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...A jury in Brooklyn returned the verdict on Tuesday, following a four-week trial in which members of the cartel once run by Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán testified that García Luna accepted millions of dollars...
...Under former president Felipe Calderón, who began a new combative approach to drug traffickers in 2006, Mexico’s murder rate exploded and has climbed since....
...Even if Guzmán survives as economy minister, he faces huge challenges....
...López Obrador released the son of jailed Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, met and shook the hand of Guzmán’s mother, and publicly apologised for using the drug lord’s nickname....
...Late last year, for example, the US arrested Genaro García Luna, the secretary of public security under former president Felipe Calderón, and charged him with taking bribes from Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán...
...Mr López Obrador intended his more peaceful approach to contrast with President Felipe Calderón’s doomed 2006-12 “war on drugs”, which sent violence skyrocketing, and the record of his immediate predecessor...
...(FT) Mexico’s president says predecessors should testify in graft case Andrés Manuel López Obrador has called on his two predecessors — Enrique Peña Nieto and Felipe Calderón — to testify about alleged...
...That allegation surfaced during Guzmán’s trial, when Jesús “El Rey” Zambada, a former cartel member and informant who testified against Guzmán said his brother — Guzmán’s partner, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada...
...Other appointments include Felipe Solá, a veteran Peronist politician and former governor of the province of Buenos Aires, as foreign minister, while Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro, a founding member of the militant...
...It follows another incident that made global headlines three weeks earlier, in which a bungled bid to arrest the son of jailed drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán sparked a cartel siege of the Sinaloa state...
...In just over a dozen years, since Mexico’s then president Felipe Calderón launched a disastrous war on drugs, more than 250,000 people have been killed and 40,000 have disappeared....
...But King Felipe VI’s consultations with smaller parties revealed the “giant puzzle” of the coalition-building task....
...The drama in the central state of Puebla this month — coming days after the authorities arrested the presumed successor to the legendary Sinaloa Cartel drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán — offered a painful...
...drama in the central state of Puebla earlier this month — coming days after the authorities’ victory with the arrest of the presumed successor to the legendary Sinaloa Cartel drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán...
...Martín Guzmán, another commander, says that whenever the rebels had sought peace in the past, they “were drawn into armed battle”....
...Two former Mexican presidents, Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón, both warn that Mr Trump is a dangerous demagogue....
...Former Mexican president Felipe Calderón’s failed war on drugs cost an estimated 100,000 lives; his successor, Enrique Peña Nieto, has changed tack but the escape of kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán underscores...
...As many as 100,000 people died under former president Felipe Calderón’s war on drugs....
...Mexico’s capture of drug lord Héctor Beltrán Leyva – the second major security coup this year after the rearrest of Mexico’s most wanted man, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán – could hardly have come at a better...
...Former Mexican president, Felipe Calderón, who hunted Mr Guzmán during his six years in government and created an intelligence unit within the Navy to track down crime cartel leaders, immediately congratulated...
...The government has taken enormous pains to distinguish itself from that of Mr Peña Nieto’s predecessor, Felipe Calderón, whose failed war on drugs cost as many as 80,000 lives and perpetuated an image of...
...it happened in August, on the watch of Enrique Peña Nieto, the president who since taking office last December has pointedly swerved debate away from the failed six-year war on drugs of his predecessor, Felipe...
...Known as “El Gordo” or “Fatty”, Mr Alfredo Guzmán is the son and financial manager of Joaquín “El Chapo” (“Shorty”) Guzmán, head of the country’s Sinaloa cartel....
...The previous administration led by centre-right former-president Felipe Calderón took particular issue with Forbes’ decision to include Guzmán in the first place....
...Alfredo Guzmán, also known as “El Gordo” or “Fatty”, is the son of Joaquín “El Chapo” or “Shorty” Guzmán, head of the country’s Sinaloa cartel, a gang considered responsible for trafficking cocaine and heroin...
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