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One of Mexico’s most powerful crime groups, the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación – CJNG), is employing forced disappearance and corruption in its efforts to build up a burgeoning local drug market on its home turf of Guadalajara.
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