The leader of Los Zetas of Cancún captured
On Saturday the 27, military intelligence officials detained the leader of Los Zetas of Cancún, Erick Alejandro Martínez Lopez, alias el Motokles, at the Mexico City airport. The National Defense …
Month: March 2010
Six individuals found dead in Morelos
Yesterday morning the municipal police of Morelos found the bodies of six individuals who were murdered in two separate occasions. Authorities stated that the bodies were found in different areas …
Five myths about Mexico’s drug war
The Justice in Mexico Project collaborated with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on this article from the Washington Post. In Mexico last week, Secretary of State Hillary …
March 2010 news report
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U.S identifies 54 members of the cartel groups Cartel del Golfo and Los Zetas under the Kingpin Act
On Wednesday, the U.S Department of the Treasury identified and formally classified fifty-four drug trafficking members of the Cartel del Golfo and Los Zetas cartels as “Specifically Designated Narcotics Traffickers” …
Captured: King of Heroin and Colombian money launderers
José Antonio Medina Arreguín, otherwise known by his alias Don Pepe or as the King of Heroin (el Rey de la Heroína), was arrested in the state of Michoacán by the …
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Mexican deputy criticizes Oklahoma’s remittance tax
The Mexican Chamber of Deputies is set to propose a resolution on March 25 urging the federal government to protest a remittance tax by the US state of Oklahoma. In …
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Missing police officers found dismembered
During the early hours of Monday in Acapulco and the capital of Guerrero, Chilpancingo, four people were executed, including a regional commander and a police officer, whose bodies were found …
Two students die in crossfire
On Monday, the interior minister Fernando Gómez Mont held a private meeting with the governor of Nuevo León, Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz, after two Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM) students, …
Military prosecutor: some armed forces corrupted, serving time
40 members of the armed forces are currently serving time in military prisons for having links to drug-trafficking organizations. General José Luis Chávez García, the head of the Attorney General Office of …
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