Mexico: 'Dead' Drug Lord Killed in Shootout

Mexican officials say a powerful drug lord who had been reported killed three years ago was actually killed early Sunday morning in a shootout with marines in western Mexico. Nazario Moreno, a leader of a powerful criminal gang that has ravaged the western state of Michoacan, had been reported killed by the government in a firefight in December 2010. His body was never found but the government of then-President Felipe Calderon officially declared him dead. Since the earlier death...

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