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France 24
09-07-2025
- France 24
Mexican cartel gunmen sentenced to 141 years in prison
The men were arrested last September at a ranch authorities say was used as a forced recruitment center for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, one of the country's most powerful criminal gangs. Two captives were freed and a dead body found when the military raided the property in the western state of Jalisco following reports of gunfire, according to authorities. "The defendants were each sentenced to 141 years and three months in prison" for one count of homicide and two counts of kidnapping, according to a statement from the Jalisco prosecutor's office. The Guerreros Buscadores collective, a group dedicated to locating missing relatives, reported in March that hundreds of objects and items of clothing had been found at the Izaguirre ranch, allegedly belonging to people who had been forced to join the cartel. However, the government said that there was no evidence that the ranch was an "extermination camp" as the group alleged, but rather a cartel training center. The case has received significant press coverage in a country where criminal violence has left more than 120,000 people missing since the government launched a war on drug cartels in 2006.
Yahoo
27-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
34 bodies unearthed during construction work in Mexico
Mexican authorities discovered the bodies of 34 people in a mass grave in a western region wracked by cartel violence, the state prosecutor's office said Thursday. The remains were found during construction work in Zapopan in Jalisco state, home to one of the country's most powerful drug cartels, prosecutor Salvador Gonzalez told a news conference. Ground-penetrating radar and cadaver dogs were used to search for bodies following the initial discovery in February, he said. Criminal groups in the Latin American nation often bury their victims in unmarked graves, or incinerate them to leave no trace. Jalisco is one of the Mexican regions worst affected by a missing persons crisis that has seen more than 127,000 people vanish. The state is a stronghold of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, one of the drug trafficking groups classified by President Donald Trump's administration as a terrorist organization. The Jalisco cartel has been accused of using fake job advertisements to lure new members and of torturing and killing recruits who resist. In March, a group of people looking for missing relatives found charred bones, shoes and clothing at a suspected training ground for the cartel. The cartel is led by Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, who is better known as "El Mencho." Washington has offered a $15 million reward for information leading to his capture. Criminal violence has claimed around 480,000 lives across Mexico since 2006. Hundreds of graves have been discovered across the country. One of the largest mass graves in Mexico was reported in 2017 when more than 250 skulls were found in what appears to be a drug cartel mass burial ground on the outskirts of the city of Veracruz. More recently, in January, at least 56 bodies were discovered in unmarked mass graves in northern Mexico, not far from the U.S. border. The month before that, Mexican authorities discovered 12 bodies buried in clandestine graves in Mexico's northern Chihuahua state. Another 12 bodies were also found in several graves about two hours from Ciudad Juarez, which lies across the border from El Paso, Texas. Hegseth slams Iran strikes initial assessment that contradicts Trump's take Young Cuban girl asks Trump to lift travel ban stopping her from joining mom in U.S. Watch: Fiery meteorite seen above Georgia and South Carolina
Free Malaysia Today
09-06-2025
- Free Malaysia Today
Mexican police kill 4 cartel suspects near Guatemala border
Criminal violence, mostly linked to drugs, has claimed around 480,000 lives in Mexico since 2006. (EPA Images pic) TUXTLA GUTIERREZ : Police in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and federal forces killed four suspected criminals today during a chase in an area bordering Guatemala, the local government said. A statement from the local security secretariat said the events occurred in the municipality of Frontera Comalapa after security forces were attacked while on a routine patrol. 'Authorities repelled the fire… and managed to kill four suspected members of organised crime,' the statement said. Local media reported that the security forces may have entered Guatemalan territory during the pursuit. Guatemalan vice-president Karin Herrera wrote on social media platform X that 'the border is under control' and that the army and police maintain 'an active presence in the area to guarantee the protection and security of the population'. The Chiapas security secretariat insisted that the operation took place within Mexico. A source from the agency, who asked not to be identified, told AFP the dead were members of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel. In recent months, Chiapas has been shaken by a bloody turf war between the Jalisco New Generation and Sinaloa cartels – the country's two most powerful criminal organisations. Last week, five Chiapas state police officers patrolling the area were killed after they were ambushed by an armed group in Frontera Comalapa, according to the local security secretariat. Criminal violence, most of it linked to drug trafficking, has claimed around 480,000 lives in Mexico since 2006 and left more than 120,000 people missing.
Arab News
27-05-2025
- General
- Arab News
17 bodies found in abandoned house in Mexico
MEXICO: Missing persons investigators found 17 bodies in an abandoned house in a central Mexican region plagued by criminal violence, the state prosecutor's office said. Ground-penetrating radar and cadaver dogs were used to locate the bodies last week in Irapuato in Guanajuato state, according to a statement released late Monday. Knives, machetes, pickaxes, and shovels were also found. Five of the victims — four men and one woman --- have been identified as missing persons, according to prosecutors. 'Their families are being informed,' a Guanajuato state official, Jorge Jimenez, told reporters. Guanajuato is a thriving industrial hub and home to several popular tourist destinations, but it is also Mexico's deadliest state due to gang turf wars, according to official homicide statistics. Criminal violence, most of it linked to drug trafficking, has claimed around 480,000 lives in Mexico since 2006 and left more than 120,000 people missing. Civil society groups formed by relatives who denounce government inaction risk their own lives searching for remains in unmarked graves, often in areas where cartel gunmen are active. Much of the violence in Guanajuato is linked to conflict between the Santa Rosa de Lima gang and the Jalisco New Generation cartel, one of the most powerful in the Latin American nation. Guanajuato recorded more than 3,000 murders last year, the most of any Mexican state, according to official figures. That was equivalent to just over 10 percent of the nationwide total.
