Drug cartel

Authorities say the slaughter is drug related.

Seven people have been arrested after the killing of three women and six children from a Mormon community in northern Mexico. This was reported by the prosecutor's office of the country, cited by AFP.

Speaking in April last year, Britain's ambassador to Albania, Duncan Norman, said "60 to 70 per cent" of 726 Albanian inmates at that time in Britain were from these three northern counties.

Deeply impoverished, the region has become a rich recruitment ground for the Albanian crime gangs that now dominate the cocaine market in Britain.

These gangs, also known as "Mafia Shqiptare", have slowly take over the market in this country "after steadily moving into the country after the fall of communism in Albania in 1990."

A notorious trafficker was killed in Colombia by the army, said President Juan Manuel Santos, quoted by the France press.

BELGRADE - An international drug cartel has been dismantled and 30 people arrested in a joint operation of the Serbian and the German police, Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said Tuesday.

BELGRADE - An international drug cartel has been dismantled and 30 people arrested in a joint operation of the Serbian and the German police, Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said Tuesday.

Have you ever wondered why the drug cartel members get those scary tattoos from head to toes? Is it just because it makes them look meaner and tougher than the average Joe? Or is it because they simply like getting ink on their bodies?

A gunfight between security forces and an armed group claimed the lives of at least 43 people in the state of Michoacan in southwestern Mexico on Friday.

The shoot-out, which lasted for about three hours and was probably drug-related, took place in Tanhuato near the Jalisco state border.

The head of the once-powerful Juarez drug cartel has been captured, officials said on April 19, confirming the most recent in a string of victories against Mexico's narco-traffickers.

Authorities captured Jesus Salas Aguayo, 38, on Arpil 17 at his ranch in the northern Mexican village of Villa Ahumada, some 120 kilometers from Ciudad Juarez.

The bodies of 31 people, some mutilated, have been exhumed from a mass grave in Veracruz, a stronghold of the Zetas, one of Mexico's most bloodthirsty cartels, a military official said.
      
The bodies were of 24 men and seven women, the official said, raising a toll of 28 given earlier by prosecutors.