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Credit: Mexico's National Security Cabinet

U.S. Forcing Mexico to Take Down Terrorist Cartel, Three of Five Top Bosses Jailed or Killed

Pressure from the U.S. government on Mexico forced the country’s political elite to overlook prior protection and preferential treatment and hunt down key leaders of the terrorist organization Carteles Unidos. The results of this new effort by Mexico to appease the United States led to the arrest of two leaders and the death of a third one in recent weeks, while the two highest-ranking leaders with the most political connections remain at large.