Mass grave probe for Mexico students

Authorities searching for 43 students abducted after clashing with police in September are investigating a mass grave in the town of Cocula. 56 police officers, local officials and gang members have been arrested
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CARTELS

Tijuana

Los Zetas

Sinaloa

Juarez

Gulf

Beltran Leyva

Knights Templar

Jalisco New Generation
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Tijuana

Chihuahua

Ciudad Juarez

Torreon

Mazatlan

PACIFIC OCEAN

Guadalajara

250 miles 400km

Monterrey

MEXICO

GULF OF MEXICO

Tampico

Zacatecas

Veracruz

Mexico City

UNITED STATES

Nuevo Laredo 

Cocula

Acapulco
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Sep 26, Iguala, Guerrero state: Authorities allege that local police shot at protesting students’ buses, leaving six people dead. Remaining 43 students were handed to police in neighbouring town of Cocula. Police then delivered them to Guerreros Unidos drug trafficking gang. Sidronio Casarrubias Salgado (left), leader of gang, arrested October 22
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Bosses of Mexico’s drug cartels recently arrested or killed 

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1. Jan 27: 2014: Knights Templar’s Dionicio Loya Plancarte captured

2. Feb 22: Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán of Sinaloa – Mexico’s most powerful cartel – arrested

3. Mar 9: Knights Templar’s Nazario Moreno González killed

4. Jun 23: Fernando Sánchez Arellano of Tijuana Cartel captured

5. Oct 1: Hector Beltran Leyva,leader of Beltran Leyva Cartel,captured by special forces

6. Oct 9: Vicente Carrillo Fuentes of Juarez Cartel arrested 
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Sources: Stratfor, agency reports

Pictures: Associated Press, FBI, Getty Images

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