Police in northern Mexico have captured a suspected member of the Zetas drug cartel, who confessed to killing at least 75 people, authorities announced Monday. Enrique Elizondo Flores admitted to investigators that 36 of his victims were bus passengers traveling through the town of Cerralvo, near the Texas border, according to Nuevo Leon state security [...]
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Mexican security forces killed a top aide to the country’s most wanted drug trafficker in a raid in a mountainous area of northern Mexico, defense officials said Monday. Luis Alberto Cabrera Sarabia, alias “The Architect,” was killed Friday during an air and ground operation in Canatlan, Durango state. The action began with a firefight at [...]
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An American military aircraft helped monitor the deadly 2010 raid by Jamaican security forces to capture a fugitive crime boss, that country’s prime minister has admitted, in spite of earlier denials by his government. The U.S. P-3 Orion provided aerial surveillance of the operation to arrest Christopher “Dudus” Coke, Prime Minister Andrew Holness told reporters [...]
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Mexico’s violent Zetas drug cartel has released a new statement challenging the governments of both Mexico and the United States. “Message to the nation, the government, and all of Mexico and to public opinion: The special forces of Los Zetas challenges the government of Mexico and its federal forces,” said the communique, which was signed by [...]
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Mexican soldiers have arrested Ovidio Limon Sanchez, a top lieutenant of the Sinaloa Cartel and one of the DEA’s highest profile targets. Captured in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa state on Mexico’s Pacific coast, Limon Sanchez was described by that country’s Defense Ministry as being on the ten most-wanted list and “one of the most [...]
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Brazilian police on Thursday captured the most wanted narcotrafficker in Rio de Janeiro, as they took steps to occupy the largest slum in that city in preparation for the 2016 Olympic Games. Antonio Bonfim Lopes, alleged druglord in the Rocinha neighborhood, was captured in unusual circumstances, hiding in the trunk of a luxury car belonging [...]
In another setback for Latin America’s oldest guerrilla army, FARC rebel leader Guillermo Leon Saenz was killed in Colombia on Friday. According to Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon, Saenz, who was better known by his battle moniker Alfonso Cano, was tracked down in the southern department of Cauca. He had already been on the run [...]
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon this week accused the United States of dumping criminals at the border to avoid the cost of prosecuting them, and claimed the practice has increased violence in Mexico’s border region. US officials have reported a record number of deportations in fiscal year 2011, and said the number deported with criminal convictions [...]
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After nearly four years and 40,000 dead, Mexican president Felipe Calderón’s offensive against the five major drug cartels in his country has left two of them dominating the market. While other organizations have been hampered or fragmented by the arrest or killing of their leaders, the Zetas and the Sinaloa Cartel have taken advantage of [...]
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Christoper “Dudus” Coke has pleaded guilty to trafficking three tons of marijuana and 30 lbs of cocaine into the US, as well as ordering the stabbing of a New York drug dealer. Coke, 42, told a judge in New York: “I’m pleading guilty because I am.” He said: “I also ordered the purchase of firearms [...]
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