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The Dark Period When ‘Los Chapitos’ Assassinated 16 Policemen

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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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Deutsche Welle: Morena Made ‘Electoral Narco-Pact’ with Cartel

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By MARK LORENZANA Anabel Hernández, a Mexican investigative journalist with Germany’s esteemed state-run news agency Deutsche Welle, said in her weekly column on Friday, June 3, that officials from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) had made an “electoral narco-pact” with members of the Sinaloa Drug Cartel leading up to the June 5 gubernatorial elections.

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