Seven bodies found dumped at Mexico tourist area
2 years, 6 months ago

Seven bodies found dumped at Mexico tourist area

The Independent  

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Mexican authorities find 11 clandestine graves with 15 bodies near border with Guatemala
1 week, 4 days ago

Mexican authorities find 11 clandestine graves with 15 bodies near border with Guatemala

Associated Press  

TAPACHULA, Mexico — Eleven clandestine graves with the bodies of 15 men were located in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, where a dispute between the Sinaloa and Jalisco Nueva Generación drug cartels is taking place, local authorities said Sunday. Eduardo Ramírez Aguilar said on his social media channels that the findings came as the result of a raid in …

7 inmates are dead after a prison riot in southern Mexico
2 weeks, 6 days ago

7 inmates are dead after a prison riot in southern Mexico

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Seven inmates were killed in a prison riot in southern Mexico, when inmates resisting transfers to other jails fought police with guns and knives, authorities said. State police chief Víctor Hugo Chávez said late Thursday that officers were met by gunfire early in the day when they entered the prison to transfer two dangerous inmates to a …

US deports Mexico drug kingpin Guillen back home after 25-year sentence in American prison – Firstpost
3 weeks, 2 days ago

US deports Mexico drug kingpin Guillen back home after 25-year sentence in American prison – Firstpost

Firstpost  

Cardenas Guillen was captured in 2003 and extradited four years later to the United States, where he pleaded guilty to drug trafficking, money laundering and extortion U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement police officers hold drug lord Osiel Cardenas Guillen, who was deported and handed to Mexican authorities in Tijuana. Reuters Mexican drug kingpin Osiel Cardenas Guillen, former leader of the …

Notorious drug lord Osiel Cárdenas returned to Mexico after US sentence, is quickly re-arrested
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Notorious drug lord Osiel Cárdenas returned to Mexico after US sentence, is quickly re-arrested

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Notorious drug lord Osiel Cárdenas Guillén has been returned to Mexico after serving a U.S. sentence and was quickly re-arrested and sent to a maximum security prison to face Mexican charges. Homeland Security Department confirmed in its social media accounts Monday that Cárdenas Guillén had been returned after serving 14 years in U.S. custody, most of his …

Who is Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, dreaded drug lord known as 'friend killer'
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3 weeks, 2 days ago

Who is Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, dreaded drug lord known as 'friend killer'

India Today  

Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, the notorious drug lord and former leader of the Gulf Cartel, has returned to Mexico after serving a 14-year prison sentence in the United States, CBS News has reported. Known by his chilling nickname, El Mata Amigos, Cárdenas Guillén is infamous for his brutal methods and leadership of one of Mexico’s most violent criminal organizations. Under Cárdenas …

6 Guatemalans arrested and charged with human smuggling in deadly 2021 Mexico truck crash
4 weeks, 2 days ago

6 Guatemalans arrested and charged with human smuggling in deadly 2021 Mexico truck crash

LA Times  

Body bags holding victims of a deadly semitrailer truck crash are lined up by the roadside in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas state, in southern Mexico, three years ago. Six Guatemalans have been arrested in Guatemala and Texas on human smuggling charges linked to a 2021 semitrailer truck crash in Mexico that killed more than 50 migrants, authorities said. It said the …

Fear and loathing in Culiacan, Sinaloa
1 month ago

Fear and loathing in Culiacan, Sinaloa

Al Jazeera  

‘The situation’ in the home city of one of Mexico’s most notorious cartels is explosive and likely to get much worse with Trump’s return to power. As the US Council on Foreign Relations noted in August, shortly after El Mayo’s detention, Mexico “has seen more than 431,000 homicides since 2006, when the government declared war on the cartels” with US …

Six dead and 10 wounded in Mexico bar shooting
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Six dead and 10 wounded in Mexico bar shooting

Deccan Chronicle  

At least six people were killed and 10 wounded early Sunday in an armed attack at a bar in the city of Villahermosa, in the southeastern Mexican state of Tabasco, local authorities said. "Armed persons" entered the bar "looking for a specific person" and the shots hit those nearby, state deputy prosecutor Gilberto Melquiades said at a press conference, adding …

