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...Some 111,049 people are missing in Mexico, mostly since 2006 when former president Felipe Calderón sent the military to take on drug cartels. Homicides began to jump soon after that....
...One said he had been picked up four times by migration authorities; another said he had been hit on the head with a gun by cartel operatives he refused to pay....
...As well as violence wreaked by drug cartels, the armed forces have been accused of contributing to the bloodshed and carrying out serious human rights violations....
...A decade ago, the border city of Ciudad Juárez was Mexico’s murder capital. “It felt so far away then....
...As in Tepito, cartels are fighting for key markets and routes....
...In Mexico, it's no longer just the big drug cartels dishing out the violence. Smaller gangs battle over drug territory and extort local businesses....
...The rise of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and fragmentation of traditional cartels have also triggered bloody battles with rivals and security forces in different parts of the country....
...Javier Valdez, an award-winning reporter on cartel crime in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, was the latest journalist to be shot dead this year....
...For the moment, Mexico City is unlikely to become a violent outlier as Ciudad Juárez, Monterrey or Acapulco have been over parts of the past decade....
...Soapy telenovelas that run for unbroken stretches of 120 to 160 episodes are being traded for grittier series such Telemundo’s El Señor de los Cielos, based on the life of a leader of Mexico’s Juárez cartel...
...The Sinaloa Cartel boss had been fighting extradition by filing a battery of injunctions and claiming he had been mistreated in the jail in Ciudad Juárez, on the border with Texas, where he has spent the...
...The Sinaloa Cartel boss had been fighting extradition by filing a battery of injunctions and claiming he had been mistreated in the jail in Ciudad Juárez, on the border with Texas where he has spent the...
...In Denis Villeneuve’s movie Sicario, FBI agents chase drug cartels through the streets of Ciudad Juarez in cars with mounted guns, dressed in black body armour and fatigues....
...But with months of likely legal challenges to the decision ahead, the Sinaloa Cartel boss, nicknamed “Shorty”, is unlikely to be heading north any time soon....
...Directed by Denis Villeneuve, 2015 Lionsgate Nothing is black and white in this grimly mesmerising drug cartel thriller, it’s just plain black....
...In another case, Lesley Enriquez Redelfs, an employee of the US consulate office in border city Juárez, and her husband, Arthur, were ambushed and shot by members of the enforcement arm of the Juárez cartel...
...Many fall into the hands of cartels and human traffickers along the route....
...They see such grassroots campaigns as vital in a country struggling with rampant drug cartel-related violence and crime, Indeed, Mexico has thousands of barrios just as depressing and in need of rehabilitation...
...But Pope Francis will have another shot at him when he celebrates a mass along the US-Mexico border in Ciudad Juarez, facing El Paso, Texas, at the end of his trip....
...A sequence taking us to downtown Juárez in a convoy of FBI trucks is dizzyingly physical....
...month, Ramírez – who still acts as the head of the country’s Opec delegation after serving as president of the state-run company PDVSA – unsuccessfully called for an emergency meeting of the oil producers’ cartel...
...As for the Juárez cartel, the operational baton had already passed to two sons of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, with Vicente a mere figurehead, she says....
...Vicente Carillo Fuentes, alias “The Viceroy”, who had led the Juárez cartel since the death of his brother Armado, the “Lord of the Skies” while undergoing plastic surgery in 1997, was seized in Torreón...
...cartel was killed in 2009....
...Local business leaders in Ciudad Juárez, a city where the maquiladoras kept churning out manufactured goods even at the height of a wave of drug cartel-fuelled violence in recent years that earned it the...
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