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Received — 23 October 2026 ⏭ El País - English

Tortured and jailed without a conviction: Three innocent men freed in Mexico after 24 years in prison

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By: Andrés Rodríguez
23 October 2026 at 13:58

Ricardo Almanza was 25 when he was arrested. On Thursday, when he walked out of the Preventive Detention Center in the San Mateo Xalpa neighborhood of southern Mexico City, he was 49.

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Jorge Hernández, Ricardo Almanza and Sergio Rodríguez.
Received — 18 October 2026 ⏭ El País - English

Fiber-optic drones and cartel members at the front: Ukraine’s imprint on Mexico’s narco groups

✇El País - English
By: Andrés Rodríguez
18 October 2026 at 05:00

The video released by Al Jazeera lasts just 25 seconds but has once again reignited public debate. The footage shows at least 10 fighters in a forest, “coming back from a mission,” as one of them can be heard saying. The group of soldiers, who are Mexican, Colombian, and Panamanian — as acknowledged by the person filming — is allegedly part of Ukraine’s front line in the war launched by Russia.

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An attack drone in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, in February 2024.
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