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8 Drug cartel suspects arrested in Mexico

May 18th 2012 - 12:03PM

Mexican army soldiers detained eight purported members of the Gulf drug cartel during an operation in the small northeastern town of China, the Defense Secretariat said.

nuevo leon News From the Web

  • 05/31/12 Time to start calling the Mexico violence a war? Source: Houston Chronicle - Houston TX With each passing day, there is more proof.
  • 05/16/12 The War Next Door Source: Human Events The results of drug-related violence in our most populous neighbor are truly horrific: just this week, 49 mutilated and decapitated bodies were found in a city just 80 miles from the United States.
  • 05/14/12 Mexicans Condemn Massacre in Cadereyta, Nuevo Leon Source: Global Voices Online On May 13, 2012, Mexico woke up to see yet another result of the battle being fought as part of the current administration's war against organized crime.
  • 05/14/12 49 bodies left on Mexico highway Source: Longview News-Journal - Longview TX Forty-nine decapitated and mutilated bodies were found Sunday dumped on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the U.S. border in what appeared to be the latest blow in an escalating war of intimidation among drug gangs.
  • 05/13/12 49 dismembered bodies dumped on Mexican highway Source: CTV News MONTERREY, Mexico Forty-nine decapitated and mutilated bodies were found Sunday dumped on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the U.S. border in what appears to be the latest blow in an escalating war of intimidation among drug gangs.

Background on nuevo leon

Nuevo León (), officially Free and Sovereign State of Nuevo León (), is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.

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