Mexico City Tourist Area Appears to Come Into Cartel's Crosshairs
AFP said the unverified clip spread quickly online as it threatened local gangs and promised to end extortion.
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AlKhaleej TodayCartel video fuels fears of drug violence reaching Mexico City
Mexico City, July 17 — Mexico’s vibrant capital city has been relatively untouched by decades of drug violence, but a video of self-styled cartel gunmen claiming to operate in a neighborhood popular with tourists has sparked fears that could change.“The clean-up has already begun,” declares the masked man wielding a military-grade assault rifle and flanked by a dozen supposed operatives from one of the country’s most feared cartels.The gunman th…
Mexico City tourist area appears to come into cartel's crosshairs
"The clean-up has already begun," declares the masked man wielding a military-grade assault rifle and flanked by a dozen supposed operatives from one of the country's most feared cartels. The gunman threatens local criminal groups and claims to be from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel -- an ultra-violent paramilitary gang involved in extortion and money laundering, and which runs a global drug trafficking network. Mexico has been plagued by ca…
Armed men, masked and in military clothing, promise in a video to "clean" Xochimilco of criminals, a highly touristic district of the southern capital of Mexico City.
Armed men who identify themselves as members of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) broadcast a video threatening rival groups in Xochimilco.
Armed men, ambushed and in military clothes promise in a video "cleansing" of criminals Xochimilco, a tourist neighborhood of southern Mexico City until now alien to the bloody disputes between narcos.
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