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The Guatemalan drug traffickers are alleged to have trafficked drugs into Mexico with the help of notorious Mexican cartels.
Police officers conduct an operation in the deserts of Sonora, Mexico, on April 15, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times
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A man killed by Mexican authorities was identified as one of 13 Guatemalan nationals believed to be part of a cocaine trafficking organization based along the Guatemala-Mexico border, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California said on June 16.
Baldemar Calderon-Carrillo, known as “Don Valde,” was killed in a shootout with Mexican state police on June 8. He was the lead defendant in a May 2019 indictment by U.S. prosecutors.
