#The US rifle loved by cartels, feared by Mexican police

#The US rifle loved by cartels, feared by Mexican police

“#The US rifle loved by cartels, feared by Mexican police” MEXICO CITY, Aug 6 – The flow of high-caliber arms smuggled across the porous US border has alarmed Mexican officials and few weapons are as powerful as the US-made M82 semi-automatic rifle increasingly favored by the powerful drug cartels. The M82 can easily penetrate bulletproof vests, concrete walls and even tanks, says its…

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#18 killed in bloody shootout between Mexican drug cartels

#18 killed in bloody shootout between Mexican drug cartels

“#18 killed in bloody shootout between Mexican drug cartels” Eighteen people were killed during a bloody shootout between suspected Mexican drug cartels on Friday. The gunfight happened in the city of Valparaiso in a remote area of Zacatecas state, just north of Mexico City, according to several reports, citing Rocio Aguilar, a spokeswoman for the…

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#Inside industrial-made meth’s meteoric rise in NYC

#Inside industrial-made meth’s meteoric rise in NYC

“#Inside industrial-made meth’s meteoric rise in NYC” A “tidal wave” of dangerous synthetic drugs is flooding New York City, with methamphetamines and fentanyl pouring over the U.S. southern border at alarming rates and quickly finding their way into local neighborhoods, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency said. This influx of dangerous drugs is having a deadly…

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#Texas governor demands Biden take ‘immediate action’ on cartels

#Texas governor demands Biden take ‘immediate action’ on cartels

“#Texas governor demands Biden take ‘immediate action’ on cartels” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants the Biden administration to take “immediate action” against Mexican drug cartels by designating them as foreign terrorist organizations. In a Thursday letter to President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, Abbott took aim at the “dangerous and deadly” Mexican drug cartels…

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#19 bodies found burned and shot in Mexico

#19 bodies found burned and shot in Mexico

“#19 bodies found burned and shot in Mexico” Mexican police found 19 bodies — many of them burned and shot — in a remote area near the US border that is known for drug smuggling violence. Authorities said the bodies were found in an uninhabited region of Tamaulipas, about 40 miles south of Rio Grande…

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#DEA seizes record amount of meth in California drug bust

#DEA seizes record amount of meth in California drug bust

“#DEA seizes record amount of meth in California drug bust” The US Drug Enforcement Administration recovered over 2,200 pounds of methamphetamine earlier this month in Southern California, the agency’s largest-ever domestic seizure of the drug, officials said Wednesday. The agency executed the bust on Oct. 2 at stash houses in Riverside County, east of Los…

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