Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Mexico Drug Cartel War News Updates -- January 18, 2011

Flavio Mendez Santiago, alias "El Amarillo," founding member of the Zetas drug cartel, was arrested in southern Mexico. Photo from CNN

Mexico's Drug War Hits YouTube (Again) As Cartel Boss Photos Go Viral -- Christian Science Monitor

Mexico's federal prosecutor's office discovered on YouTube photos of the alleged leader of the Tijuana Cartel, showing him posing on a beach and riding in a boat, and reposted them on its Most-Wanted website.

It seems no one is safe from exposure on the Internet. Not even the most feared and secretive Mexican drug gangs.

Mexico’s federal prosecutor’s office discovered on YouTube recent photos of the alleged leader of the Tijuana Cartel and posted them to its Most Wanted website. The photos went viral Tuesday and have been circulated on the Internet by major newspapers.

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More News On Mexico's Drug Cartel War

Mexico police: founding member of Zetas captured -- AP
Mexico Police: Founding Member Of Zetas Captured -- CBS News/AP
Mexico Captures Alleged Leader of ‘Zetas’ Gang -- Bloomberg Businessweek
Mexican police capture leader of Zetas drug cartel -- AFP
Mexico announces capture of one of the founders of Los Zetas -- CNN

Mutilated bodies found near Mexico's richest city
-- Reuters
2 likely bystanders among 6 slain at Mexican store -- Washington Post/AP
10 Killed by mobsters in Mexico -- FOX News
DRUG WAR: 12 suspects, 2 soldiers die in Mexico gunbattle -- Daily Breeze/AP
Mexico's notorious drug kingpin 'El Chapo' Guzman expands empire a decade after storied escape -- Canadian Press
Brutal Drug Raid Killing Caught on Video -- Stop The Drug War
Amid drug violence, Acapulco watches tourism recede -- Vancouver Sun/L.A. Times

Number of Innocents Killed in Mexico Drug War Up 172% -- Latin American Herald Tribune
Mexican official: 34,612 drug-war deaths in 4 yrs -- TMCnet.com/AP
Mexico drug war death toll up 60 percent in 2010 -- MinnPost.com
Mexico updates four years of drug war deaths to 34,612 -- BBC
In Mexico, Death Toll in Drug War Hits Record -- Wall Street Journal
Mexico drugs violence makes 2010 bloodiest year -- Financial Times
Mexico drug wars have killed 35,000 people in four years -- The Guardian
More than 15,000 gangland killings in Mexico last year -- FOX News
15,273 killed in Mexico drug violence in 2010 -- AFP

Guatemala army no match for Mexican drug gangs -- Reuters
Gang's terror felt far from drug war on US border -- AP
Drug war increasingly brings violence to Mexico's southern border -- Statesman.com

Mexico losing its war with drug cartels -- Sara A. Carter, Washington Examiner
Caught in the crossfire -- Michael Deibert, Miami Herald
Is Mexico a Country on Fire? -- Frank Holmes, IBTimes

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