[Link] 14-Year-Old Known as ‘El Chapito’ Arrested for Allegedly Killing 8 People at a Birthday Party

Read: 19/3/2023 www.vice.com

MEXICO CITY—A 14-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly being one of the gunmen in an attack on a birthday party in Mexico that killed eight people in January. The massacre took place in Chimalhuacan, a suburb just outside of Mexico City, on January 22.

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[Link] Congress Suddenly Wants to Know If US Taxpayers Were Helping El Chapo

Read: 4/3/2023 www.vice.com

The DEA and FBI face questions about whether they tolerated high-level Mexican corruption as US tax dollars flowed to fight the drug war.

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[Link] The Cocaine Queen of Honduras Was Just Extradited to the US

Read: 28/7/2022 www.vice.com

Honduras just put one of its most notorious suspected drug bosses on a plane to the United States. Herlinda Bobadilla, alias “La Chinda,” is the 62-year-old alleged matriarch of the Montes drug cartel.

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[Link] ‘It’s total terror’: Colombian cartel retaliates over kingpin’s arrest

Read: 9/5/2022 www.theguardian.com

Jorge, a community activist from Colombia’s conflict-ridden Chocó province, was already traveling to the city of Medellín when he heard news that made him turn back towards home.

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[Link] Mexico Recaptures Elusive Gulf Cartel Boss For Third Time

Read: 1/3/2022 www.vice.com

MEXICO CITY — A top boss of the infamous Gulf Cartel was arrested this weekend in Mexico City for the third time. His detention is one of the highest-profile captures for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s administration. Whether Cárdenas will remain in prison is yet to be seen. 

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