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In reference to the questions posted, there was a shooting in Imuris, south of Nogales, Sonora, Wednesday morning. The state government, typically, said it involved Sinaloan drug traffickers, even though the two dead gunmen were identified as Sonoran residents.

My sources tell me that the head of the convoy, 12-18 armored trucks and sport utility vehicles, was a guy by the name of "Jabalíes" Villagrana, an enforcer for the Enriquez Parra family. And that he was arrested by police, who deny it ever happened.

If true, it's the same old story as always with this country. I just like to know about it.

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That's what people are saying anyway. Killed yesterday in a gunfight in Guatemala with local narcos that left 11 dead. Lots of heavy machine guns, rocket launchers and Gulf Cartel hitmen, the country's drug czar says.

So far, it doesn't look like the Americans are convinced.

"The only ones who think Chapo was killed in Guatemala are the Guatemalans," one federal source tells me.

Now, Shorty, Latin America's most wanted drug baron, has visited Guatemala before; in fact, it's where he was arrested back in 1993, the incarceration that ended in a public humiliation for Pres. Vicente Fox when he escaped the maximum security prison in Guadalajara.

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I'm working on a few things today that you should find ... interesting, so check back in later tonight. There's lots going on.

Sonoran cops were in a shootout with a group of hitmen at the crossroads of interstates 15 and 2 south of Nogales, this morning. One person I spoke with tells me there were at least 15 armored cars comprising a convoy that kidnapped one man and murdered another. Cops whacked two of the gunmen, and El Imparcial reports that these were hitmen on their way to somewhere else. If they were on Highway 2, the next major town would've been Cananea.

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