexico Presidential Rivals Spar Over Ways To Curb Violence
Attack violent crime at its roots or go to war with powerful drug cartels? Mexican presidential candidates are offering contrasting strategies to deal with rampant insecurity.
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One-Sided Death Toll in Mexico Gunfight Raises Questions
Puddles of blood and bullet shells are some of the remnants of an intense gunfight on a western Mexico ranch that killed 42 criminal suspects and one police officer.
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Fourteen mutilated bodies found outside Mexican supermarket
Fourteen mutilated corpses and a threatening message aimed at a drug cartel were found inside a truck in the parking lot of a supermarket in a northern Mexico city, local media reported on Saturday. Mexico's attorney general's office could not immediately confirm the reports of the grisly discovery in Mante and police officials in the crime-ridden...
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At least 40 killed in Mexico drug war
Fighting among the Zetas gang and other vicious drug cartels led to the deaths of more than 40 people whose bodies were found in three Mexican cities over a 24-hour span, a government official said on Saturday.At least 20 people were killed and five injured when gunmen opened fire in a bar late on Friday in the northern city of Monterrey, where the...
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Women beheaded in Mexico, fourth in a week
Police found a woman's head in a bin bag next to a body in the street in Ciudad Juarez, in at least the fourth beheading in north Mexico since last week, justice officials said on Wednesday.An undisclosed message was written on a card next to the body, found yesterday, the attorney general's office said, without elaborating.Three decapitated bodies...
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20-year-old woman student is police chief of violent Mexican town
A 20-year-old criminology student, the only candidate for the position, was designated as police chief in the violence-plagued town of Guadalupe Distrito Bravo, Mexican media reported Tuesday.Marisol Valles Garcia took charge on Monday of security in the town, population 10,000, on the US border. The community is around 80 km east of Ciudad Juarez,...
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Tactical Gear, Armoured Cars: The Deadly Militarisation Of Mexican Cartels
Over the past decade, CJNG evolved from a regional trafficking network into a structured armed organisation. Under El Mencho, the cartel expanded rapidly across several states and built strong international links, in synthetic drug trafficking
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New US Military-Led Group Aided Mexico's Hunt For 'El Mencho' Cartel Boss
A new US-military-led task force specialising in intelligence collection on drug cartels played a role in the Mexican military raid on Sunday that killed the Mexican drug lord known as 'El Mencho,' a US defense official told Reuters.
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Violence In Mexican Cartel Bastion Claims 150 Lives In A Month
A turf war broke out on September 9 between two factions of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of Mexico's most violent and powerful drug trafficking organizations.
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Hugs Or Bullets? Mexico Presidential Rivals Spar Over Ways To Curb Violence
Attack violent crime at its roots or go to war with powerful drug cartels? Mexican presidential candidates are offering contrasting strategies to deal with rampant insecurity.
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One-Sided Death Toll in Mexico Gunfight Raises Questions
Puddles of blood and bullet shells are some of the remnants of an intense gunfight on a western Mexico ranch that killed 42 criminal suspects and one police officer.
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Fourteen mutilated bodies found outside Mexican supermarket
Fourteen mutilated corpses and a threatening message aimed at a drug cartel were found inside a truck in the parking lot of a supermarket in a northern Mexico city, local media reported on Saturday. Mexico's attorney general's office could not immediately confirm the reports of the grisly discovery in Mante and police officials in the crime-ridden...
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At least 40 killed in Mexico drug war
Fighting among the Zetas gang and other vicious drug cartels led to the deaths of more than 40 people whose bodies were found in three Mexican cities over a 24-hour span, a government official said on Saturday.At least 20 people were killed and five injured when gunmen opened fire in a bar late on Friday in the northern city of Monterrey, where the...
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Women beheaded in Mexico, fourth in a week
Police found a woman's head in a bin bag next to a body in the street in Ciudad Juarez, in at least the fourth beheading in north Mexico since last week, justice officials said on Wednesday.An undisclosed message was written on a card next to the body, found yesterday, the attorney general's office said, without elaborating.Three decapitated bodies...
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20-year-old woman student is police chief of violent Mexican town
A 20-year-old criminology student, the only candidate for the position, was designated as police chief in the violence-plagued town of Guadalupe Distrito Bravo, Mexican media reported Tuesday.Marisol Valles Garcia took charge on Monday of security in the town, population 10,000, on the US border. The community is around 80 km east of Ciudad Juarez,...
