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1 Mexico: Soldiers Took Them In The Night. Now The Army's Role InWed, 25 Apr 2018
Source:Los Angeles Times (CA) Author:Linthicum, Kate Area:Mexico Lines:177 Added:04/25/2018

The soldiers took them in the night.

First they came for Nitza Alvarado Espinoza and Jose Alvarado Herrera. The 31-year-old cousins were sitting in a van outside a family member's house when troops forced them into a military truck.

Minutes later, soldiers arrived at the house of another Alvarado cousin, 18-year-old Rocio Alvarado Reyes. She was carried away screaming at gunpoint in front of her young brothers and baby daughter.

It was Dec. 29, 2009 -- the last time the cousins were seen alive.

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2 Mexico: A Teen Youtube Star Insulted A Notorious Mexican Drug LordThu, 21 Dec 2017
Source:Morning Call (Allentown, PA)          Area:Mexico Lines:141 Added:12/21/2017

Juan Luis Lagunas Rosales was born in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, a mecca for cartels and the land of notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. Lagunas grew up never knowing his father. His mother left him with his grandmother as a child.

Lagunas left his hometown at the age of 15 without finishing high school, moving to the nearby municipality of Culiacan and washing cars to make a living, he said in an interview in July. It was in this adopted town that he took on the nickname that would later become known across cyberspace: "El Pirata de Culiacan," or "The Pirate of Culiacan."

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3 Mexico: Mexico's Bloody Drug War Is Killing More People Than EverSat, 22 Jul 2017
Source:Los Angeles Times (CA) Author:Linthicum, Kate Area:Mexico Lines:89 Added:07/25/2017

Drug war bloodshed in Mexico has spiked to record levels, with more homicides recorded in June than in any month in at least two decades.

Prosecutors opened 2,234 homicide investigations last month, according to government statistics released Friday. That's an increase of 40% over June of last year and 80% over June of 2014.

Rising demand for heroin in the United States and a bloody power struggle inside one of Mexico's most powerful drug cartels have put the country on track to record more killings in 2017 than in any year since the government began releasing crime data in 1997.

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4 Mexico: 26 People Killed In Northern Mexico Gunfight As Drug CartelWed, 05 Jul 2017
Source:Los Angeles Times (CA) Author:Alvarado, Mario Rivera Area:Mexico Lines:120 Added:07/07/2017

Mexican police guard a crime scene near the beach resort of Mazatlan, where 19 suspected drug cartel members died in clashes with police on July 1. On Wednesday, cartel violence claimed 26 more lives in neighboring Chihuahua state.

Mexican police guard a crime scene near the beach resort of Mazatlan, where 19 suspected drug cartel members died in clashes with police on July 1. On Wednesday, cartel violence claimed 26 more lives in neighboring Chihuahua state. (Mario Rivera Alvarado / Associated Press)

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