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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tells Norah O'Donnell, anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News," that he supports deploying the U.S. military to the U.S.-Mexico border with authorization to use deadly force against Mexican cartel members.
The Mormon group was headed to a wedding, and authorities said some of the victims were burned alive.
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman wrote a letter to the judge who oversaw his case, months after he sent the president of Mexico an "SOS," alleging "psychological torment" at the supermax Colorado prison where he is serving a life sentence.
"All of these explosive devices are homemade, based on tutorials that can be found on the internet," Mexico's defense secretary said.
The video revived memories of the most horrifying instances of drug cartel brutality, in which kidnap victims were forced to kill each other.
Rafael Guadalupe Felix Nuñez began his career as a hitman and later joined a gang who all adopted "Anthrax" as their last names.
Dairo Antonio Úsuga ordered killings of perceived enemies - one of whom was tortured, buried alive and beheaded - and terrorized the public at large, prosecutors say.
Some of the corpses were buried so recently that bits of skin with tattoos remained, searchers said.
Monica De Leon Barba was kidnapped last November while walking her dog in Tepatitlán, Jalisco, Mexico.
It appeared to be the first time that a Mexican cartel killed law enforcement personnel with IEDs.
The western state is the base of operations of the Jalisco New Generation cartel, one of Mexico's most powerful drug trafficking groups.
Prosecutors said three of the dead appeared to be minors, but identifications were still pending.
The Familia Michoacana cartel has dominated rural areas in the state for years, but may now be trying to take over the state capital.
Authorities discovered Gabriel Trujillo's body in the state of Sonora, days after his fiancée reported him missing.
The video shows one of the gunmen holding a pistol to the head of one woman as she is forced to lie flat on the floor.
"There seem to have been executions and this cannot be allowed," President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said.
Emma Coronel Aispuro is scheduled to be released in mid-September, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
The Jalisco cartel, known by its initials as the CJNG, is famous for its ruthless treatment of supposed traitors, informants or turncoats.
Joaquin Guzman Lopez, 36, is the fourth member of Los Chapitos, the nickname given to the sons of "El Chapo" who allegedly run a powerful faction of his drug empire.
Gunmen carjacked vehicles and left them parked across roadways around the city. The military deployed about 700 troops and two helicopters to quell the violence.
Local media reported that a woman identified in 2021 as his wife had been arrested in Texas after police found over $800,000 hidden in shoeboxes and backpacks in her home.
Cartel members apparently decided to branch out into scamming millions of dollars from people looking to sell their timeshares in Mexico.
The bodies were found as police looked in wooded lots and even sinkhole ponds known as cenotes.
Local media reported the attackers were members of the Jalisco New Generation cartel, one of the most powerful and violent gangs in Mexico.
The seizure came a week after U.S. prosecutors revealed grisly details about how some drug lords use tigers.
