El Mayo, infamous Mexican drug lord
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On a Sunday in February, Mexico's second-largest city ground to a standstill. Gunmen used burning cars as flaming barricades, shutting down traffic in and out of Guadalajara. Terrified zoo visitors sheltered overnight with the monkeys and kangaroos.
For a president who made going after drug cartels one of his political priorities, it is a brazen contradiction for Donald Trump to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted and sentenced for drug trafficking in 2024.
Last year, police in Rio de Janeiro raided a luxurious property owned by a local drug lord. The officers described it as a resort because it had an artificial lake and a full gym. On the day the property was raided, dozens of the local favela children were ...
MIAMI (AP) — One of Colombia's legendary drug lords and a key operator of the Medellin cocaine cartel has been released from a federal prison in the U.S. and is expected to be deported back home. Records from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons show that Fabio ...
Drug lords like Sean McGovern, a top lieutenant of the Kinahan cartel, and Faissal Taghi — son of the infamous head of the Dutch-Moroccan Mocro Maffia — used to hang out and party in Dubai’s glitzy hotels and restaurants without a care in the world.
NEW YORK — After years as one of U.S. authorities’ most wanted men, Mexican drug cartel boss Rafael Caro Quintero was brought into a New York courtroom Friday to answer charges that include orchestrating the 1985 killing of a U.S. federal agent.
