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Mayoral candidate for a Mexican city is on DEA s Most Wanted list - but he insists it s just a case of mistaken identities
Rogelio Portillo Jaramillo, who is running for mayor in Michoacán, Mexico, denied he is the man pictured on a DEA wanted post
During a campaign appearance on Tuesday, he joked that he was a very easy person to track down and suggested he d be happy to clear things up
They say the DEA is looking for me, the jovial 41-year-old said. I am Morena s official legal candidate - I don t know how they haven t found me!
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The Drug Enforcement Administration s latest report on illicit drugs and drug trafficking details what the agency says is cartel influence in the US.
Security experts and cartel operatives in Mexico dispute the DEA s depiction, however, arguing the links are more tenuous than the DEA describes them.
Ciudad Juarez, MEXICO The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently released its annual National Drug Threat Assessment, in which it maps out the states where Mexican drug cartels have gained influence.
Asked about that depiction of cartel presence in the US, security experts and cartel sources told Insider it s bullshit.
The DEA s report says Mexican transnational criminal organizations, or TCOs, maintain great influence in most US states, with the Sinaloa Cartel and Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion showing the biggest signs of expansion.
Mexico s child vigilantes: Boys as young as five are trained to use guns to fight drug gangs in violence-ravaged state
Rising violence in Guerrero State has led community police in one indigenous community to enlist their sons to help defend the village
Chilling pictures show youngsters armed with rifles marching through the village and army crawling along the ground
The recruitment of children has been condemned by the government and rights groups but community leaders say it shows the desperate situation