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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.
- John Kuroski
The assassins are young Mexican women who ooze beauty and charm — known as “Las Flacas” (Skinny Girls) — and are now common place in major criminal cartels and their drug trafficking operations.
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.
Jan 17, 2024 · The new Netflix series Griselda casts light on a lesser-known figure in drug trafficking, and is part of a growing awareness of the women who run drug cartels in Latin America.
Jul 28, 2015 · Five members of a Mexican street gang on Monday night were sentenced to almost 700 years in prison each for the kidnapping, trafficking, and murder of 11 women in the border city of Juarez,...
Oct 27, 2023 · October 27, 2023, 9:44am. MEXICO CITY – Guadalupe Fernández Valencia, also known as “la Patrona,” is the highest-ranking woman in the Sinaloa Cartel known to date. She just walked free this...
Nov 14, 2023 · 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.
