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cartels
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Mexico: Cartels Declare Open Season on Candidates
Mexico’s drug cartels appear to have declared open season on any candidate for public office who will not…
May 20, 2015
Mexico’s Notorious ‘Z-42’ Busted
Mexican authorities on March 4 announced the capture of Omar Treviño AKA “Z-42”—leader of Los Zetas, the ultra-violent narco-paramilitary…
March 6, 2015
Latin America’s Cartels Build Their Own Arms Industry
New evidence emerged this week that Mexico’s warring cartels are becoming a real military force and underground parallel…
February 26, 2015
Mexico Cracks Down on Narco-Oil
In an open acknowledgement that it cannot secure its pipeline system from plunder by criminal gangs, Mexico’s state…
February 24, 2015
US Legalization Initiatives Impact Mexican Cartels
Is the relieved pressure on cannabis in the United States undermining the Mexican cartels, as we’d long hoped? There…
February 18, 2015
Legal Marijuana Screwing the Mexican Cartels
Perhaps the biggest argument for the legalization of marijuana in the United States is by allowing a taxed…
December 3, 2014