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HOUSTON - Two Houston men have admitted to holding a victim hostage at gunpoint, beating and threatening him with ... ordered the kidnapping. Mexican cartel members called the victim's family members and demanded $400,000 for his release. Law enforcement executed a staged pick up of the ransom money in Houston and were able to rescue the ...Los Zetas (pronounced [los ˈsetas], Spanish for "The Zs") is a Mexican criminal syndicate, known as one of the most dangerous of Mexico's drug cartels. They are known for engaging in brutally violent "shock and awe" tactics such as beheadings, torture, and indiscriminate murder.While primarily concerned with drug trafficking, the organization also runs profitable sex and gun rackets.MEXICO CITY (AP) — A gruesome video circulated Wednesday on social media may have recorded the last moments of five kidnapped young men, and has transported Mexico back to the darkest days of ...The government reports 3,726 people age 17 and younger went missing between January and October 2021. Without legislation, the responsibility for child recruitment falls just as much on the government as the cartels, Ramirez and other experts agreed. “Organized crime arose because the state failed.These are the drug lords behind Mexico's most powerful cartels. ( NewsNation) — With strongholds in nearly half of the 32 Mexican states and operations in as many as 50 countries, the Sinaloa drug cartel has a larger international footprint than any of its domestic rivals. At the top of the organization is Ismael Zambada Garcia, also known ...More than 70 people went missing in the mining city between January and March - nearly one person a day, and a fivefold increase compared with the same period in 2020. Over four days in February ...On today's episode of the 5 Things podcast: Mexican cartel apologizes for kidnapping, killing Americans A Mexican cartel has apologized for kidnapping and killing Americans last week. Plus, Senate ...Ovidio Guzman Lopez is charged in a separate indictment alleging the same offenses, dating from May 2008 until October 2021, when Mexican authorities arrested him on Jan. 5 in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. Ovidio Guzman Lopez remains detained in Mexico pending extradition proceedings.Reports from the Mexican border city of Matamoros say a splinter group of the Gulf Cartel, called the Scorpions Group, has apologised for kidnapping four US citizens last week, killing two of them ...Aug 18, 2023 · Five Mexican students were brutally murdered on camera by a cartel after allegedly being lured to meet for a fake job offer.. According to Daily Mail, the victims — Jaime Adolfo Martínez Miranda, 21; Dante Cedillo Hernández, 22; Diego Alberto Lara Santoyo, 20; Roberto Olmeda Cuellar, 20; and Uriel Galván González, 19 — were last seen on Friday (Aug. 11) in their hometown of Lagos de ... The Sinaloa cartel can buy a kilo of cocaine in the highlands of Colombia or Peru for around $2,000, then watch it accrue value as it makes its way to market. In Mexico, that kilo fetches more ...In Ecuador, an intelligence official said: “People consume abroad, but they don’t understand the consequences that take place here.”. Men detained during a police raid in suburb of Guayaquil ...A Mexican soldier points his rifle at a man, who had accused the soldier of having participated with other military members in the shooting deaths of five people, in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico February ...To understand why these sadist methods of punishment came to be, a history of Mexico’s drug cartels clarifies a lot. The earliest drug cartels started forming in the 1970s but it was in 2006 ...Mexican poet Javier Sicilia's son and six friends were killed by drug cartel hit men. Sicilia gave up writing and started a movement for peace and an end to war on drugs9 of 15 |. National Guard patrol the Zacatecas-Fresnillo highway after a series of recent attacks and clashes between drug cartels in Zacatecas state, Mexico, Tuesday, July 13, 2021. There are more than 100,000 guardsmen deployed in Mexico, plus the military, yet the bloodshed continues.FOX 35 Orlando. OCALA, Fla. (AP) - A confessed hit man for a Mexican drug cartel has been sentenced to life in prison in Florida for killing two men over a drug debt. The Ocala Star-Banner reports ...

Six men have been indicted on federal charges for allegedly being part of a scheme to smuggle weapons and ammunition to a violent Mexican cartel, officials announced Monday. Four of the men were ...12. Cartel War (2010) R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama. 4. Rate. L.A. undercover cops disregard the law to bring down the most powerful drug mob in the U.S. Loosely based on Mexico's once most powerful drug cartel leader, this journey into the drug underworld cuts to the bone and through the heart. Directors: Jack Lucarelli, Troy Price | Stars ...A man’s five-year stay at the New Yorker Hotel cost him only $200.57. Now it might cost him his freedom . Researchers are documenting deathbed visions , a phenomenon that seems to help the dying ...Which makes the threat of Mexican cartels somewhat less insurmountable — or, at the very least, it doesn't feel as much of a Sisyphean task to fight against them as a more cynical film like ...Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador described the slayings of five men in cartel-dominated Nuevo Laredo as an apparent “execution” and said soldiers would be held accountable.

The estimate of 175,000 “active cartel members” in Mexico at the end of 2022 captures both full-time and occasional employees, Prieto-Curiel said. Their ranks include peasants cultivating ...A Mexican drug cartel known for gruesome public slaughtering drained $40 million from Americans, and stole many elderly victims' life savings without a drop of blood in 2022, according to FBI ...…

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