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In El Chapo fallout, one of Chicago ‘cartel wives’ should get stiffer sentence than accomplices, feds say

They say Valerie Gaytan should get five years for laundering drug money from her husband Margarito Flores and his twin brother Pedro Flores, Chicago cocaine kingpins who helped convict the Sinaloa cartel boss. Her sister-in-law got 3½ years.

Chicago Sun-Times

Top lieutenant for drug kingpin ‘El Chapo’ gets more than 19 years in federal prison

Felipe Cabrera Sarabia, known as “The Engineer,” had pleaded guilty to a single count in a sweeping indictment that targeted the top hierarchy of the Sinaloa Cartel.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Cartel wife’ of Chicago cocaine kingpin gets 3 1/2 years for hiding hundreds of thousands of dollars from feds

Vivianna Lopez made an emotional plea for mercy, telling the judge she feared for the lives of her children after Pedro Flores and his brother, Margarito, famously turned against the Sinaloa cartel and helped bring down Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Seeking the perfect body: When low-cost plastic surgery in Mexico turns deadly

In this edition, where the desire for perfect beauty runs the risk of death or injury. We report from the Mexican state of Sinaloa where many women who can't afford plastic surgery, head to clandestine clinics offering low-cost cosmetic procedures. Also the Kinshasa shelter in the Democratic Republic of Congo…

France 24

Fellowship equips community members as nonlegal representatives in immigration cases

CHICAGO — For as long as she can remember, Martha Armenta felt invisible in the only country she knew as home. She grew up in Little Village, where her parents settled after moving to Chicago from Sinaloa, Mexico, escaping poverty and violence, she said.

Chicago Tribune

Land of no return: the Mexican city torn apart by cartel kidnappings

Violence in Fresnillo between Sinaloa and Jalisco groups mirrors national trend – and critics say Amlo has failed to act

The Guardian - US

El Chapo’s son, three Sinaloa cartel leaders and two Mexican firms sanctioned for bringing fentanyl into US

Tuesday's sanctions came the day Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was talking with President Joe Biden about immigration and the fentanyl crisis

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El Chapo’s son, Sinaloa members face sanctions over fentanyl

The United States has sanctioned a son of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, three members of the Sinaloa cartel and two Mexican-based firms, alleging they trafficked fentanyl and other drugs into the U.S. Tuesday's sanctions came the day Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was talking with President…

The Independent UK

Sons of 'El Chapo' deny US fentanyl indictment allegations

Sons of former Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán have denied accusations made by United States prosecutors last month, saying in a letter that they have no involvement in the production and trafficking of the potent synthetic opioid fentanyl

The Independent UK

Case details Sinaloa cartel's fentanyl-fueled evolution

Prosecutors revealed in a recent indictment that while Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán serves a life sentence, his sons have steered the family business into fentanyl, establishing a network of labs churning out massive quantities of the cheap, deadly drug that they smuggle into the U.S. The indictment…

The Independent UK

U.S. says it 'infiltrated' the Sinaloa drug cartel in the fight against fentanyl

In sweeping indictments, the Justice Department targeted two dozen operatives in the Chapitos network of the Sinaloa cartel. But many drug policy experts say this won't slow fentanyl deaths.

WEKU

US teen girl VANISHES in Mexican cartel hotspot as urgent 'Amber Alert' issued

US citizen Shelbie Lynn Dwyer, 17, disappeared in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. The State Attorney General's Office said that she may "have fallen victim to a crime"

Daily Mirror

Mexico and U.S. search for three American sailors last seen in Sinaloa

Mexico's Navy and the United States are searching for three American sailors who were last seen on April 4 in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

Reuters

U.S. charges El Chapo's sons and other Sinaloa cartel members in fentanyl trafficking

Members of the Mexican cartel are facing several charges involving fentanyl trafficking, weapons and money laundering in New York, Illinois and Washington, D.C.

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Chicago Sun-Times

4 ‘El Chapo’ sons indicted in Chicago, accused of ruthless takeover of Sinaloa Cartel

The charges against the four men known as the “Chapitos,” are part of a Justice Department campaign against what Attorney General Merrick Garland called “the largest, most violent and most prolific fentanyl trafficking operation in the world.” They even fed people to tigers, authorities say.

The Independent UK

El Chapo’s sons among 28 Sinaloa drug cartel members charged by Justice Department

The men are known as the Chapitos, or little Chapos, and are believed to be part of the most violent and aggressive faction of the Sinaloa drug cartel

The Independent UK

US charges 28 members of Sinaloa cartel, sons of El Chapo

The Justice Department has charged 28 members of Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel, including sons of notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman,” in a sprawling fentanyl-trafficking investigation

Reuters

US, Mexico agree to ramp up fight against fentanyl and arms trafficking

Mexico and the United States on Thursday agreed to ramp up the fight against fentanyl trafficking, as well as Mexico's Sinaloa and CJNG drug cartels and their supply chains, in joint bid to reduce consumption of the powerful opioid.

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France 24

Mexico: When low-cost plastic surgery turns deadly

Earlier this year in Mexico, 29-year-old Magnolia Camacho lost her life after undergoing more than 30 surgeries in six months, following the placement of a gastric band. In 2021, a 26-year-old woman died after a cosmetic surgery operation. In the Mexican state of Sinaloa, beauty standards mean that many women…

Reuters

Ally of Mexico's 'El Chapo' extradited to US over drug charges

A top member of the powerful Mexican drug cartel formerly led by notorious kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is facing international drug trafficking and firearms charges after being extradited to the U.S., the Justice Department said on Tuesday.

Reuters

Amid U.S. pressure on fentanyl, Mexico raises drug lab raids data

Mexico's army has dramatically revised upward the number of drug lab raids it says it conducted under President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, according to government data and leaked military documents reviewed by Reuters.

Chicago Sun-Times

DEA’s new Chicago boss Sheila Lyons: Will target fentanyl, an ‘awful, terrible challenge’

Lyons, the first woman to hold the post, says she’ll target Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco New Generation Cartel, saying the fentanyl they supply is “like nothing I’ve ever seen in my 30 years in law enforcement.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Mexico President Andrés López Obrador blames fentanyl crisis on U.S., denies his country produces the opioid

Despite enormous evidence to the contrary, he said: “Here, we do not produce fentanyl, and we do not have consumption of fentanyl. Why don’t they” — the United States — “take care of their problem of social decay?”

Tribune News Service

Mexico’s former top security official convicted in federal corruption trial in Brooklyn

NEW YORK — Mexico’s former top cop used the police force he commanded to help a drug cartel do business, a federal jury in Brooklyn found Tuesday.

The Independent UK

Mexico’s former top security official convicted in US of taking cartel bribes

Genaro Garcia Luna is one of the most senior Mexican officials ever convicted of ties to a drug cartel

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