The remains were found at the bottom of a 40-meter ravine in the Zapopan suburb of Guadalajara in the central western state of Jalisco, not far from where the missing call center operators had worked
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When asked about the possibility of an agreement with the cartels, AMLO said that he would “support anything that would mean stopping Mexico’s ongoing violence”
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The apparent split in the alleged partnership between the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and the Familia Michoacana Cartel is worrisome due to the impact this may have on the state’s security
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — In the last two years, the pharmaceutical industry in the world has had to work at a forced march. The excessive demand for medical supplies and the extreme pressure for the creation of drugs for a virus that was then technically new to humanity impacted the global production line of drugs. This pandemic also brought
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The evolution of Mexico’s cartels over the last decades has been exponential and incredibly abrupt. Despite much-touted government efforts to dismantle and eradicate these criminal groups since the beginning of the drug war in 2006, these criminal organizations have managed not only to survive, but to thrive, strengthening and strategically expanding beyond the country’s
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Based on the Guacamaya Leaks — a collection of over 4 million confidential Mexican government documents that were released in early October by a group of national hackers exposing how the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been monitoring journalists using Israeli Pegasus spyware and how the military under his regime sold arms to
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By KELIN DILLON According to a new report from U.S. intelligence, Mexican cartels have begun sponsoring chemistry degrees for some of their members in an effort to expand fentanyl production, attempting to keep up with the high demand for the drug – which has now supposedly passed both heroin and cocaine in recreational use. The intel likewise revealed that these
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By MARK LORENZANA Ricardo Mejía Berdeja, Mexican Undersecretary of Public Security, announced on Wednesday, Oct. 13, that César Augusto “N,” alias El Gafe — the alleged leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) involved in the shooting at a shopping center in Zapopan, Jalisco, on the afternoon of Oct. 2 — was arrested. In a press conference, Mejía Berdeja explained that El
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By MARK LORENZANA The criminal group Los Tequileros claimed responsibility for the attacks on the afternoon of Wednesday, Oct. 5, in the Mexican coastal state of Guerrero’s municipality of San Miguel Totolapan, where its mayor — Conrado Mendoza of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) — and at least 17 other people were killed. Through a video shared on social
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) confirmed on Thursday, Sept. 29, the disappearance of two elements of Mexico’s Secretariat of the Navy (Semar) since March of this year in Acapulco, Guerrero. AMLO, however, denied that the sailors had been assigned as permanent bodyguards of José Narro Céspedes, a senator from López Obrador’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena). During his daily morning press
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