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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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If Only Wishing Made It So

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OPINION By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Over the weekend, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) paid a visit to the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, home of infamous drug lord and founder of the Sinaloa Cartel Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, currently in a U.S. high-security prison on 17 counts of homicide, drug trafficking, conspiracy, organized crime against health, money laundering, homicide and

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FGR Obtains Arrest Warrants in ‘Fast and Furious’ Case

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By KELIN DILLON On Sunday, Jan. 9, Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) obtained seven arrest warrants for individuals involved in the so-called “Operation Fast and Furious” gun-walking case, including known drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, former Mexican Secretary of Public Security Genaro García Luna, and former Police Intelligence Coordinator Luis Cárdenas Palomino. In a statement by

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El Chapo’s Wife Get Three-Year Sentence in US

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of infamous drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman, was sentenced to three years in a U.S. federal prison on Tuesday, Nov. 30, for her alleged involvement in her husband’s Sinaloa Drug Cartel. The 32-year-old Coronel Aispuro, a former teenage beauty queen, had pleaded guilty on three federal counts, including money

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AMLO Officially Announces 250 Million Peso Lottery

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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) officially announced the grand draw from Mexico’s National Lottery taking place in September, with prizes including box seats at the Azteca Stadium and the former residences of several drug lords. The lottery initiative was previously revealed to the public on May 24, and features more than 250 million pesos worth

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El Chapo’s Wife to Plead Guilty to Complicity in Drug Dealing

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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of infamous jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, is expected to plead guilty on Thursday, June 10, to charges of helping her husband run his multibillion-dollar empire and aiding in one of his escapes from the high-security Mexican prison, according to a person familiar with the case. Coronel

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Sinaloa Druglord ‘El Güero’ Palma Ordered Released from Prison

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By KELIN DILLON On Saturday, May 1, purported founding member of Mexico’s Sinaloa Drug Cartel Héctor Luis Palma Salazar, better known as “El Güero,” was acquitted of all charges relating to drug trafficking by Jalisco’s Second District Court of Federal Criminal Proceedings, and ordered immediately released. Known for being a close confidant of notorious drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán

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Mexican Kingpin “El Mencho” Funds Jalisco Hospital

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By KELIN DILLON Reports coming from the Mexican state of Jalisco say that infamous drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, better known as “El Mencho,” has built his own hospital in the region in an unusual gesture of goodwill for the increasingly violent crime boss, and also in an apparent attempt to help combat the kidney disease he apparently suffers from.

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