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Local December 12, 2011 | 8:13 am

Authorities: Major busts unleash turf war as Sinaloa Cartel takes root

Santo Domingo. - The decapitations of Dominican Republic’s main drug trafficking structures in the wake of arrests of major figures has unleashed a turf war, prompting Mexico’s violent Sinaloa Cartel to send its own personnel to supervise its illicit operations in the country, where it has installed its own mechanisms of torture and hired killings.

The authorities believe that at lea... Read more