Teresa Margolles ist diplomierte Gerichtsmedizinerin - auch in ihrer künstlerischen Arbeit widmet sie sich den Toten, zu ihren Materialien gehören Blut und Körperfette. Im Fridericianum in Kassel hat sie jetzt einen monumentalen Andachtsraum für die Opfer des mexikanischen Drogenkriegs geschaffen.

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When you think of a Mexican drug smuggler, cartel operative or drug baron, what is your mental image?

I imagine a guy with sunglasses and a big Dodge Ram pickup.

Or you might envision somebody out of a Robert Rodriguez movie, like the ruthless character portrayed by Portuguese actor Joaquim de Almeida in “Desperado.”

Nevertheless, all drug traffickers don’t fit the stereotypes. Some of them, in fact, are women.

She resembles a middle class Mexican mother or businesswoman, one you might see any day of the week.

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Around £30,000 was recovered from the house and separate quantities of what appears to be uncut heroin were found in the house and in nearby bushes.

Two men aged 48 and 38 and three women aged 40, 43, and 71 have been arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply class A drugs and money laundering. They remain in custody.

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Officers of southern Drug Control Central Administration arrested the suspects in illegal possession of drugs. The officers seized over 57 kilograms of drugs, according to law enforcement agencies.

Reportedly, as a result of preventive operations officers raided the houses of villagers in Nichke-Sai of Jalal-Abad region and seized hashish, marijuana, cannabis.

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The hit squad drove up about 10 p.m. in a pair of sporty cars, one Italian the other German, and opened fire with AK-47 assault rifles smuggled in from Eastern Europe.

When the dry crack of gunfire went silent, a 16-year-old drug-runner lay mortally wounded and an 11-year-old boy who had gone out with his sister for pizza was bleeding profusely from rounds that slammed into his foot and, after piercing his arm, ripped a hole in his throat.

With that attack on the evening of Nov. 19 in the dark alleys between low-rent public housing blocks at Clos La Rose on the northeastern edge of the city, Marseille's discreet drug wars suddenly went public. Officials said they were aghast to see teenagers being executed and expressed fear that in some neighborhoods drug gangs might be spinning out of control.

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Workers at warehouses just feet from the U.S-Mexico border would come and go at odd hours. Few, if any, knew what their trucks carried.

Few knew, too, that the buildings sat atop the openings for two of the longest, most sophisticated tunnels ever built to smuggle drugs from Mexico to the United States.

"Look over there across the street, I have no idea what they do," said neighbor Mario Rodriguez, 46, pointing to a large warehouse with no trucks outside.

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Border Patrol agents at the Interstate 19 checkpoint near Tubac seized more than 3,750 pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of more than $3 million on Thursday.

According to a Border Patrol news release, Nogales-based agents at the checkpoint used a Non-Intrusive Inspection (NII) system to detect an anomaly in the trailer. A canine team then took a closer look and alerted to a hidden compartment containing the marijuana.

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A Customs and Border Protection Office of Air and Marine helicopter assisted Border Patrol agents assigned to the Weslaco Station Thursday with the seizure of close to 1,200 pounds of marijuana.

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