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Mexico's Alleged Drug Queen Gets Botox Treatment in Prison
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsPrison officials in Mexico are in hot water today as authorities investigate how an alleged drug cartel "queen" was able to receive Botox treatments from behind bars. Sandra Avila Beltran, the so-called "Queen of the Pacific," is accused of operating as a senior member of the powerful Sinaloa cartel and has been jailed since 2007 on charges of conspiracy to commit drug trafficking and engage in organized crime. At this stage in her life, though, Mexico City prosecutors say Avila Beltran has turned to smuggling of a very different kind. They say top officials at the Santa Martha Acatitla ...
Mexican Border City Hits 3,000 Dead in Drug War
By not in system - AOL NewsMEXICO CITY (Dec. 14) -- This year's death toll in drug-related violence in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, the hardest hit by Mexico's drug war, rose to 3,000 Tuesday after two men were shot dead on a street, authorities said. Ciudad Juarez has seen its homicide rate rise to one of the highest in the world after vicious turf battles broke out between gangs representing the Juarez and Sinaloa drug cartels in 2008. That year, 1,623 people were killed in drug-related violence, and the toll increased to 2,763 deaths in 2009. With prosecutors' spokesman Arturo Sandoval announcing the latest ...
Ecstasy Makes a Comeback, Via Canada
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Oct. 4) -- Ecstasy was so hot in the 1990s. And now the rave-favorite drug is making a major comeback, as Canadian purveyors ship loads of the euphoria-enhancing substance across the U.S. border. One a drug that circulated in baggies via small dealers, ecstasy is now being packed up by the box-load and driven into the United States by truck drivers, according to a report from the Detroit Free Press. "It's coming back, and coming back strongly," Rich Isaacson, with the Detroit division of the Drug and Enforcement Administration, told the paper. "It's one of those things that without keeping ...
Illicit Drug Use Hits Highest Levels in a Decade
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Sept. 16) -- Illicit drug use spiked to 9 percent among Americans last year, according to a new national survey that blames the increase on "eroding attitudes" about the potential hazards. The growing popularity of marijuana was chiefly responsible for the rise, along with Ecstasy and methamphetamines. Drug use is now the highest it's been in a decade, according to the annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health. The survey polled 67,500 Americans aged 12 and older and is widely considered the most accurate, comprehensive research on drug popularity. Gil Kerlikowske, a veteran of drug ...
As Mexico Celebrates Bicentennial, Drug War Claims the Headlines
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Sept. 13) -- Mexico's bicentennial celebrations this week will be overshadowed by the ongoing drug war and its rampant violence. In some of the most violent regions of the country, Independence Day festivities have been canceled or dramatically altered for public safety. And though there has been some recent good news in the government's war on drugs, the cartels' reign of terror continues. Headlines from the last week alone provide an indicator of where the country stands today. 1. "El Grande" captured On Sunday, Mexican marines captured Sergio "El Grande" Villarreal, an alleged kingpin in ...
Mexican Soldiers Kill 25 Suspected Cartel Members
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(Sept. 3) -- Los Zetas, a suspected Mexican drug cartel, may have taken a major hit amid the growing violence in the northeastern section of the country. Authorities believe that at least 25 members of the ruthless organization were killed in a gunbattle with soldiers, according to reports. Only two soldiers were wounded. A military surveillance plane flying over Ciudad Mier in Tamaulipas state spotted armed men Thursday, The Associated Press reported. The bloody fight ensued. The military rescued three people believed to be kidnapping victims, as well as seizing rifles, grenades and ...
Top Mexican Drug Lord Killed in Military Raid
By not in system - AOL NewsMEXICO CITY (July 29) -- The Mexican army says one of the top three leaders of Mexico's most powerful drug cartel has been killed in a clash with soldiers. The death of Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel is the biggest strike yet against the Sinaloa cartel since President Felipe Calderon launched a military offensive against drug traffickers in late 2006. The army says Coronel opened fire on soldiers and was killed Thursday. Coronel was believed to be "the forerunner in producing massive amounts of methamphetamine in clandestine laboratories in Mexico, then smuggling it into the U.S.," according to ...
Police Capture Drug Lieutenant in Northern Mexico
By not in system - AOL NewsTIJUANA, Mexico (July 28) -- A suspected drug cartel lieutenant with a quarter-million-dollar reward on his head was captured in the border state of Chihuahua, where rival gangs are waging a bloody turf war, police said Wednesday. Rogelio Segovia Hernandez, who reputedly helped lead the La Linea gang that worked for the Juarez cartel, was detained Tuesday in the state capital of Chihuahua. Federal police in a statement claimed that Segovia Hernandez was in charge of killings, drug distribution, extortion and kidnappings for the cartel in the areas around Ciudad Juarez, which lies across the ...
Mexico: Prison Guards Let Killers Out, Lent Guns
By not in system - AOL NewsMEXICO CITY (July 25) -- Guards and officials at a prison in northern Mexico allegedly let inmates out, lent them guns and sent them off in official vehicles to carry out drug-related killings, including the massacre of 17 people last week, prosecutors said Sunday. After carrying out the killings the inmates would return to their cells, the Attorney General's Office said in a revelation that was shocking even for a country wearied by years of drug violence and corruption. "According to witnesses, the inmates were allowed to leave with authorization of the prison director ... to carry out ...
Panama's Ex-Dictator Noriega Stands Trial in France
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(June 28) -- Just two months after being extradited from the U.S. -- where he had served more than 20 years in jail -- ex-Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega is now facing another lengthy stretch in jail. The former Central American strongman, 76, today went on trial in Paris, accused of laundering Colombian drug money through French bank accounts. If found guilty, Noriega could go down for another 10 years. Eyewitnesses reported that the aging general -- who ruled Panama from 1981 to 1989, when he was deposed by an American invasion -- looked frail and sick as he started his testimony in ...
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