By MARK LORENZANA On the morning of Sept. 30, 2016, a military convoy was ambushed by members of the Sinaloa Cartel on the highway that connects the municipalities of Badiraguato and Culiacán in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa. According to the version of the Mexican Army, three hours earlier, a military checkpoint tried to stop a truck in the
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By MARK LORENZANA Javier López Zavala, former secretary of the government under Mario Marín, who served as the governor of the central Mexican state of Puebla, was arrested Monday, June 6, in connection to the murder of longtime Mexican human rights worker and legal defender Cecilia Monzón. López Zavala is the ex-husband of Monzón. Monzón was shot dead in front
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XINHUA A police convoy was ambushed Thursday afternoon in Coatepec Harinas, a town in central State of Mexico (Edoméx)¿, killing 13 officers, according to local government reports. According to the state’s Security Secretary Rodrigo Martinez-Celis, members of the local police and the prosecutor’s office were ambushed while patrolling. Eight police officers and five prosecutors were killed in the attack, the
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