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Sinaloa Cartel Already Operating in Mexico City

By MARK LORENZANA Elements of the Citizen Security Secretariat (SSC) of the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office, in coordination with Mexico’s National Defense Secretariat (Sedena), have seized drug shipments, searched homes and even detained leaders of Los Chapitos (Little Chapos), a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, which has been attempting to expand its operations in Mexico City for almost a

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

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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US Offers $5 Million Each for Arrest of El Chapo’s Four Sons

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The U.S. government announced Wednesday, Dec. 15, that it will pay up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest of any of the four sons of renowned Sinaloa drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera. The announcement was made through the U.S. State Department and specified the names of the four sons,: Ovidio

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2020 Ranked as Second Most Violent Year in Mexico

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF For the second year in a row — and the second in Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) first two years of his six-year term — Mexico has registered more violent deaths than during any previous administration. According to official figures released in a report Thursday, Jan. 21, by the government’s own Executive

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Top Mexican Security Official Resigns

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Mexico’s Security and Public Protection Secretary Alfonso Durazo, a close friend and ally of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), confirmed his resignation from that post during the daily presidential press conference on Wednesday, Oct. 21. The 66-year-old Durazo said he was leaving the post in order to run for governor in the state of Sonora on

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