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“An agent persuaded a high-level Zetas operative to hand over the trackable cellphone identification numbers for two of the cartel’s most wanted kingpins, Miguel Ángel Treviño and his brother Omar.” For the DEA, this looked like an important break in their case against top drug cartel leaders. Instead, it triggered a long and deadly assault on a Mexican town near the Texas border. From ProPublica: How the US triggered a massacre In Mexico. This story provides a good reminder that the drug-related violence in Mexico is not isolated. It’s part of an ecosystem of horrors that includes, and is often driven by, actions in the US.
+ Men’s Journal: Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man.