drug cartel-related murders topped 2,100 last year, nearly double the average over the previous five years, and the problem is spilling over the border with the US, which asserts that 90 percent of drugs coming from Latin America enter through Mexico.The more than 17,000 federal troops and...
The Drug Enforcement Agency has estimated a kilogram of fentanyl priced at roughly $5,000 can yield $1.5 million in profits when pressed into counterfeit pills, cut into heroin or sold on the street. The profit potential has attracted Mexican drug cartels who represent "the most ...
Drug cartels’ turf war in Mexico’s Chiapas state sends villagers fleeing to Guatemala Aug. 22, 2024 “It exacerbates the problem of corruption because judges will be catering to special interests,” said Amrit Singh, a professor at Stanford Law School. ...
Moscow can no more lose the war with Ukraine than Washington could lose a war with Mexico. MORE… Congress Negotiating Fake “Anti-China” Legislation that Advances Leftist Agenda While the Deep State is distracting Americans with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it is pushing a major so-called ...
rojo; they live in a largely lawless state where a drug cartel, corrupt politician or powerful businessman can order such a murder with impunity. “it’s like it is in every case, here in mexico and everywhere else in the world,” said jiménez. “governments always tend to conquer...
The government pays AT&T to place its employees in drug-fighting units around the country. Those employees sit alongside Drug Enforcement Administration agents and local detectives and supply them with the phone data from as far back as 1987. The project comes to light at a time of vigorous pub...
Interestingly, when Mark Reckless, the ancestrally Irish MP for Rochester, raised the idea with the Europe Minister David Lidington at a parliamentary committee meeting yesterday, the response was friendly. Christopher M. Quigley / IrishCentral.com–Why Ireland should join dollar or sterling currency ...
Since then some 45,000 people have died in the drug war. The level of violence and death without warning has spurred the spread of the Santa Muerte religion in Mexico and beyond. Santa Muerte, in turn, spurs the narcos to become more and more violent. The worshippers of Santa Muerte are...
However, it is hard to escape mercantilism. For example, after the war, barriers to trade were still used to protect locally entrenched industries. The United States adopted a protectionist trade policy toward Japan and negotiated voluntary export restrictions with the Japanese government, which limite...
We estimate the impact of cartel organizational features, as well as macroeconomic fluctuations and industry structure, on cartel duration using a dataset of contemporary international cartels. We estimate a proportional hazards model with competing risks, distinguishing factors which increase the risk of ...