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Mexican drug cartel leader will be transferred from Texas to New York
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A federal judge on Friday said that a powerful Mexican drug cartel leader who was arrested over the summer in the U.S. can be transferred from Texas to New York to face charges there. The order from U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone in El Paso came after...
Mexican drug cartel leader agrees to be transferred from Texas to New York
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A powerful Mexican drug cartel leader who has been held in Texas since his arrest in the U.S. over the summer does not oppose being transferred to New York to face charges there, according to a court filing Thursday. Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, 76,...
Mexican drug lord Osiel Cárdenas Guillén has been released from a US prison and may be deported
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, one of Mexico’s most-feared drug lords, has been released from a U.S. prison after serving most of a 25-year prison sentence, authorities confirmed Friday. A U.S. Bureau of Prisons official said Cárdenas Guillén had been released...
Takeaways from the AP's report on Mexican mothers searching for their disappeared children
MEXICO CITY (AP) — According to official figures, at least 115,000 people have disappeared in Mexico since 1952, though the real number is believed to be higher. During the country’s “dirty war,” a conflict that lasted throughout the 1970s, disappearances were attributed to...
One day, their children didn't make it back home. Faith helps these Mexican mothers' search for them
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Each time the kidnapper hung up the phone, Veronica Rosas and her relatives did the only thing they could think of: kneel, grab each other’s hands and pray. “I told God: Please help me,” said Rosas, who has spent the past nine years searching for her son,...
Mexican military is attacked and roads blocked in Sinaloa state, authorities say
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities said Thursday there have been attacks on military personnel and roads blocked with vehicles in northern Sinaloa state. The state police department said the violence broke out in an area just north of the state capital, Culiacan. The state is...
Mexico suggests US made a deal with Mexican drug lord to get his brother transferred from prison
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in Mexico suggested Thursday that U.S. authorities made a deal with a Mexican drug lord who turned in himself and another capo, to get his brother transferred from a U.S. prison. Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office also accused U.S. authorities of...
Georgia lawmakers seek answers to deaths and violence plaguing the state's prisons
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia prisons remain understaffed and overwhelmed by violence and deaths, according to statistics presented to state lawmakers Wednesday. Legislators are seeking solutions to a wide range of problems plaguing prisons that have sparked a federal investigation. Among...
Fugitive ex-official implicates Mexican ex-president, others in tale spun of student disappearances
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A former head of investigations for Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office told officials investigating the 2014 disappearance of 43 students that the so-called “historic truth” presented to the public weeks later was cooked up by the highest ranking authorities in the...
Mexico's traditional and Indigenous community police come under fire from drug cartels
TANGAMANDAPIO, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s traditional and Indigenous community police forces are coming under increasingly deadly fire from drug cartels, authorities said Monday. Adrián López, the chief prosecutor in the western state of Michoacan, confirmed that gunmen linked to...
