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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] 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] 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] 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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