2 security consultants, one who worked for U.S., killed in apparent cartel ambush at restaurant in Mexico
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A Mexican security consultant who recently did contract work for the U.S. State Department has been shot and killed in what appears to have been a cartel ambush at a restaurant in Guadalajara.
The brazen killing took place Friday night after 9:00 p.m. as the man, Cรฉsar Guzman, was dining with two fellow instructors with whom he had just completed a security and intelligence training course for police from Jalisco state, according to Arturo Fontes, a retired FBI agent who worked with Guzman.
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