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[Link] The Wrong People Just Got Their Hands on an Elite Drone Unit
Read: 22/8/2023 www.thedailybeast.com
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico—One of Mexico’s most violent cartels has just created its own elite unit of drone operators, a highly trained group of sicarios dedicated to tweaking commercial drones and turning them into flying bombs to use against rival cartels and Mexican authorities, according to U.
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[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] A $200 Million Load of Fentanyl Was Just Seized in El Chapo’s Hometown
Read: 11/7/2022 www.vice.com
Authorities also found 555 kg of methamphetamine, 31 kg of cocaine, 7 kg of heroin, and over 71,000 kg of chemical precursors. Ten people were arrested in the bust, according to a Mexican army press release.
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[Link] Paleontology ‘a hotbed of unethical practices rooted in colonialism’, say scientists
Read: 3/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
The public image of palaeontologists as dusty, but rather affable academics, could be due an update.
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[Link] QAnon Surfer Who Killed His Kids Believed He Was Neo From ‘The Matrix’
Read: 1/3/2022 www.vice.com
At 3.12 a.m., Matthew Coleman was lying in bed next to his children, 2-year-old Kaleo and 10-month-old Roxy, in a hotel room in the Mexican resort town of Rosarito, when he decided to text his wife Abby. “Hi babe, miss you too. Things have been rough but starting to get some clarity as well.
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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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[Link] Partying passengers stuck in Mexico after airlines decline to fly them home
Read: 31/1/2022 www.cnn.com
Some members of a rowdy group shown dancing, drinking and vaping maskless aboard a flight to Cancun find themselves stranded in Mexico after their return flight to Canada was scrubbed and other airlines have declined to fly them home.
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[Link] A Drug Cartel War Is Making Lime Prices Skyrocket in Mexico
Read: 31/1/2022 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—Limes are part of Mexico’s identity. Essential companions to tequila, tacos and guacamole, they’re critical ingredients in the country’s gastronomy. They are also a pawn in an escalating war among rival drug cartels that is driving lime prices to record levels.
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[Link] Prisoners Suspected of Smuggling Drugs Inside a Baby That Ended Up Dead
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—A dead infant found in a trash can inside a notorious Mexican prison has fueled allegations that the child’s body may have been used to smuggle drugs into the facility.
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[Link] Video Shows Narco Drones Dropping Bombs As People Flee
Read: 13/1/2022 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—Terrifying video footage from a narco drone dropping bombs as people scatter below has gone viral in Mexico.
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[Link] Why So Much Fentanyl Is Being Seized at the Border
Read: 1/12/2021 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—Fentanyl seizures at the United States-Mexico border more than doubled in 2021 to surpass heroin for the first time ever. But experts say the COVID-19 border shutdown may explain the record numbers because it gave agents more time to inspect fewer vehicles. U.S.
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[Link] Drug Kingpin El Mencho's Wife Was Just Arrested in Mexico
Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—Mexican authorities announced the arrest Tuesday of Rosalinda González Valencia, charged with laundering money for the hyper-violent Jalisco New Generation Cartel, which is led by her husband, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias El Mencho.
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[Link] Ted Cruz Doesn’t Think Texas Should Secede—Yet
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is “not ready to give up on America yet,” but he might support a Texas secession eventually if the party elected to run the federal government were to “fundamentally destroy the country” by enacting progressive proposals.
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[Link] The US Just Put a $5 Million Bounty on El Chapo’s Brother
Read: 8/11/2021 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—The U.S. government is beefing up its search for high ranking members of the Sinaloa cartel, including the brother of incarcerated kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera. The move comes as fentanyl overdoses in the U.S. continue to surge, and seizures in Mexico spike.
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[Link] Police Say TV Star Killed Himself Driving. His Family Say Cops Are to Blame.
Read: 7/11/2021 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—Since former child star, Octavio Ocaña, died from a bullet wound following a car chase with police, many Mexicans have been consumed with the question of who fired the fatal shot. Police said the 22-year-old TV actor accidentally shot himself in the head with his own gun last week.
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[Link] How the 'Craigslist of Guns' Helps Arm Cartels in Mexico
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Investigators traced guns found in the border city of Reynosa back to Americans who used the website Armslist.
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[Link] QAnon Surfer Accused of Killing His Own Kids May Mount Mental Health Defense
Read: 1/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Lawyers for the man accused of killing his own children with a spear gun because he was radicalized by QAnon conspiracy theories are seeking to delay his trial by six months to properly assess his mental health.
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[Link] Two Tourists Killed as Cartels Creep Into Mexico's Tulum Resort Area
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
But the October 20 killings revealed the dark underbelly of Mexico’s Riviera Maya, one that tourism officials along the vacation corridor have struggled to hide.
