Tag Archives: Guerreros Unidos

Guacamaya Leaks Link Mexican Cartel with Russian Special Forces

By KELIN DILLON Following the intentional leak of millions of emails from the Mexican Secretariat of Defense (Sedena) by hacktivist group Guacamaya, further investigation into the shared correspondence has revealed links between Mexican organized crime groups and former elements of the Russian special forces. According to emails sent “to the attention” of a certain General Efraín between May 2 and

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The View from the North: Ill Tidings South of the Border

OPINION By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Down Mexico way, a recent Reforma newspaper story is causing a lot of commotion and major concern. The original story was published in Spanish, but Pulse News Mexico published an analysis in English. It’s bad news, to say the least. As Pulse News Mexico’s Mark Lorenzana wrote: “The U.S. government has evidence that allegedly links members

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US Evidence Ties Mexican Military, Police to Guerreros Unidos Cartel

By MARK LORENZANA The U.S. government has evidence that allegedly links members of the drug-running criminal group Guerreros Unidos to the Mexican Army, Navy and municipal police of Iguala and Cocula, in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero. In a report by Mexican daily newspaper Reforma on Tuesday, Sept. 27, Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office of the Republic (FGR) presented to

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The Little Town that Could, and Did, and Then Didn’t, and Now Wants to Again

  By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS As a tourist destination, Iguala, the little town in the northeastern corner of the Mexican coastal state of Guerrero, gets a bad rap. Irreparably linked to the 2014 disappearance of 43 rural teachers’ college students who were allegedly disappeared by government forces in the nearby town of Ayotzinapa after they had commandeered a bus to travel

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Ebrard Wants to Extradite Zerón from Israel over Ayotzinapa Case

By KELIN DILLON Following the apprehension of former Mexican Federal Attorney General (FGR) Jesús Murillo Karam on Friday, Aug. 19, for his purported role in covering up the still-unsolved disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa students in 2014, Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Relations Marcelo Ebrard announced his intention to go after the former head of the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC) Tomás Zerón

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Parents of Missing Ayotzinapa Students Demand Investigation

By KELIN DILLON Seven years after 43 male students from Mexico’s Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College were kidnapped and disappeared on Sept. 26, 2014, the students’ parents have demanded the federal government and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) deepen investigation into the army’s purported role in the tragic event. Allegations and evidence of the 27 Infantry Battalion of Iguala’s involvement

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US Provides Mexico File on Ayotzinapa Disappearances

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Eight years after 43 teaching students disappeared from the Ayotzinapa university campus in the Guerrero town of Iguala after being detained by police for rioting, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said Monday, May 24, that the U.S. government will be helping his administration to further investigate the still-unresolved case. Speaking during his daily

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