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On 8 June, the Army issued a posthumous promotion to eight of its members who were killed in the helicopter attack. [128] Among them were two Army infantry captains, an Air Force pilot, an Army infantry lieutenant, an Air Force sub-lieutenant, two-second-degree Army infantry sergeants, and another Air Force member.
On April 5, 2010, the attacks received worldwide coverage and controversy following the release of 39 minutes of classified gunsight footage by WikiLeaks. [6] The video, which WikiLeaks titled Collateral Murder, [7] [8] showed the crew firing on a group of people and killing several of them, including two Reuters journalists, and then laughing ...
Sinaloa Cartel gunmen opened fire on Mexican armed forces with a half-dozen .50-caliber truck-mounted machine guns. The army responded by calling in Blackhawk helicopter gunships to attack a convoy of 25 cartel vehicles, including the gun platforms. Then the cartel gunmen opened fire on the helicopters, forcing two of them down with "a ...
The violence in Nuevo Laredo, just south of Texas, followed the arrest of an alleged local cartel leader known as "El Ricky." Gunfights disrupt flights in Mexico border city, trigger U.S. warning ...
In fears of a coup, however, Caro Payán fled to Canada and was later arrested. Guzmán and the rest of the Sinaloa Cartel leaders consequently grew angry at the Arellano Félix clan about this. [58] In 1989, Guzmán sent Armando López (alias "El Rayo"), one of his most trusted men, to speak with the Arellano Félix clan in Tijuana.
The Mexican government now says it is bringing charges against Joaquín Guzmán López, but not because he was a leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel founded by his father, Joaquín “El Chapo ...
Guzmán and a lieutenant escaped through a secret tunnel, emerging 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) away and stealing an automobile at gunpoint. A statewide alert was issued for the stolen vehicle, and the Federal Police located and intercepted it about 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of Los Mochis near the town of Juan José Ríos.
Authorities in Mexico said Wednesday they have largely confirmed the contents of a grisly drug cartel video showing gunmen shooting, kicking and burning the corpses of their enemies. In a country ...