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Armed men kidnap 27 people in Mexico
November 12, 2008
Armed men kidnapped 27 farm workers on property owned by a suspected member of the Ciudad Juarez drug cartel, local state authorities said late Tuesday.The men stormed the farm of La Guajira, in the municipality of Culiacan, officials in the north-western state of Sinaloa said in a statement. The 27 people kidnapped are "agricultural workers," the statement read. The property owner allegedly has family ties to Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, a drug lord known as 'The Viceroy' and a member of the Carrillo Fuentes clan that heads the powerful Ciudad Juarez drug cartel on the US border with Mexico, the statement read.
