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Mexico has been besieged by gigantic drug cartels that have been causing widespread violence in the country. Drug violence in Mexico has been particularly alarming in 2009. It is said that there are two kinds of cartel wars in Mexico: the government of Mexico vs. drug cartels and the various cartels fighting one another. This is for the obvious reason [...]

The founder of the Mexican drug cartel ‘The Gulf,’ Gregorio Sauceda alias ‘El Goyo,’ ‘El Caramuela,’ or ‘Metro 2’ and one of the US DEA most wanted has been arrested in Mexico. Sauceda was apprehended in Matamoros on the US border, in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas. Sauceda is accused of organized crime and violations [...]