11 bodies found in Mexico truck were of missing group: prosecutors
2 months ago

11 bodies found in Mexico truck were of missing group: prosecutors

Raw Story  

The 11 people, including four minors, found dead in a pickup truck in southern Mexico were part of a group reported missing last month, authorities in Guerrero state said Friday. Their bodies were found on Wednesday night in a pickup truck on an avenue in Guerrero's capital Chilpancingo, whose mayor was beheaded last month less than a week after taking …

Police find 11 bodies dumped by a highway in southern Mexico and 4 more in the resort of Acapulco
2 months ago

Police find 11 bodies dumped by a highway in southern Mexico and 4 more in the resort of Acapulco

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Police in a southern Mexico region rife with drug cartel violence have found 11 bodies, including two minors, dumped by a highway, prosecutors in the state of Guerrero said Thursday. The 11 bodies were found late Wednesday after police received a tip about an abandoned pickup truck on the main thoroughfare of the city of Chilpancingo, the …

11 bodies, including two minors, found dumped beside a highway in southern Mexico
2 months ago

11 bodies, including two minors, found dumped beside a highway in southern Mexico

LA Times  

Police in a southern Mexico region rife with drug cartel violence found 11 bodies, including two of minors, dumped by a highway, prosecutors in the state of Guerrero said Thursday. The bodies were found late Wednesday after police received a tip about an abandoned pickup truck on the main thoroughfare of the city of Chilpancingo, the state capital. The city …

Police and Prosecutors Conspire to Cover Up Murder of Drug Opponent
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Police and Prosecutors Conspire to Cover Up Murder of Drug Opponent

Associated Press  

Police, prosecutors, and forensic examiners in Mexico's Sinaloa state conspired to cover up the killing of an opponent's rival drug lord. The body of an imprisoned drug lord, Héctor Cuén, was found at the crime scene, but the authorities have been unable to solve the riddle surrounding the number of gunshot wounds and the post-mortem records. The incident has complicated …

Case of Mexico's 43 missing students persists among tens of thousands of disappearances
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Case of Mexico's 43 missing students persists among tens of thousands of disappearances

The Independent  

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Notorious Mexican drug cartel kingpin dubbed ‘Friend Killer’ released from US prison
4 months, 1 week ago

Notorious Mexican drug cartel kingpin dubbed ‘Friend Killer’ released from US prison

The Independent  

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Mexico convicts 11 cartel gunmen in killings of 122 bus passengers near US border over 2 years
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Mexico convicts 11 cartel gunmen in killings of 122 bus passengers near US border over 2 years

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Mexican prosecutors finally won convictions — and 50-year prison sentences — Wednesday against 11 drug cartel gunmen for the 2010-2011 massacre of 122 passengers who were pulled off passing buses and forced to fight each other to the death with sledgehammers. Prosecutors in Tamaulipas state said at the time that members of the now-splintered Zetas cartel began …

Guatemalan police arrest 7 accused of trafficking the 53 migrants who asphyxiated in Texas in 2022
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Guatemalan police arrest 7 accused of trafficking the 53 migrants who asphyxiated in Texas in 2022

The Independent  

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Gang violence in Mexico: 19 bodies discovered in latest grisly find
6 months, 1 week ago

Gang violence in Mexico: 19 bodies discovered in latest grisly find

LA Times  

Social media users in Mexico have been circulating a video featuring especially grisly images: a tangle of bloodied bodies, some in tactical gear, lying in a dump truck. This week, Mexican authorities said they discovered 19 bodies on an isolated dirt road, the latest deaths in a brutal trafficking war that has convulsed Mexico’s poorest and southernmost state. “The traffic …

Police find 7 bodies, 5 of them decapitated and 1 dismembered, in Mexico’s fifth largest city
9 months ago

Police find 7 bodies, 5 of them decapitated and 1 dismembered, in Mexico’s fifth largest city

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Authorities in one of Mexico’s largest cities said Friday they have found seven bodies with five of them decapitated and another completely dismembered, in a car left in the middle of traffic on a main expressway. “On each of the bodies, we found hand-written messages written on paper, each one detailing the reason they were killed,” said …

