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Once a Mexican drug trafficker s paradise, El Aguaje now a ghost town

2 minutes read By Marco Antonio Duarte Morelia, Mexico, Apr 25 (EFE).- Once a national leader in marijuana cultivation, the Mexican town of El Aguaje now faces a massive exodus of families who made their fortunes selling the drug. El Aguaje is the most recognized town in the municipality of Aguililla, in the western Mexican state of Michoacán, and famous for “narcocorridos,” the Mexican drug-dealer ballads that describe its history as a “narco town,” although today it only has around 300 inhabitants of the 15,000 that had in the 1990s. At that time, the town was known as a “narco’s paradise” by the dozens of families who built ostentatious residences accompanied by luxurious trucks at their doors.

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Papal Nuncio visits Mexico town hit by drone, cartel attacks

ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn Papal Nuncio Mons • 3 min read The Associated Press Monsignor Franco Coppola, the Vatican s diplomat to Mexico, greets people as he arrives to meet families and celebrate Mass in Aguililla, a town that has been cut off by warring cartels in Michoacan state, Mexico, Friday, April 23, 2021. State police and soldiers were sent in to restore order earlier this month, but cartels responded by parking hijacked trucks across roads to block them, as well as digging deep trenches across roadways. (AP Photo/Armando Solis) MEXICO CITY Papal Nuncio Mons. Franco Coppola paid a visit Friday to a remote mountain hamlet in southern Mexico that has been ravaged by killings, drug cartel turf battles and even exploding drones attacks on police.

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