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Mexican cartels have stolen over $300 million from American seniors in elaborate timeshare property scams
Older Americans are falling victim to massive timeshare fraud at the hands of Mexican cartels, the …
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Lindsey Graham is calling for the US to unleash its 'fury and might' to destroy the Mexican drug cartels
Graham said he isn't suggesting that the US should invade Mexico, but called for drug labs that are…
Cheryl Teh
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The night the Lord of the Skies got away
In 1985, US agents had a chance to stop Mexico's top drug lord. Years later, evidence from that nig…
Noah Hurowitz
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US nabs a cartel leader after El Chapo's son tricks him onto a flight across the border: report
FBI director Christopher Wray said both men had "eluded law enforcement for decades."
Geoff Weiss
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A Mexican bride was arrested when police ambushed her on the way to her wedding. The groom escaped.
A bride in Mexico was arrested heading into church on her wedding day for her alleged involvement i…
Joshua Zitser
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The cocaine trade is booming, and smugglers have their eyes on a new market
According to a Sinaloa Cartel operator, a kilo of cocaine in Europe is worth double what it goes fo…
Luis Chaparro
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The US ups its multimillion-dollar rewards for 2 Sinaloa cartel leaders as another war brews for control of the cartel
The US recently increased its rewards for two major cartel figures, and another was quietly release…
Luis Chaparro
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A drug cartel dumped an SUV filled with 10 corpses near the Christmas tree outside the offices of a Mexican governor, officials say
Mexico's president called the crime a "provocation," adding that it was the result of a drugs war i…
Joshua Zitser
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How smaller doses of more powerful drugs allowed Mexican cartels to overwhelm Mexican police and flood the US
"If Mexican authorities seized more than 100 kilograms, it means criminals are producing at least s…
Luis Chaparro
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Mexico's cartels are finding new ways to get their hands on a new kind of gun
The flow of black-market weapons facilitates cartel turf wars and has driven killings in Mexico to …
Luis Chaparro
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The US is offering $20 million for El Chapo's sons, but they're not the only 'narcojuniors' on the rise in Mexico's most powerful cartel
"They are a new litter, smarter but also more violent. They grew up around guns and killings, and i…
Luis Chaparro
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Mexico's war on cartels has created 400 new gangs that are taking on the police and cartels that are left
That proliferation has been a challenge and asset for major cartels, but it has overwhelmed Mexican…
Luis Chaparro
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Recent beachside attacks reveal a new cartel turf war in some of Mexico's most popular tourist destinations
Mexican officials said the recent spike in violence is a consequence of a "turf war" among local ga…
Luis Chaparro
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Trump wanted to send US troops into Mexico to hunt down drug cartels and asked about it repeatedly: report
Trump's top national-security aides pushed back, arguing that it would look like an invasion of a c…
Ryan Pickrell
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The American survivors of the deadly kidnapping by a Mexican cartel say their captors put guns to their heads and tried to force them to have sex
LaTavia Washington McGee and Eric Williams told CNN they are still reeling from the ambush in Mexic…
Natalie Musumeci
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Mexico's powerful Jalisco cartel is flexing its muscles at opposite ends of Latin America
According to cartel insiders and military sources, Mexico's Jalisco Cartel has its sights set on Si…
Luis Chaparro
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Arizona's GOP-led legislature expels lawmaker — a Republican — for promoting conspiracy theory about Democrats and drug cartels
Rep. Liz Harris came under fire for promoting a conspiracy theorist who claimed Democratic Gov. Kat…
Charles R. Davis
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The little-known story of how Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán tried to bring down friends and enemies from behind bars
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's little-known attempt at betrayal reflects a shameful fact of life withi…
Luis Chaparro
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The DEA says drug cartels are putting fentanyl in candy to sell to kids. Cartel operatives say it's 'actually the opposite.'
"Why would we want to make kids addicts? What good would that do to us?" an operative with Mexico's…
Luis Chaparro
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Recent arrests reveal more about how cartel wives help run operations for Mexico's powerful Sinaloa cartel
"Authorities don't pay much attention to the wives" of cartel members, a Sinaloa Cartel operative t…