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Cartel video shows gunmen shooting, kicking and burning bodies
Drug cartels in Mexico frequently make videos of dead or captured gang members to intimidate or threaten rivals.
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Drug cartels in Mexico frequently make videos of dead or captured gang members to intimidate or threaten rivals.
Police responding to reports of a criminal gang clash found 5 bodies in a remote Mexican town not far from the location of a 2020 massacre.
The clashes happened in the same area where four U.S. citizens, two of whom later died, were kidnapped at gunpoint last year.
Mexican police hit the beaches after the killings in Acapulco, as cartels recruit youths on social media.
Officials said the killings appeared to involve a "settling of scores" between cartels.
Carlos Arturo Landazuri Cortes, a "high-value target," was captured after months of intelligence work, Ecuador's police chief said.
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Authorties say José Alberto García Vilano is known by two nicknames -- "Cyclone 19" and "La Kena"
Michoacan prosecutors said the workshop was one of two discovered in the town of La Huacana, and had a computer-controlled lathe and milling machine, suggesting the operators had considerable metalworking knowledge.
The intruders usually act under the cover of darkness, sometimes with the complicity of the crew, according to Ecuador's coast guard.
The woman was arrested as she was preparing to marry her spouse, another extortion suspect who goes by the alias "Mouse."
The crime gangs also declared war on the government when Noboa announced a state of emergency following the prison escape on Sunday of one of Ecuador's most powerful narco bosses.
President Daniel Noboa decreed a national state of emergency for 60 days Monday, allowing the authorities to suspend rights and mobilize the military in places like prisons.
Six of the wounded made their way to a neighboring town for medical treatment, a priest said.
People were terrorized "to contract the internet services at excessive costs, under the claim that they would be killed if they did not," prosecutors said.
The killings suggest the cartel believed to have owned the drugs may have launched a generalized retribution.
The car and the bodies of the victims were found on the outskirts of the city of Celaya, which has seen a spate of drug cartel violence in recent years.
Jalisco cartel members have scammed at least 600 Americans out of about $40 million, officials said.
President Joe Biden thanked Mexico for the arrest of "El Nini" -- the hyper violent, alleged security chief for the "Chapitos" wing of the Sinaloa cartel.
Guadalajara has long been plagued by turf battles between factions of the Jalisco cartel, and hundreds of bodies have been dumped at clandestine sites there.
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A pair of jaguars discovered in a cage on a ranch exposed a cruel new fashion among Ecuador's drug kingpins.
Local media reported the two murdered pollsters were found with a sign threatening the government, signed by the Jalisco drug cartel.
Gunmen tried to storm the hospital in the Sinaloa state capital of Culiacan to carry out a hit, police said.
Six bodies were discovered in an area of Mexico where seven youths were kidnapped days earlier, authorities said.
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Chinese-based tour operators said North Korea will soon allow visitors to the mountainous northern city of Samjiyon.
The woman was found dead "because of being constricted and bitten by the snake," a police spokesman said.
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Susan Lorincz, a White woman accused of killing her neighbor Ajike "A.J." Owens, a Black woman, during a dispute in Ocala, Florida, has been found guilty of manslaughter.
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