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Accused Drug Lord Killed in Mexico Shootout

MEXICO CITY (Nov. 6) -- Mexican marines killed a reputed Gulf cartel leader and one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords in a spectacular, hours-long gunbattle near the U.S. border, the latest in a growing number of hits on the country's drug kingpins. Antonio Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen, also known as "Tony Tormenta" or...

As Mexico Celebrates Bicentennial, Drug War Claims the Headlines

(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...

Drug Lord Ignacio 'Nacho' Coronel Killed in Mexico

(July 29) -- Score one for Mexico. Reports are sketchy, but the Mexican government is said to have killed one of its most wanted drug traffickers, Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel, in a shootout today in Zapopan, a suburb of Guadalajara. Coronel was indicted in 2003 by a federal grand jury in Texas. The U.S. government offered...

Jamaica: 73 Killed in Hunt for Alleged Drug Lord

KINGSTON, Jamaica (May 27) - Jamaican security forces kicked down doors and arrested dozens of residents of a bullet-pocked slum on Thursday, and said the death toll from four days of fighting sparked by the search for a reputed drug lord has risen to 73. The target of the manhunt, Christopher "Dudus" Coke, was nowhere to...

Background on drug lord

A drug lord, drug baron or kingpin is the term used to describe a person who controls a sizable network of persons involved in the illegal drugs trade.

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