A man killed by Mexican authorities was identified as one of 13 Guatemalan nationals believed to be part of a cocaine trafficking organization based along the Guatemala-Mexico border, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California said on June 16.
Baldemar Calderon-Carrillo, known as “Don Valde,” was killed in a shootout with Mexican state police on June 8. He was the lead defendant in a May 2019 indictment by U.S. prosecutors.
U.S. agents are still investigating the details of 67-year-old Calderon-Carrillo’s death, of which videos taken by bystanders have been circulating in Latin American news outlets and social media….