Wife of Mexican drug lord "El Chapo" released from prison
Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin Guzman, was released from prison on Wednesday. She pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges in 2021.
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Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin Guzman, was released from prison on Wednesday. She pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges in 2021.
Monica De Leon Barba was kidnapped last November while walking her dog in Tepatitlán, Jalisco, Mexico.
Luis Martín Sánchez Iñiguez was one of three current or former journalists to have disappeared in the western Mexican state of Nayarit in recent days.
Violence in the Mexican border region with Guatemala has escalated in recent months amid a territorial dispute between two cartels.
Caballero did not say who the threats had come from, but several drug cartels are waging turf battles in the Mexican border city.
The sons of Guzmán said "we have never produced, manufactured or commercialized fentanyl nor any of its derivatives," the letter said.
Officials in the Cortazar municipality in Guanajuato state said that gunmen invaded the resort and opened fire.
The drug lord's four sons, who are known as the Chapitos, have earned a reputation as the more violent and aggressive faction of the cartel.
The DEA has been calling on the Chinese government to crack down on supply chain networks producing precursor chemicals.
"Cholo Ivan" worked as the "plaza boss" in Guamúchil, where he supervised at least 200 armed men and was in charge of drug-trafficking, prosecutors said.
A photograph of five men face down on the pavement and bound accompanied the apology letter.
On Tuesday, Mexican and U.S. officials said two of the four U.S. citizens who went missing have been found dead and two are alive.
The agency says their vehicle was fired on after it entered Matamoros, a city home to warring Gulf drug cartel factions.
The state prosecutor said there was enough evidence to identify about half of the people found in the two graves.
A young mother was clutching her 10-month-old son and running for safety when both were gunned down in a horrific attack that left six dead in a small central California community, the sheriff said.
There are new battles at the U.S.-Mexico border over the most dangerous narcotic law enforcement has ever seen.
