MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Drug gangs in remote Guatemala kill 27, beheading most
By artappraiser on Mon, 05/16/2011 - 1:08am |By Tim Johnson, McClatchy Newspapers, May 15, 2011
MEXICO CITY — In the worst drug-related violence in modern times in Guatemala, assailants stormed a remote jungle ranch and killed 27 people, beheading 25 of them, an army spokesman said Sunday.
As spotter planes flew overhead, Guatemalan soldiers raced along jungle tracks to cut off a nearby border crossing into Mexico to prevent the assailants from fleeing, army Col. Rony Urizar said.
News reports in Guatemala said the Los Cocos ranch in a lawless part of the Peten region belonged to the brother of one of the nation's most widely known drug bosses.
The assailants, moving in several vehicles....
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