In towns like Guachochi, Batopilas, Guadalupe and Calvo, 15-year-olds carry backpacks full of drugs for more than three days in exchange for a pair of running shoes.
Police spokesman Leonel Sauceda calls Franco Daniel Lombardi the Sinaloa cartel's "financial arm" in Honduras.
One of them was Dámaso López Núñez, aka “El Licenciado” whom authorities say is the real leader of the Sinaloa cartel, above “El Mayo” Zambada.
They were convicted in Washington's U.S. District Court after a four-week trial on one count each of conspiring to import and distribute cocaine in the United States.
Marco Tulio Carrillo Grande is considered one of the main figures behind the escalating violence in Tijuana.
English08/03/2016
El Chapo's daughter is being forced to recant her statements: reporter of The Guardian
José Luis Montenegro said that the British newspaper will publish in the next days that Rosa Isela spent New Year's Eve with his father, and not Lucero Sánchez, a former legislator whose immunity was withdrawn.
Víctor Emilio Cazares Gastellum made an initial court appearance Monday on conspiracy and money laundering charges.
On Friday Rosa Isela Guzmán, alleged daughter of "El Chapo", said to the British newspaper The Guardian that he was betrayed by the federal government and Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.
The drug lord has launched a PR blitz, calling on his lawyers and even his common-law wife to keep his name in the news.
In an interview with EL UNIVERSAL, José Refugio Rodríguez Núñez, lawyer of the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, said that he will ask U.S. authorities to be kept at a middle-security prison.