Ecuador on Sunday extradited to the United States the leader of a violent Ecuadorian gang who relied on hitmen, bribes and military weapons to do business. It marks the first time an Ecuadorian has been extradited to the U.S. directly from Ecuador. José Adolfo Macías Villamar, whose nickname is “Fito,” escaped from a prison in…
A popular Mexican band has been fined more than $36,000 for performing songs glorifying drug cartels, authorities in the northern city of Chihuahua announced Wednesday. At a Los Tucanes de Tijuana performance on Saturday, nearly a third of their songs were “narcocorridos” glamorizing drug traffickers, according to city official Pedro Oliva. The songs “glorified crime or…
A fire in a drug rehabilitation center in the violence-plagued Mexican state of Guanajuato killed 12 people and injured at least three others, authorities said Sunday. The fire broke out early Sunday in the town of San Jose Iturbe, where the municipal government said it was still investigating what caused the deadly blaze. “We express…
The popular Mexican regional music band Grupo Firme announced on Friday that it was canceling a performance in a music festival in California over the weekend after the United States government suspended the musicians’ visas. It comes after the U.S. State Department has revoked visas of a number of Mexican musicians for playing a genre…
A leader of a notorious Mexican drug cartel who had a bounty on his head in the United States has died in a clash with army troops, authorities said Saturday. Sinaloa state, where the powerful cartel of the same name is based, is enduring a war between two rival factions that has left some 1,200 people…
The murders of two Mexico City officials, in a rush-hour shooting on a busy avenue, were meticulously planned by experienced gunmen, prosecutors said Wednesday, as more details emerged of the worst attack against public officials in the capital in recent years. At least four people were involved in the killing of the personal secretary and…
Clashes between two armed groups left six civilians dead near Mexico’s crime-plagued beachside city of Acapulco, authorities said Tuesday. The violence erupted on Monday night in a town called Kilometro 30 located on a highway to Mexico City, the Guerrero state prosecutor’s office said in a statement. The victims were five men and an elderly…
