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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Graig Graziosi

Mexico questions US on whereabouts of notorious drug lord nicknamed ‘La Barbie’

EPA

The Mexican government is requesting information from the US Bureau of Prisons as to why a brutal drug-trafficker’s name has disappeared from a list of inmates in the agency’s custody.

Edgar Valdez Villarreal, who is known as "La Barbie," was sentenced to prison until 2056 after he was convicted for his alleged links to the Sinaloa drug cartel as a hitman, El País reports.

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