Vigilante mob in Mexico tourist city brutally beats woman accused of kidnapping girl
9 months, 1 week ago

Vigilante mob in Mexico tourist city brutally beats woman accused of kidnapping girl

The Independent  

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13 charged in Mexican Mafia collection racket in L.A. County jails
9 months, 3 weeks ago

13 charged in Mexican Mafia collection racket in L.A. County jails

LA Times  

A tier of Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles is shown. Authorities this week charged 13 people with collecting money from drug sales and extorted commissary goods inside the Los Angeles County jails on behalf of Michael “Mosca” Torres, a Mexican Mafia member who controlled the jail rackets until his death in July. On a recorded jail phone in …

Mexican journalist says he was abducted, beaten and questioned by armed men about his reporting
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Mexican journalist says he was abducted, beaten and questioned by armed men about his reporting

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — A prominent journalist who went missing this week in western Mexico said Wednesday he was abducted, beaten and questioned by an armed gang about his reporting before being let go with a warning to tone down his journalism. Authorities confirmed that radio and television anchor Jaime Barrera, who has written about drug cartel violence, was found alive …

Mexican journalist says he was abducted, beaten and questioned by armed men about his reporting
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Mexican journalist says he was abducted, beaten and questioned by armed men about his reporting

LA Times  

Photos of slain journalists are displayed on a wall in Mexico City during a vigil in 2022 to protest the murder of journalist Fredid Roman. A prominent journalist who went missing this week in western Mexico said Wednesday he was abducted, beaten and questioned by an armed gang about his reporting before being let go with a warning to tone …

4 soldiers killed in ‘trap’ in central Mexico, president says
10 months, 1 week ago

4 soldiers killed in ‘trap’ in central Mexico, president says

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — An improvised explosive device killed at least four soldiers in what President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday was a “trap” likely set by a drug cartel. The soldiers were killed Thursday on the outskirts of the city of Aguililla in the embattled Mexican state of Michoacán, López Obrador said in a weekly news conference. “It weighs …

Mass shootings in Mexico become an issue in the presidential race
1 year ago

Mass shootings in Mexico become an issue in the presidential race

LA Times  

Men carry the coffin of one of the 11 people killed by gunmen at a Christmas party during his funeral in Salvatierra, Mexico, on Dec. 19, 2023. “The gunmen just went in and began shooting,” said Luis Almanza, whose son was among the revelers smashing a piñata and dancing to a live norteño band inside a former hacienda. “They wanted …

At least 11 dead after clash between gang and villagers in central Mexico
1 year, 1 month ago

At least 11 dead after clash between gang and villagers in central Mexico

Al Jazeera  

At least 11 people have been killed in a violent confrontation between suspected gang members and residents of a small farming town in central Mexico, authorities have said. Local media said gunmen belonging to Familia Michoacana, a drug cartel blamed for the massacre of 20 people in neighbouring Guerrero state last year, had arrived at the village demanding local farmers …

Mexico extradites Ovidio Guzmán López, son of Sinaloa cartel leader ‘El Chapo’, to United States
1 year, 3 months ago

Mexico extradites Ovidio Guzmán López, son of Sinaloa cartel leader ‘El Chapo’, to United States

The Independent  

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Mexican Mafia member who ran Ventura County rackets is killed in Baja California, authorities say
1 year, 3 months ago

Mexican Mafia member who ran Ventura County rackets is killed in Baja California, authorities say

LA Times  

Martin Madrigal Cazares, shown in an undated photograph, was killed earlier this month in Baja California, authorities say. Martin Madrigal Cazares, a fugitive Mexican Mafia member who controlled gangs in Ventura County from a base in Mexico where he developed a drug-trafficking network and brought California-style prison politics to Mexican lockups, was gunned down earlier this month in Baja California, …

Gruesome video circulating on social media recalls darkest days of Mexico’s drug cartel brutality
1 year, 4 months ago

Gruesome video circulating on social media recalls darkest days of Mexico’s drug cartel brutality

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — A gruesome video circulated Wednesday on social media may have recorded the last moments of five kidnapped young men, and has transported Mexico back to the darkest days of drug cartel brutality in the 2000s. Luis Méndez Ruiz, the Jalisco state attorney general, said Tuesday that the men seen in the video “could be the five men …

