The pet monkey of a drug gang member – dressed up in a bulletproof vest and camouflaged jacket – has been killed in a bloody shootout which also left 11 other cartel members dead. Its owner ...

The monkey also "slapped" a man before the man shot the monkey dead, the woman said. "It ran up my back and jumped onto my head, pulled hair out, and then ripped my ear in half," she said.

Yet one provoked a social media frenzy: the monkey’s body, clad with his tiny vest, lying on top of a dead man’s chest in an apparent hug. For some, it was the contrast of a cute monkey decked ...

In typical Mexican tradition, the deceased monkey received its own “corrida,” a folk ballad often composed in honour of dead drug cartel members, which said: “Life is very short, it wasn’t ...