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Authorities receive apology letter after abduction, deaths of U.S. citizens in Mexico

By Alfredo Peña, Associated Press

A letter claiming to be from the Mexican drug cartel blamed for abducting four Americans and killing two of them condemned the violence and said the gang turned over to authorities its own members who were responsible.

Mexico’s former public security chief convicted in U.S. drug case

By Jennifer Peltz, Bobby Caina Calvan, Associated Press

A U.S. jury has convicted a former Mexican presidential cabinet member of taking massive bribes to protect the drug cartels he was tasked with combating.

AP report: Former DEA agent tells his own story of corruption before jail time

By Jim Mustian, Joshua Goodman, Associated Press

All this revelry was rooted, Irizarry said, in a crushing realization among DEA agents around the world that there's nothing they can do to make a dent in the drug war anyway.

Mexico’s president seeks to bypass congress to keep army involved in policing

By María Verza, Associated Press

Mexico’s president has begun exploring plans to sidestep congress to hand formal control of the National Guard to the army, a move that could extend the military’s control over policing in a country with high levels of violence.

Mexico’s drug war fought with drones, human shields, gunships

By Mark Stevenson, Associated Press

Residents of the town of Aguililla are fed up with the army's strategy to simply separate competing gangs. They want the army to either fight both cartels, or let the two gangs fight it out.

Mexico sues U.S. gun manufacturers over arms trafficking toll

By E. Eduardo Castillo, Associated Press

The Mexican government is suing U.S. gun manufacturers and distributors, arguing that their commercial practices have unleashed tremendous bloodshed in Mexico.

Wife of drug kingpin ‘El Chapo’ pleads guilty to U.S. charges

By Michael Balsamo, Associated Press

The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has pleaded guilty to charges in the U.S. that alleged she helped her husband run his multibillion-dollar criminal empire.

In government’s absence, Mexicans turn to cartels for pandemic aid

By Nick Schifrin, Ali Rogin

President Trump will welcome the president of Mexico to the White House on Wednesday. The country has more than 215,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the second-highest total in Latin America. More than 20,000 deaths have been recorded from the pandemic…

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News Wrap: 9 Americans killed in brutal Mexican ambush

In our news wrap Tuesday, nine Americans, including six children, were brutally killed in an ambush in northern Mexico, about 75 miles south of the U.S. border. Mexican officials are investigating whether the attack was a case of mistaken identity.

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