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At the helicopter collision scene, several Army soldiers made a cross with wires and tied it to a tree close to where their comrades died. The cross had the logo of the special forces unit. [50] The smoke from the helicopter's crash lasted a few hours, and several of the helicopter's pieces scattered as far as 250 metres (820 ft) from each other.
He was the right-hand man to Pablo Acosta Villarreal who was killed in April 1987, during a cross-border raid by Mexican Federal Police helicopters in the Rio Grande village of Santa Elena, Chihuahua. [3] Having taken over from Acosta, Rafael Aguilar Guajardo made Amado Carrillo Fuentes his second-in-command.
Her pictures made it to Facebook and Twitter. [3] The picture identified her as a Gulf Cartel hitwoman based out of Río Bravo, Tamaulipas; [10] she was smiling in front of the camera and posing with a firearm and bullet proof vest. [b] [12] She was resting her sunglasses on her head and was wearing a golden necklace. [13]
Zambada, 76, the cartel’s co-founder, was long believed to have police, soldiers and political leaders in his pocket. But the new statement includes unprecedented admissions of those ties.
Lazcano was the most powerful cartel leader to be killed since the start of Mexico's drug war in 2006. [ 56 ] Lazcano's death differs from those of other cartel leaders in Mexico – including the Gulf Cartel kingpin Antonio Cárdenas Guillén , La Familia Michoacana leader Nazario Moreno González and the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel leader Arturo ...
The clashes follow the arrests on U.S. soil of Sinaloa Cartel co-founder Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, as well as Joaquin Guzman Lopez, a son of El Chapo. Over 30 killed in Mexico after cartel leaders ...
Sinaloa has seen a surge in violence since the July arrest of the cartel's co-founder Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada in the U.S. 19 suspected cartel members killed in shootout with troops Skip to main ...
José Alberto García Vilano, also known as La Kena and Ciclon 19, is a Mexican drug lord and leader of the Los Ciclones cell within the Gulf Cartel, an international crime syndicate. [1] García Vilano's cell was accused of kidnapping four U.S. citizens in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, in March 2023, with two of the victims being killed. [2] [3]