Topic: Culiacan
Drug traffickers showed up at Martha Lopez's home in Sinaloa state, at the heart of Mexico's drug industry, and said they knew she planned to visit her sick son in San Quintin, near the US border.A man held a ...
Drug traffickers showed up at Martha Lopez's home in Sinaloa state, at the heart of Mexico's drug industry, and said they knew she planned to visit her sick son in San Quintin, near the US border.A man held a ...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican authorities found the burned bodies of 16 people in the home state of the country's most powerful drug lord, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, the attorney general's office of Sinaloa said on Wednesday.The bodies were discovered in ...
Mexican soldiers hit the jackpot when they carried out a surprise search of a car in the unruly border town of Tijuana and found $15 million plus jewels and drugs stashed inside.The haul, uncovered on Friday, most likely belonged to one ...
Mexican schools appear increasingly vulnerable to the country's drug violence, with five human heads dumped outside one school and threats of a grenade attack on another in the past week alone.From northern border areas to Acapulco, on the Pacific coast ...
Mexico's popular songs glorifying its drug traffickers, known as narcocorridos, have attracted a growing following in recent years, from Mexico City to Los Angeles.But authorities in northwestern Sinaloa for the first time banned the ballads in May, surprising many in ...
On May 27 , 2008 , 7 police officers were killed and 4 injured during a raid on a house in Culiacan , Northern Mexico . In recent weeks, President Felipe Calderon has sent more than 2,000 troops into the region in an attempt to ...
Prisoners slit throats of 6 fellow inmates at jail in drug-plagued western Mexico stateAuthorities say six inmates had their throats cut and died in a prison in a Mexican state plagued by drug violence.Sinaloa state Assistant Public Security Secretary Fortino Borquez ...
CULIACAN, Mexico (Reuters) - One of Mexico's top drug lords, gunned down this week by security forces, was buried on Sunday in a low-key ceremony at a family crypt in the northwestern city of Culiacan, deep inside Mexican drug trafficking territory.Mourners ...
City in northern Mexico closes schools after suspected rise in swine flu casesOfficials have closed 1,400 schools in the city of Culiacan in northern Mexico after a suspected rise in swine flu cases.The education secretary of Sinaloa state, where Culiacan ...
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