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[Link] Las Patronas: The Rise of Female Drug Bosses in Latin America
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
VICE World News brings you exclusive reporting from Latin America’s criminal underworld on the boss women you’ve never heard of. MEXICO CITY, Mexico — She told me her name was Brenda. When I met her, she had been in the Pavón prison on the outskirts of Guatemala City for 20 years.
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[Link] Upstart Corn Activists in Mexico Just Beat GMO Goliath Bayer-Monsanto
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Mexico's Supreme Court just rejected appeals by companies including Bayer-Monsanto, Synganta, and Corteva, and voted to ratify an injunction that restricts the cultivation of genetically modified corn.
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[Link] Mexican Gangster Rapper ‘El Millonario’ Just Got Arrested on Murder Charges
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Authorities allege that César Suárez, aka Millonario, was involved in the death of a 29-year-old male on the outskirts of the northern Mexican city of Monterrey in July.
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[Link] A Drug Cartel Sent a Severed Head to Tijuana’s New Police Chief on His First Day
Read: 12/10/2021 www.vice.com
The next night, two more messages were reportedly found at different points in the city, repeating the same threat of bloodshed, but this time accompanied by what is believed to be animal meat.
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[Link] Mexico Embraces Afghan Refugees As Its Soldiers Beat Asylum Seekers Traveling by Caravan
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY — In southern Mexico, a Central American migrant crumpled to the ground as a senior official with the national immigration agency stomped on the man’s face wearing a military-style boot.
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[Link] First China, Now India: How Drug Cartels Get Chemicals for Meth and Fentanyl
Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com
Restrictions in China have pushed drug traffickers to source the chemical “precursors” they need in India. Shopping for the chemical ingredients used to make fentanyl, methamphetamine, and other illicit synthetic drugs is still easy—if you know where to look.
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[Link] Monsoon Rains Just Washed Away Trump's 'Impenetrable' Border Wall
Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com
The damage caused by the recent rains is the latest in a series of incidents that have exposed flaws in the construction of the wall, which cost U.S. taxpayers–not Mexico, as Trump had repeatedly promised–an estimated $15 billion.
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[Link] A Mexican Cartel Was Driven Out of Town By Indigenous Vigilantes Called ‘El Machete’
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
PANTELHO, Mexico - As smoke curled from neighboring buildings that had been ransacked and torched the day before, a couple of thousand Indigenous people armed with makeshift weapons gathered around city hall to hear their leaders speak.
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[Link] Indigenous Peoples of Oaxaca in Resistance Against Contemporary Colonialism
Read: 15/8/2021 itsgoingdown.org
Communique from the Oaxacan Assembly in Defense of Land and Territory on the continued Indigenous resistance against contemporary colonialism To the Indigenous Peoples of Mexico and the World As Indigenous peoples, movements, organizations, and unions of this geography called Oaxaca, those who inhab
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[Link] Mexico Built a Fake Aztec Temple Instead of Fixing the Real Sacred One
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—A Mexican company spent a bunch of money to build a massive replica of the country's legendary Aztec pyramid, just steps from the real pyramid that the government has closed due to lack of funds.
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[Link] While Delta spreads, Republicans deflect and resort to Trump demagoguery
Read: 9/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
As America reaches the milestone of 70% of adults with at least one dose of a vaccine, the highly contagious Delta variant is surging. Public health officials are trying to keep the focus on the urgent need for more vaccinations.
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[Link] US-Trained Cops in Mexico Killed Migrants, Set Them on Fire, Say Prosecutors
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
New evidence obtained by VICE World News paints a chilling picture of the killing of 19 migrants by pnear the U.S border in January. MEXICO CITY — Two trucks carrying migrants sped through dusty roads a few miles south of the U.S. border as four armored police cars gave chase.
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[Link] How Smugglers Flood Mexico With Cheap U.S. Guns
Read: 6/8/2021 www.vice.com
U.S. gun laws are easily exploited by traffickers and cartels in Mexico, who have caused devastation in their wake. The following is an adapted excerpt from Ioan Grillo’s latest book, Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels.
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[Link] Mexico Just Sued the US Gun Industry for Causing 17,000 Killings a Year
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
The lawsuit names among others Smith & Wesson, Beretta, Century Arms, Colt, Glock and Ruger. Their guns are the ones most often recovered in Mexico, according to the complaint from the Mexican government. It also lists Barrett, “whose .
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[Link] The Gulf of Mexico’s 'Dead Zone' Is Now the Size of Connecticut
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
A scientist-led research cruise has found that the Gulf of Mexico’s “dead zone” is now measuring at 6,334 square miles, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Tuesday, which is roughly the size of Connecticut.
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