Eleven killed after drunk man returns to fire-bomb bar in Mexico border city
1 year, 5 months ago

Eleven killed after drunk man returns to fire-bomb bar in Mexico border city

The Independent  

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Roadway bombs planted by drug cartel in Mexico kill 4 police officers, 2 civilians
1 year, 5 months ago

Roadway bombs planted by drug cartel in Mexico kill 4 police officers, 2 civilians

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — A drug cartel set off a coordinated series of seven roadway bombs in western Mexico that killed four police officers and two civilians, officials said Wednesday. It appeared to be the first time that a Mexican cartel killed law enforcement personnel with improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, and was the latest example of the increasingly open, military-style …

Mexico investigates possible case of extrajudicial killings by soldiers
1 year, 7 months ago

Mexico investigates possible case of extrajudicial killings by soldiers

The Hindu  

Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office is investigating a possible case of extrajudicial killings by soldiers that left five men dead in May in the northern border city of Nuevo Laredo, according to a federal official. The incident would be at least the second case of apparently extrajudicial killings in Nuevo Laredo this year. The men were apparently unarmed and in a …

Mexico authorities find 45 bags filled with body parts in search for seven missing call centre workers
1 year, 7 months ago

Mexico authorities find 45 bags filled with body parts in search for seven missing call centre workers

The Independent  

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Mass shooting in Texas: Francisco Oropesa and partner were ‘plotting escape to Mexico’ after Cleveland massacre
1 year, 8 months ago

Mass shooting in Texas: Francisco Oropesa and partner were ‘plotting escape to Mexico’ after Cleveland massacre

The Independent  

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Mexico charges 4 soldiers with killings in Nuevo Laredo
1 year, 8 months ago

Mexico charges 4 soldiers with killings in Nuevo Laredo

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Mexican prosecutors formally presented homicide charges Monday against four soldiers implicated in the Feb. 26 shooting deaths of five men in the border city of Nuevo Laredo. The civilian court system said the four soldiers will be held in pre-trial detention at an army base in Mexico City which houses a military prison. The report claimed those …

US tourist shot in leg at Mexican resort of Puerto Morelos
1 year, 9 months ago

US tourist shot in leg at Mexican resort of Puerto Morelos

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — A U.S. tourist was shot in the leg by unidentified assailants at a resort town on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, prosecutors in the coastal state of Quintana Roo said Tuesday. The U.S. State Department issued a travel alert earlier this month warning travelers to “exercise increased caution,” especially after dark, at Mexico’s Caribbean beach resorts like Cancun, Playa …

Video of kidnap Americans entering Mexico emerges as five suspects turned in by Gulf cartel confirmed arrested
1 year, 9 months ago

Video of kidnap Americans entering Mexico emerges as five suspects turned in by Gulf cartel confirmed arrested

The Independent  

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Mexico kidnapping news: Gulf cartel sends apology for Matamoros attack as victims’ criminal records probed
1 year, 9 months ago

Mexico kidnapping news: Gulf cartel sends apology for Matamoros attack as victims’ criminal records probed

The Independent  

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Mexico Kidnapping and Killing of US Citizens Case: Diplomatic Rift Ensues despite Five Arrests
1 year, 9 months ago

Mexico Kidnapping and Killing of US Citizens Case: Diplomatic Rift Ensues despite Five Arrests

News 18  

Mexican authorities have arrested five people over the deadly kidnapping of a group of Americans, after the suspects were left in the street with their hands tied by alleged cartel members, officials said Friday. The two survivors, one of whom suffered a gunshot wound to the leg, were returned to the United States on Tuesday via a land border crossing, …

Letter claims Mexican cartel handed over men who killed Americans
1 year, 9 months ago

Letter claims Mexican cartel handed over men who killed Americans

Associated Press  

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico — A letter claiming to be from the Mexican drug cartel blamed for abducting four Americans and killing two of them condemned the violence and said the gang turned over to authorities its own members who were responsible. In a letter obtained by The Associated Press through a Tamaulipas state law enforcement official, the Scorpions faction of …

