Cartel del Noreste leader sentenced to 16 years
A leader of the Cartel del Noreste, who smuggled drugs into the South Texas border town of Laredo, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
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Notorious cartel leader's son-in-law pleads guilty in U.S. to scheme that used violence to fix prices at border
Carlos Favian Martinez, son-in-law to former Gulf Cartel drug lord, Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, entered a guilty plea before a federal court in Houston to charges including conspiracy to fix prices ...
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Mexico says U.S. military planes may have spied on drug cartels near border: "We don't know what they did"
U.S. military aircraft may have spied on drug cartels during recent flights near Mexican territory, the government said Tuesday. Mexico was aware of two such U.S. military flights in late January ...
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State Dept. Draws Up List of Cartels to Be Labeled Terrorist Groups
Besides those two groups, the State Department plans to designate six Mexican cartels: the Sinaloa cartel, Jalisco New Generation cartel, the Northeast cartel, the Michoacán family, the United ...
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US military ramping up surveillance of Mexican cartels, general says
WASHINGTON - The U.S. military is increasing its airborne surveillance of Mexican drug cartels to collect intelligence to determine how to best counter their activities, the top U.S. general ...
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US to label drug cartels as ‘terrorist’ groups — report
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — More than half a dozen drug cartels with roots in Latin America will be classified as “terrorist” organisations by the United States (US) State Department ...
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Feds likely eyeing 'cover-ups' to bust Mexican cartels along border: former DEA agent
Mexican drug cartels have outfitted dozens of tunnels with rail and cart systems to whisk drugs beneath the U.S. border, posing a major challenge for the Trump administration as it works to curb ...
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The Gauntlet’s Been Thrown by the Drug Cartels
According to reports out of Mexico, the Mexican drug cartel leaders have instructed their minions to hunt down and kill U.S. Border Patrol Agents, and presumably anyone else in law enforcement or ...
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Trump unleashes more ultra-hi-tech spy planes to target drug cartels along border
Some of the US’s most sophisticated spy planes that typically monitor the Chinese and Russians are now flooding the air targeting Mexican drug cartels as part of President Trump’s crackdown ...
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Why are drug cartels stepping up their threats against corridos musicians?
Interpretations vary, but the song’s title itself could be a nod to “La Chapiza,” or a faction of the Sinaloa cartel helmed by El Chapo’s children, bolstered further by a play on words ...
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Mexican drug cartels using bogus storefronts to hide underground drug tunnel exits on US side of border: feds
Mexican drug cartels are using ever-more sophisticated methods of covering their tracks, including disguising their elaborate drug tunnels with “cover-ups” — or bogus storefronts on the US ...
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US spy planes hunt for intel on Mexican drug cartels as surveillance flights surge near border
The US military has significantly increased its surveillance of Mexican drug cartels over the past two weeks, with sophisticated spy planes flying at least 18 missions over the southwestern US and ...