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Two Americans were found dead in their hotel room at the Hotel Ranch Pescadero in Los Cabos Two Americans were found dead in their hotel room at the Hotel Ranch Pescadero in Los Cabos (Picture: GETTY) Two Americans were found dead in a luxury hotel room in Mexico’s scenic Los Cabos region. Paramedics were rushed to the seaside town of El Pescadero in Baja California Sur on Tuesday after two Americans were found dead at their resort. The two American tourists were identified as a man and a woman, both in their mid-30s. They have not yet been named. The...

One of the Sinaloa cartel leaders who launched a struggle for control of the gang following the re-arrest of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was captured Tuesday ... Damaso Lopez, known by the nickname "El Licenciado" — a title for college graduates. Lopez was long considered Guzman's right-hand man and helped him escape from a Mexican prison in 2001. Lopez, 51, is believed to have been locked in a dispute with Guzman's sons for control of the cartel's territories. The head of Mexico's federal detectives' agency, Omar Garcia Harfuch, said Lopez was "one of the main instigators of violence in Sinaloa...