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Other women work as drug mules, killers, or as “la gancha” (the hook), using their beauty to attract male kidnapping victims. At least one woman, Sandra Ávila Beltrán, became a major cartel...
Isabel is in her twenties. She asks us to protect her identity as she is terrified of being tracked down by the cartel who murdered her brother.
Feb 3, 2021 · ‘Please, Give Me Back My Daughter’. The remarkable story of one mother’s implausible quest to bring a cartel to justice for the murder of her child.
Aug 23, 2016 · Mexican federal forces killed at least 42 suspected cartel members — with only one police officer dead — during a three-hour gunfight in the ranch, marking one of the Mexican drug war's bloodiest battles.
Nov 8, 2013 · Marisol Espinoza, a 20-year-old woman from Chiapas, Mexico in a shelter for deportees and migrants the night after she was deported from the United States.
Oct 2, 2013 · Dead bodies make for some of the most shocking photos to come out of Mexico's drug wars, but they only tell a small part of the story. Mauricio Palos's portfolio about violence in Mexico is...
Jun 28, 2016 · An unprecedented Amnesty International investigation of 100 women arrested in Mexico reveals that they are routinely sexually abused by the security forces who want to secure confessions and boost figures in an attempt to show that they are tackling rampant organized crime.
