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Drug Cartels
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Drug Kingpin, Said to Be El Chapo’s Godson, Captured at Calexico
A 29-year-old man believed to be the godson of Mexican narco lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán was indicted…
August 8, 2017
Nightmarish Narco-Violence in Chihuahua
An armed clash in the early hours of July 5 in a mountain village in Mexico’s border state…
July 6, 2017
Reynosa Shoot-Outs: Death Throes of Gulf Cartel?
Mexico’s northeastern border state of Tamaulipas—just across from Texas’ Gulf Coast—has, for years, been engulfed in an under-reported…
May 9, 2017
New Documentary Goes Inside El Chapo’s Sinaloa Drug Cartel
The staggering death toll in Mexico’s drug war has outpaced the number of civilian deaths in Iraq and…
March 10, 2017
Did A Vice Editor Recruit Interns As Drug Mules?
According to Canada’s National Post, a former editor with Vice Media used his position at the high-octane media…
February 6, 2017
Mexico Catches Sinaloa Cartel Operator in Guerrero State
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican prosecutors say they have caught a leading opium trafficker for the Sinaloa cartel…
November 30, 2016
Mexico: Massive March Against Narco-State
On Nov. 20, the anniversary of Mexico’s 1910 revolution, tens of thousands of protesters filled the streets of…
November 21, 2014
The Cartels are a Bigger Problem than ISIS
In May of 2012, 49 headless, handless and footless bodies were dumped on the side of the road…
November 6, 2014
Honduras: New Anti-Narco Force Claims Blow Against Sinaloa Cartel
In an operation dubbed “Saturn II,” a unit of the new Honduran National Police elite anti-narco force, the…
October 28, 2014
Mexico Claims Another Blow Against Cartels
Mexico claimed another capture of a long-fugitive cartel kingpin Oct. 9, when Vicente Carrillo Fuentes AKA “El Viceroy”…
October 20, 2014