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09/21/16 The Wall Street Journal
An accused drug kingpin, whose mansion yielded the world’s largest cash seizure, faces imminent extradition to Mexico after a refusal by U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts to grant an emergency stay.
Wednesday’s order could end a nearly decade long U.S. legal battle for Zhenli Ye Gon, who has been in custody since 2007.
09/06/16 Al Jazeera
Guadalajara, Mexico-Having spent the morning rumbling through downtown Guadalajara in their impenetrable armoured van, the three Seguritec employees entrusted with collecting cash from local businesses stopped to receive one last payment. Two of them got out to collect the money, but upon returning to their vehicle they realised their colleague had fled with about $800,000 in local currency.
08/18/16 Vice News
His spacious house and lawn in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Victoria are surrounded by tall walls, and stand in a gated community with more high fences and security guards. But even here, sitting on his couch surrounded by family photos and Catholic imagery, this owner of a big business still doesn’t feel safe.
“Nobody trusts anyone,” he said. “This house, 10 years ago, it didn’t have a fence. All the neighbors’ kids used to come play here.
08/18/16 CNN
Beheadings, mass executions, public hangings and torture — it’s all part of the massive drug war next door.
08/18/16 UPI
PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico, Aug. 18 (UPI) — Mexican authorities said they haven’t been able to identify one of six people kidnapped in Puerto Vallarta, and they can’t rule out the possibility that person is a second son of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán.
Authorities initially determined Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, 29, one of Guzmán’s children, was among several kidnapped early Monday from the upscale La Leche restaurant in the Pacific coast city.
08/09/16 InSight Crime
An American drug lord who operated in Mexico reportedly made a deal with US authorities to secure a shorter sentence, an anticipated outcome that is sure to add to the mounting evidence that extradited capos are providing on Mexico‘s underworld.
Edgar Valdez Villareal, a former leader of Mexico‘s Beltrán Leyva Organization (BLO), and four of his accomplices agreed to supply US authorities with information on his and rival drug cartels in exchange for a reduced prison sentence,reported El Universal.
07/25/16 InSight Crime
The founder of Mexico‘s notorious and now defunct Guadalajara Cartel, Rafael Caro Quintero, has been linked to two recent events that have raised alarm among authorities three years after a controversial court ruling freed the veteran drug lord and current fugitive from prison.
Caro Quintero, now in his mid-60s, has been dubbed the “narco of narcos” and the godfather of Mexico drug trafficking. After establishing himself as one of the country’s most powerful drug lords in the 1980s, he was imprisoned in 1989 for drug trafficking, murder, and perhaps most importantly, for the abduction, torture and killing of Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, an agent for the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
