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Protesters stormed a government building after Mayor Carlos Manzo of Uruapan was shot and killed while at a Day of the Dead celebration. The outspoken mayor often denounced cartels and criticized the government’s approach to dealing with them.
Before being imprisoned in the late 1980s, he made a fortune as a Honduran power broker connecting Colombian and Mexican cartels.
DEEP DIVE — Eight weeks ago, Secretary of State Marco Rubio went to Mexico City, the epicenter of the global illegal drug trade, and declared, “The president of the United States is going to wage war on narco-terrorist organizations.”Since then, the a…
The U.N.’s human rights chief condemned deadly military attacks on vessels near South and Central America and called for an independent investigation.
Even if critics who call President Trump’s boat attacks “murder” are right as a matter of law, it would not be easy to get the matter into a court.
President Trump said he is cutting U.S. aid. Gustavo Petro, a leftist guerrilla turned president, has called Mr. Trump’s boat strikes murder.
The Trump administration has acknowledged 10 strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats from South America, which have killed 43 people.
They arrive where the killings end, retrieving bodies, comforting families and bearing the emotional toll of a deadly struggle that shows no sign of stopping.
OPINION / FINE PRINT — “We have asked the Mexican government to also step up their involvement in stopping these cartels and stopping the huge amount of drugs that are coming across. If the Mexican navy saw a group of American fishermen that they thou…
Zhi Dong Zhang, who escaped house arrest in Mexico this summer, is accused of supplying cartels with fentanyl from China, smuggling and money laundering millions under the alias “Brother Wang.”