Mexico: Tourist from U.S. murdered by cartel while hiking

Posted on December 1, 2018 • Filed under: Mexico, Tourist Killed

elpasotimes.com / Braxton-Andrew was killed Oct. 28, 2018 two days after he arrived in the mountain mining village of Urique, about 450 miles southwest of Juárez, Chihuahua Attorney General Cesar Peniche Esquivel said.

Peniche said that Braxton-Andrew was on a hike in an area known as La Playita when he reportedly encountered members of a Sinaloa cartel drug-trafficking cell allegedly run by Jose Noriel Portillo Gil, alias “El Chueco,” or “the crooked one.” Urique, about 450 miles southwest of Juárez, Chihuahua Attorney General Cesar Peniche Esquivel said. Read Article

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