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Following the capture of El Chapo’s son Ovidio Guzmán López this week, Mexican authorities announced that at least 29 people died during his arrest. Per Reuters, Mexican security forces captured the alleged drug trafficker on Thursday, and the city of Culicán was engulfed in violence between authorities and suspected gang members. During the dramatic arrest of […]
Multiple human skulls were discovered wrapped in plastic and foil at the Querétaro Intercontinental Airport in Mexico, regional authorities said in a recent news release. The National Guard in Mexico shared photos of the package in question last week, noting that the four skulls were “apparently of human origin” and were being shipped to South […]
14 people were killed and at least 24 inmates escaped after gunmen opened fire at a prison in Mexico early Sunday morning. In a statement obtained by ABC News, the Chihuahua state prosecutor’s office said gunfire erupted between an unspecified number of individuals and guards after several armored vehicles arrived at a state prison in Ciudad Juárez around 7 a.m., NPR reports. […]
The president of Mexico is attempting to rectify the Bad Bunny concert debacle. The Associated Press reports that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has implored the Puerto Rican superstar to host a free show in Mexico City for his fans. Bad Bunny played a sold-out show in Mexico’s capital last Friday, which unfortunately resulted in thousands […]
María Salud Ramírez Caballero, the woman believed to have been the inspiration behind the character Mama Coco in the 2017 Disney and Pixar film Coco , passed away on Sunday. She was 109. Her death was confirmed via Twitter by Roberto Monroy, Secretary of Tourism for the Mexican state of Michoacan. Caballero died in her […]
The Mexican military reportedly seized nearly 1.5 tons of methamphetamine headed toward the U.S. border. According to the Associated Press, the seizure took place at a checkpoint in the northern state of Sonora, which is bounded by New Mexico and Arizona. The country’s Defense Department said they conducted the search after receiving a tip about a truck transporting […]
Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was convicted of killing a U.S. DEA agent in 1985, was arrested on Friday by a joint law task force. Quintero, 66, was a cofounder of the Guadalajara Cartel and is portrayed in the hit Netflix series Narcos: Mexico. He was captured Friday night following a lengthy manhunt carried […]
Mexico’s army and National Guard announced on Thursday that they had conducted a “historic” drug raid on a warehouse in Culiacan, seizing a half-ton of fentanyl valued at around $230 million, CBS News reports. “This is the largest seizure in history of this lethal drug,” Assistant Public Safety Secretary Ricardo Mejia said. Upwards of 1,200 pounds of the […]
The Mexican drug cartel accused of carrying out the killings of nine women and children from an offshoot Mormon community has been ordered by a U.S. judge to pay $1.5 billion, bringing the total settlement over the desert massacre to $4.6 billion. As the Bismarck Tribune reported, North Dakota federal magistrate judge Clare Hochalter issued […]
A 23-year-old zookeeper in Mexico died of a heart attack Monday after he was attacked by a tiger while petting the animal, Metro reports. José de Jesús stood next to the chain-link fence enclosure and called over the Bengal tiger for feeding time. De Jesús extended his right hand through the gate to pet the tiger who initially […]
