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The murder of a top operator within a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel is sending shockwaves throughout Mexico.

Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. According to the US Department of Justice, Nestor Isidro Perez Salas "was one of the Sinaloa cartel's lead sicarios, or assassins" and was involved in the "production and sale of fentanyl" in the United States. World News | Mexican Cartel Figure 'El Nini', Once in America's Most Wanted List, Extradited to US.

It’s the big threat. A cheap, white powder — 50 times more powerful than heroin — which kills more than 70,000 people each year in the United States and countless others across the rest of the Western Hemisphere. EL PAÍS, in a long-term investigation that spanned two continents and included interviews with anti-drug czars in the U.S. and China, visited the clandestine laboratories in Sinaloa, where fentanyl is manufactured. In the vicinity of these Mexican labs, addicts serve as guinea pigs for drug traffickers. This newspaper has gathered testimonies about how this lethal substance cro...

Consuelo Loera López was 94 and had been interned in a clinic for the past two weeks

The cartel has been accused of playing a key role in the trafficking of fentanyl across the U.S. southern border