Social media users who denounce drug cartel activities along the Mexican border received a brutal warning this week: Two mangled bodies hanging like cuts of meat from a pedestrian bridge.

社会媒体的用户谴责墨西哥边境贩毒集团的活动，他们本周收到一个残酷的警告：两个被乱砍的尸体像肉块那样悬挂在一座步行桥上。

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Signs left near the bodies declared the pair, both apparently in their early 20s, were killed for Posting denouncements of drug cartel activities on a social network.

在尸体附近留下的布告宣称，两人显然在20岁出头，由于在一个社交网络上公开抨击贩毒集团活动而遭到了杀害。

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Five suspected members of the Zetas drug cartel in Mexico have been arrested in connection with an arson attack on a casino last week which killed 52 people.

墨西哥贩毒组织泽塔斯五名嫌疑分子因与上周造成52人死亡的赌场纵火案有关而被捕。

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FBI Director Robert Mueller said the drug cartel has transformed itself into what he called a sophisticated criminal organization.

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The target of the combined federal, state and local law enforcement effort is the notorious Mexican cartel known as La Familia, a major supplier of cocaine and methamphetamine to drug dealers in the U.S.

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Pacino and De Palma originally worked together on 1983's Scarface - a remake of a 1930s film - which saw Pacino portray a Cuban refugee who becomes a drug cartel kingpin in the US before his life gradually unravels.

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Mexican president Felipe Calderon says plans by a notorious drug cartel for an extravagant party led to the killing of its leader.

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The indictment says one of the accused approached a US informant, who was posing as a member of a Mexican drug cartel, to carry out the assassination.

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