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On August 13, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned four Mexican individuals, and 13 Mexican companies linked to timeshare fraud led by the Cartel de ...
Controversial Mexican music star Ernesto Barajas - who glorified drug lords in his songs - was shot dead in a parking lot on Tuesday.
Ernesto Barajas was gunned down in the city of Zapopan, police said. Another man died in the attack and a woman was injured.
A popular Mexican musician known for singing about drug lords was shot dead late Tuesday in western Mexico, authorities said. Ernesto Barajas, lead singer ...
Mexican regional music singer and songwriter Ernesto Barajas was shot and killed in Jalisco, Central Mexico, on Tuesday, ...
Enigma Norteño became famous for their narcocorridos, a sub-genre in regional Mexican music featuring ballads about drug cartels, their lives, and violence. Some of their other hits include Que Seas ...
Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada is accused of ordering torture, plotting murders and flooding the U.S. with cocaine, heroin and ...
Villar, chief executive officer of Latin music company Del Records, was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison for ...
Latin music executive Ángel del Villar, instrumental in building Peso Pluma’s early career, was sentenced to four years in prison for money laundering. Music executive Ángel del Villar, who built the ...
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East Africa can’t just have links to criminal cartels

Ordinarily, the unsealing of the US indictment — charging individuals from Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania with conspiring to supply arms to one of the world’s most violent drug cartels — ought to have ...