Mexico cartel apologises for kidnapping Americans, returns bodies
1 year, 9 months ago

Mexico cartel apologises for kidnapping Americans, returns bodies

Al Jazeera  

The cartel handed over five of its members suspected to be behind the abduction to authorities. Suspected drug cartel members have handed over five purported henchmen as a would-be apology for the abduction of four Americans in the Mexican border city of Matamoros, according to media and a source familiar with the investigation. It added that those individuals had gone …

What happened to the four Americans ensnared in a deadly Mexico cartel kidnapping?
1 year, 9 months ago

What happened to the four Americans ensnared in a deadly Mexico cartel kidnapping?

The Independent  

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Mexican drug cartel ‘apologises’ for deadly kidnapping of four Americans, blaming rogue members
1 year, 9 months ago

Mexican drug cartel ‘apologises’ for deadly kidnapping of four Americans, blaming rogue members

The Independent  

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The bodies of 2 Americans who were kidnapped in Mexico have been returned to the U.S.
1 year, 10 months ago

The bodies of 2 Americans who were kidnapped in Mexico have been returned to the U.S.

NPR  

The bodies of 2 Americans who were kidnapped in Mexico have been returned to the U.S. Enlarge this image toggle caption AP AP MATAMOROS, Mexico — The Mexican authorities returned the bodies of the two Americans killed in the border city of Matamoros. After autopsies were conducted, security forces escorted the remains of Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown late Thursday …

Why kidnapped Americans in Mexico became political theater
1 year, 10 months ago

Why kidnapped Americans in Mexico became political theater

LA Times  

When the truck with North Carolina plates crossed the border from Brownsville, Texas, to Matamoros, Mexico, on Friday, the so-called falcons in charge of monitoring the border area notified their bosses of the presence of four Americans. Ciro Gómez Leyva said on his popular national radio program that, “If the Mexican authorities put the effort they did to find the …

Photos show rescue of two American tourists from drug cartel stash house as dead friends identified
1 year, 10 months ago

Photos show rescue of two American tourists from drug cartel stash house as dead friends identified

The Independent  

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Survivors of deadly Mexico kidnapping being treated at Texas hospital
1 year, 10 months ago

Survivors of deadly Mexico kidnapping being treated at Texas hospital

Associated Press  

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico — A road trip to Mexico for cosmetic surgery veered violently off course when four Americans were caught in a drug cartel shootout, leaving two dead and two held captive for days in a remote region of the Gulf coast before they were rescued from a wood shack, officials said Tuesday. Their minivan crashed and was fired …

Deadly American kidnapping in Mexico: What you need to know
1 year, 10 months ago

Deadly American kidnapping in Mexico: What you need to know

Al Jazeera  

Four Americans were hauled off in a pick-up truck after allegedly being caught in the crossfire of a shootout between rival drug gangs. Four Americans were caught in a drug cartel shootout in Mexico with two killed and the others held captive for days in a remote region before being rescued. Mexican authorities frantically searched as the cartel allegedly involved …

Two of four Americans kidnapped in Mexico ‘tummy tuck’ trip are found dead
1 year, 10 months ago

Two of four Americans kidnapped in Mexico ‘tummy tuck’ trip are found dead

The Independent  

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What we know about the 4 Americans kidnapped in Mexico
1 year, 10 months ago

What we know about the 4 Americans kidnapped in Mexico

Associated Press  

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico — Four Americans who traveled to Mexico last week to seek health care got caught in a deadly shootout and were kidnapped by heavily armed men who threw them in the back of a pickup truck, officials from both countries said Monday. “To see a member of your family thrown in the back of a truck and …

2 surviving Americans who were kidnapped in Mexico are back in the U.S.
1 year, 10 months ago

2 surviving Americans who were kidnapped in Mexico are back in the U.S.

NPR  

2 surviving Americans who were kidnapped in Mexico are back in the U.S. Enlarge this image toggle caption Stringer/AP Stringer/AP Two of the four Americans who were held captive and survived a kidnapping in Mexico last week were taken back into the U.S. shortly before noon on Tuesday amid a heavily armed convoy of Mexican military Humvees and National Guard …

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