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Mexico: Defence Secretary gives blow-by-blow account of violence after 'El Chapo' son nabbed
•Thursday's violence was unusual in that it also targeted and forced the closure of Culiacan's airport, where one military plane and a civilian airliner were hit by bullets
Violence hits Mexico cartel stronghold as 'El Chapo' son nabbed
•Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has railed against his predecessors' aggressive efforts to capture drug lords, but his administration bagged the high-profile cartel figure just days before hosting US President Joe Biden
Mexican security forces captures son of drug lord 'El Chapo' before US President Joe Biden's visit
•Ovidio Guzmán, nicknamed 'the Mouse', had not been one of El Chapo's better-known sons until an aborted operation to capture him three years ago
Asia’s ‘El Chapo’ extradited to Australia: How Tse Chi Lop ran a multibillion-dollar meth empire
Fp Explainers •Tse Chi Lop has been extradited to Australia from The Netherlands. Tse, who is known as Asia’s ‘El Chapo, is the head of the ‘The Company’ which dominates the $70 billion-per-year Asia-Pacific drug trade. Investigators note that the syndicate narcotics in Myanmar and then ships them across the world
US judge upholds conviction of notorious drug lord 'El Chapo' Guzman
•Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman was convicted in February 2019 of trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine and other drugs into the United States over the course of 25 years
Tracing the life of El Chapo's wife Emma Coronel Aispuro: From obscurity to celebrity and arrest
•In embracing the limelight, had Coronel put a target on her own back?
Mexican cartel chief El Chapo's wife Emma Coronel Aispuro arrested in US on drug charges
•Aispuro is charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs in the US and is accused of helping her husband escape from a Mexican prison in 2015
Three American women, 6 children killed in deadly ambush in Mexico; doubts raised over President Manual Obrador's 'hugs, not bullets' security strategy
•When drug cartel gunmen opened fire on American women and children in northern Mexico, the Mexican Army, the National Guard and Sonora state police were not there to protect them.
Mexican cartel gunmen force cops to free drug lord El Chapo's son; security minister says decision taken to maintain peace in city
•Heavily armed fighters surrounded security forces in a Mexican city and made them free one of drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman’s sons, after his capture triggered gunbattles and a prison break
Jeffrey Epstein found dead in Manhattan jail: Apparent suicide by high-profile detainee triggers outcry as FBI launches probe
•US financier Jeffrey Epstein, was found dead in jail Saturday of an apparent suicide, triggering outcry over how the high-profile detainee could die in custody.