Mexican drugs baron who stewed enemies in boiling oil and beheaded hundreds captured

Zetas drug cartel leader Miguel Angel Trevino Morales after his arrest

Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, known as 'Z-40' who stewed enemies in boiling oil and beheaded hundreds has been caught in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico along with $ 2 million in cash.

His countless crimes included murder of 72 migrants in 2010 and massacre of 192 in 2011. The gang’s trademark was to use ice picks to pin warning signs on the chests of the bodies of their victims.

Three years ago the bodies of 72 people, believed to all be migrants, were found at a rural ranch in northern Mexico. The victims were shot by the members of the Zetas cartel known for exploiting vulnerable people

Zetas known for brutal crimes in Mexico, including mass slaughters. His arrest is hailed a boon for President Enrique Pena Nieto.

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Body of 'Ugliest Woman in the World' returns to Mexico for burial more than 150 years after death

Julia Pastrana made headlines and was exploited almost 153 years ago and was labelled as the ugliest woman in the world, for her entire body was covered with hair.

Pastrana was born in Mexico in 1834 and suffered from congenital terminal hypertrichosis, which left her face and body covered in thick hair.

In 1854, she was bought by a Mexican customs administrator and he began exhibiting her through the U.S. and Canada. While in New York, she married Theodore Lent, who became her manager.

Posters exhibiting Julia Pastrana

Even after her death in 1860, her body was exhibited across the world.

Her body eventually ended up in a storage room at an Oslo research institute, and after learning of the body's whereabouts, visual artist Laura Anderson Barbata campaigned to have it returned to Mexico.

Barbata, who lives in New York but hails from Mexico City, eventually won her decade-long battle and on Tuesday, Pastrana's body will finally be buried in Sinaloa de Leyva.

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Bengal tiger Mauls trainer to death in front of audience watching circus in Mexico

This picture is believed to show the trainer Alexander Crispin 'Suarez', who was killed by a tiger during a performance of Circus Suarez in the city of Hermosillo, Mexico

Circuses are to provide pleasure to the audience by circus men , which sometimes may turn out to be deadly.

And this exactly what happened when 35 years old American circus entertainer Alexander Crispin was performing with two Bengal tigers inside the caged ring at Circo Suarez in Sonora state, Mexico.

Furing the performance, one of the beasts lunged forward and pulled him down and started to maul him. Although assistants came in and tried to scare away the animal, it was too late as the American performer, bitten severly in his neck died in the hospital.

A footage posted on YouTube purportedly shows the trainer, American Alexander Crispin circling two tigers during his act for Circo Suarez in Sonora state. The video shows spectators fleeing the circus tent as two workers beat the tiger to free Mr Crispin, who was pinned to the ground.

Watch the video below - but beware of its graphic content.

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Unsual cranial deformed skulls found in Mexico

A recent find of skeletons near the small Mexican village of Onavas shows cranial deformed skulls, believed to be 1,000 years old. The burial ground consists of 25 individuals; 13 have intentional cranial deformation and five also have dental mutilation.

Cranial deformed skulls found in Mexico [Photo credit: INAH]

At the first look, these look like to be skeletons of the aliens with elongated skulls. However scientists are of the view that these skulls have be deliberately been deformed mainly to differentiate different social classes.

The find is believed to be the first in the region showing the practice of binding a skull to change its shape.

'Cranial deformation in Mesoamerican cultures was used to differentiate one social group from another and for ritual purposes,' said archaeologist Cristina Garcia Moreno, director of the research project.

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Team Pakistan wins The Karl Popper Debating Championship

While the world is focused on the London Olympics, young students from Pakistan make a mark in an international debating competition.

The winning Team Pakistan

The fifteen year old students won the final of The Karl Popper Debating Championship (KPDC), which is one of the largest tournaments of its kind, held at Mexico City.

Team Pakistan beat students from South Korea and all three participants were listed amongst the top 10 speakers of the tournament.

The team included Zainab Hameed from Karachi Grammar School who was named the top speaker, while Azeem liaqat from Salamat International Campus for Advanced Studies in Lahore placed second. Pakistan’s third contestant Ahmed Shujaan from Aitchison College Lahore placed fifth.

45 countries and over 200 debaters participated in the tournament.

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More bodies found in Mexico town

At least 23 people have been killed in gruesome circumstances in the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo, on the US border.

Nine bodies with signs of torture were found hanging from a bridge.

Hours later, 14 decapitated bodies were discovered in a vehicle, police said. Their heads were found in ice boxes dumped outside the mayor's office.

Nuevo Laredo is the scene of a feud between two of Mexico's biggest drugs gangs, who are fighting for control of smuggling routes into the US.

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100 Years of Mexico with USA in 100 Photographs

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6 January marks the 100th year of merger of Mexico with the USA. It was January 6, 1912 when Mexico became the 47th state of USA. 

A few of the 100 photos

To commemorate the centennial of the day,   Christopher Reynolds  of the LA Times has pulled together 100 images: napping nomads in Truth or Consequences; a working artist in Santa Fe; a native gathering in Albuquerque; an idle biker in Grants; and a slate-gray sky, about to dump a monsoon on the highway near Hillsboro. 

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26 gagged bodies found in Guadalajara

Full Story: Yahoo News 24 Nov

The bound and gagged bodies of 23 men were found before dawn Thursday in the heart of Guadalajara, Mexico as a result of war between drug cartels. Local media reported the bodies were discovered in Mexico's second city alongside a message from drug cartels.

The bodies were discovered just 500 meters from the auditorium where the Guadalajara International Book Fair is to be held from Saturday.

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16 burned bodies in drug lord's home state in Mexico

Full Story: Yahoo News 24 Nov

16 burned dead bodies have been found  in the home state of the Mexico's most powerful drug lord, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, the attorney general's office of Sinaloa said Wednesday.

Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman

Firefighters discovered the scorched corpses of 11 men and a woman in the back of a truck in a residential street in Culiacan. Later, four other bodies were found just outside Culiacan, but authorities could not confirm this.

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