Spain claims its "biggest-ever seizure" of crystal meth
Spanish police said they dismantled a major methamphetamine distribution network of the Mexican Sinaloa cartel after seizing 1.8 tons of the drug.
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Spanish police said they dismantled a major methamphetamine distribution network of the Mexican Sinaloa cartel after seizing 1.8 tons of the drug.
The bloodshed in Chiapas marks at least the fourth mass killing in Mexico in about a week.
Nine men were found dead in the city of Morelos in Zacatecas — a day after nine bodies were found on an avenue in the city of Fresnillo.
Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and their American friend have not been seen since April 27.
It marks the first time in recent memory that anyone claimed to have found such a body disposal site in the capital.
"El Chapo" asked for intervention from the judge in the letter for the "unprecedented discrimination against me."
Acapulco is still struggling to recover after being hit by Category 5 Hurricane Otis in October.
Discoveries of mutilated bodies with menacing messages have increased in Mexico in recent years as cartels and gangs seek to intimidate their rivals.
Europol has identified 821 particularly threatening criminal networks with more than 25,000 members in the bloc.
In video of the scene posted on social media, several shots can be heard and people are seen running and falling down.
Guillermo Torres and his 14-year-old son were attacked at a restaurant in Morelia, officials said. His son survived.
The mob formed after an 8-year-old girl disappeared and her body was found on a road on the outskirts of the city.
About two dozen bags containing human remains were found in a clandestine cemetery, the Guerreros Buscadores collective said.
Mexican drug cartels frequently use bulletproof vehicles, as well as military-grade weapons.
Cristal García Hurtado, a regional police commander, was decapitated, local media reported.
The woman was released without paying the ransom kidnappers sought, diplomats said on social media.
Tomás Morales was hoping to become mayor of the violence-wracked city of Chilapa, Guerrero.
Officials did not say Tuesday how the man and woman were found or whether they had been freed from captivity.
Graphic photos of the scene posted on social media suggest the blast was so powerful that it blew the victims' limbs off.
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Drug cartels in Mexico frequently make videos of dead or captured gang members to intimidate or threaten rivals.
Police responding to reports of a criminal gang clash found 5 bodies in a remote Mexican town not far from the location of a 2020 massacre.
The clashes happened in the same area where four U.S. citizens, two of whom later died, were kidnapped at gunpoint last year.
Mexican police hit the beaches after the killings in Acapulco, as cartels recruit youths on social media.
Officials said the killings appeared to involve a "settling of scores" between cartels.