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Topic: Mexican Cartels

Nogales, Mexico, is framed by slats in a border wall that separates it from Nogales, Ariz., Saturday, March 2, 2019. (AP/Charlie Riedel)

Power tools penetrate Trump's wall

Matthew Rozsa
This Feb. 22, 2014 file photo shows Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the head of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, being escorted to a helicopter in Mexico City. (AP/Eduardo Verdugo)

Kingpin El Chapo is jailed for life

Luis Gómez Romero - The Conversation
Rick Perry (AP/Pat Sullivan)

Rick Perry's borderline lie

Simon Maloy
Vigilantes of the Autodefensa movement celebrate the "liberation" of a town in the Mexican state of Michoacán, in a scene from "Cartel Land."

Road trip to the drug war

Andrew O'Hehir
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A distraught relative is held back after three men on a public bus were killed by unknown gunmen in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, Mexico, Monday March 1, 2013. (AP/Bernandino Hernandez)

Don Winslow on the drug war

Elias Isquith
(Via Wikicommons)

Dudley Althaus - GlobalPost

We got high; thousands died

Andrew O'Hehir
(AP/Eduardo Verdugo)

Chrisanne Grise - The Fix
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