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Mexico: Drug Cartel Used Prison to Dispose of Bodies
Loaded on Sept. 2, 2016
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2016, page 29
Filed under:
Prison Gangs,
War on Drugs,
International,
Prisoners-International.
Locations:
Mexico,
United States of America.
Mexico’s national defense department calls the Zetas “the most formidable death squad to have worked for organized crime in Mexican history.” U.S. officials agree, saying the gang is “the most technologically advanced, sophisticated and dangerous cartel operating in Mexico.”
One of the Zetas’ most gruesome atrocities was the Allende Massacre ...
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