Soldiers and civilians have been killed in separate incidents in recent months involving 'narco mines' planted in western Mexico.
In one moment, a column of soldiers and military pickups creeps along a dirt road in western Mexico. In the next, a massive explosion sends debris and a body flying. The ground where a soldier stood seconds earlier is a gaping hole, the aftermath of an improvised land mine planted by one of the region’s warring drug cartels. That soldier was killed and four others were injured in the January explosion, which was captured in a grainy video that circulated on social media.
That account squares with Mexican military intelligence records reviewed by The Times that document foreign mercenaries, drone warfare and improvised land mines in the Tierra Caliente. U.S. officials and experts who study Mexico's criminal landscape have tracked similar developments. John P.
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