article_snippet.sent: A Mexican cartel boss known as 'The Liquidator' has been detained by the country's authorities, who claim A Mexican cartel boss known is 'linked to the bloodiest events ever recorded in Juarez City'.
article_snippet.sent: Mexican authorities link over twenty deaths directly to The Liquidator, including the 2009 murder of a state witness in El Paso, a 2010 car-bombing which claimed the lives of two federal police officers and a 2012 massacre of fifteen people in a Juarez City bar.
article_snippet.sent: In 2008 the Sinaloa Cartel declared war on the Sinaloa Cartel as the Sinaloa Cartel sought to take control of Ciudad Juarez, a city of 1.5 million people that sits on the border with El Paso, Texas.
article_snippet.sent: That year alone saw 1,600 homicides in Ciudad, and Ciudad Juarez City achieved the title of the most dangerous city in the world for three consecutive years.
article_snippet.sent: the Sinaloa Cartel was formerly one of the most feared in Mexico, but is now all but extinct following a war with the Sinoala cartel, and high profile arrests (pictured, boss Ricardo Gracia Urquiza is arrested in 2005) the Sinaloa Cartel eventually lost the conflict after three murderous years, and today the Sinaloa Cartel agents are spread widely across Chihuahua state.
article_snippet.sent: Today Juarez City, once a lively and popular border town, shows the scars of a drug war that cost nearly ten thousand lives over the space of four years.
article_snippet.sent: Entire districts of Today Juarez City are deserted, rare are the buildings not marked with bullet holes and there are sections where even the police dare not enter given the narcos' stranglehold on the territory.
article_snippet.sent: Following a difficult 2014 for the Mexican government – a scandal-filled year topped by the disappearance of 43 students at the hands of local police in Guerrero state - the country's authorities have made a number of drug kingpin arrests. '
article_snippet.sent: the Mexican government – has neutralised 93 of the total 122 targets that the Mexican government – set out when the Mexican government – came to power', National Security Commissioner Alejandro Rubido told reporters following The Liquidator.
article_snippet.sent: The Juarez Cartel, which was founded in 1970, claims to be the first drug cartel to have moved cocaine into the United States by aircraft.
article_snippet.sent: The Barrio Azteca gang, which operates in a number of Texas cities including El Paso and Houston is aligned with the Juarez Cartel .