Top Mexico cartel leader agrees to be transferred to New York
Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, co-founder of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, was arrested along with Joaquín Guzmán López after landing at an airport near El Paso in July.
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Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, co-founder of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, was arrested along with Joaquín Guzmán López after landing at an airport near El Paso in July.
Former Gulf Cartel leader Osiel Cardenas Guillen once led Los Zetas, one of the country's most bloodthirsty gangs until its collapse.
There have been fears that wider violence might break out following recent detentions of top Sinaloa cartel leaders in the U.S.
Seven guards were killed just days after seven members of a community police force were kidnapped, apparently by cartel gunmen.
The strange saga of how two Mexican drug lords were detained after landing in a plane in the U.S. just got stranger.
The governor acknowledged that 10 killings were related to the dispute between warring factions of the Sinaloa cartel.
One reporter told Mexico's president that his supporters had harassed her and complained that his polarization of society has put journalists at risk.
Mexican prosecutors now say they are considering bringing treason charges against those who handed Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada over.
Alejandro Martínez's wounded bodyguards drove him to a hospital, where he died, authorities said.
A former Cancun police officer was found at the scene going through the pockets of one of the bodies, police said.
Officials released video showing the detained suspect, who is accused of leading the largest "narco sailboat" organization in the world.
"We are hostages to extortion demands, we are hostages of criminal groups," Julio Almanza said in one of his last interviews.
One of El Chapo's sons duped Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada into boarding a plane on Thursday, telling him they were going to look at property in Mexico, a person familiar with the investigation confirmed to CBS News.
The FBI arrested the leader of Mexico's notorious Sinaloa cartel and a son of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman near El Paso on Thursday. CBS News national correspondent Manuel Bojorquez is in Irving, Texas, with more details.
Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of former Sinaloa leader Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, were arrested in El Paso, Texas, officials said. CBS News' Manuel Bojorquez breaks down what's known about the operation that led to the arrests of two of the cartel's leaders.
The murders marked the latest in a series of attacks targeting police, activists and politicians across Mexico.
The drug ring would appeal to a witchdoctor "to receive his blessing and for the success of its cocaine transportation," police said.
More women, children and entire families have fallen victim to indiscriminate violence in areas where drug cartels are fighting bloody turf battles.
The Jalisco New Generation drug cartel has reportedly killed call center workers who try to quit.
Mexico's president said the attacks have become brutal and indiscriminate, and blamed lenient or corrupt judges.
Minerva Pérez was killed in what the state prosecutor described as a direct assassination attack that riddled the victim with several gunshot wounds.
The victims were found dead on a road leading to Acapulco, a once-glamorous resort city now engulfed in violence.
An investigation into aggravated murder was opened after Acacio Flores was killed in Guerrero state, officials said.
Last weekend, two USDA employees were assaulted and temporarily held by assailants in the Mexican state of Michoacan.
Uriel Tabares Martinez is known as "El Medico" for the surgical manner in which he tortures and kills enemies of the cartel, officials said.
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The incident occurred one week after shots were fired during the White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, D.C., and Mr. Trump was rushed off the dais.
There was no immediate reason given for the 81-year-old's hospitalization.
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The English city of Newcastle was hometown of the rock musician Sting, who as a young man witnessed the city's shipbuilding business dry up. He's paid homage to his town's heritage by writing and starring in a musical, "The Last Ship."
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For centuries the English city of Newcastle was a hard-scrabble industrial powerhouse that built ships. It was also the hometown of the rock musician Sting, who as a young man witnessed the city's shipbuilding business dry up. He's paid homage to his town's heritage by writing and starring in a musical, "The Last Ship," which he's now taking on an international tour. He talks with Mark Phillips about his long career, and why he can't stop working.
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