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Joaquín Guzmán Loera

How do you capture a drug kingpin without firing a shot?

Global Scan

Over the weekend, US and Mexican officials teamed up to capture one of the Mexico’s most notorious drug kingpins, El Chapo of the Sinaloa cartel. And they did it without firing a single shot. Meanwhile, all the gunfire and violence in Ukraine finally forced its president from power and into hiding, but his time is running out. That and more, in today’s Global Scan.

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