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The Associated Press » Drug Cartels
2d ago
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández took the witness stand in his defense at his New York trial, denying that he teamed up with drug dealers to protect them in return for millions of dollars in bribes ..read more
2 detectives found safe after disappearing while looking into Mexico’s 2014 case of missing students
The Associated Press » Drug Cartels
2d ago
Two detectives looking for 43 students who went missing almost 10 years ago were found unharmed after they themselves disappeared in Mexico’s Pacific coast state of Guerrero ..read more
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2d ago
The inhabitants of Copenhagen’s freewheeling Christiania neighborhood are planning to dig up the aptly named Pusher Street, in their latest attempt to stop illegal hashish sales which have led to deadly gang turf wars and sometimes violent confrontations with the police ..read more
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1w ago
A Roman Catholic priest in Mexico says churchmen have helped arrange a truce between two warring drug cartels whose turf wars have blooded the state of Guerrero ..read more
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3w ago
Authorities in one of Mexico’s largest cities say they have found seven bodies — five of them decapitated and another completely dismembered — in a car left in the middle of traffic on a main expressway ..read more
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1M ago
A Roman Catholic bishop in Mexico says he and three other bishops met with drug cartel bosses in a bid to negotiate a possible peace accord in the violent southern state of Guerrero ..read more
Mexican police hit the beaches after killings in Acapulco, as cartels recruit youths on social media
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1M ago
Tourists have barely started trickling back into the Mexican resort of Acapulco, but the gangland killings on the beaches have already returned ..read more
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1M ago
Mexico is acknowledging that at least two well-known Mayan ruin sites are unreachable by visitors because of cartel violence or land disputes ..read more
The Associated Press » Drug Cartels
1M ago
A prominent journalist in western Mexico says he was abducted, beaten and questioned by an armed gang because of what he wrote ..read more
The Associated Press » Drug Cartels
1M ago
Authorities say a former jail officer in Phoenix has been sentenced to two years in prison for smuggling drugs into the detention facility where he worked ..read more