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In the southern United States before the Civil War, slave traders such as Franklin and Armfield arbitraged slave prices by purchasing slaves at low prices in Mid-Atlantic states such as Virginia, and then reselling them at a higher price in deep-south, especially in New Orleans, Louisiana, and in Natchez, Mississippi, at the Forks of the Road Market.
Jose calderon and Alma Guadalupe Ojeda Angulo. [2] She began her criminal career with the Sinaloa Cartel in 2005. Calderón was the leader of the Damaso Cartel, a sub-division of the Sinaloa Cartel, until she was forcibly removed of her rank by cartel leader "El Grande", who killed her first boyfriend, Erick Davalos Von Borstel.
In this excerpt from her book 'Narcas,' veteran journalist Deborah Bonello uncovers some of the powerful women inside the macho world of Latin America's brutal drug gangs.
The Farm: Angola, USA is a 1998 award-winning documentary set in the notorious and largest American maximum-security prison, Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola. Loosely based on articles published in Life Sentences , drawn from the prison magazine, The Angolite , the film was directed and produced by Jonathan Stack and Liz Garbus .
Mexican authorities said they recovered a total of 31 bodies from pits in a southeastern state plagued by cartel violence since they began excavating the improvised graves at the weekend.
Sandra Ávila Beltrán (born 16 October 1960) is a Mexican drug lord, dubbed "La Reina del Pacífico" (The Queen of the Pacific) by the media. [1] [2] [3] She was arrested on September 28, 2007, and was charged with organized crime and conspiracy to drug trafficking. [1]
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]
The USGS topographic map of Louisiana State Penitentiary in 1994. The Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South", "The Angola Plantation" and "The Farm" [8]) is a maximum-security prison farm in Louisiana operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections.