relative to other active TCOs in the same geographic territory. The map includes population density shading which “is intended to depict potential high density drug markets that TCOs will look to exploit through the street-level drug distribution activities of urban organized...
The following analysis is part of Global Guardian's 2023 Risk Assessment Map. To explore and download the map, click here. IMPACT The drug war in Mexico is one of the most violent conflicts on the planet with cartel activity permeating through many levels of the Mexican economy and society....
The cartels control the newspapers in the region and discourage media coverage of drug-related violence. Yolanda Figueroa wrote a book that connected the Gulf Cartel to the family of former Mexican President Carlos Salinas, and was murdered along with her husband and children not long thereafter....
Soon after its creation, Cahill’s butterfly map was used to illustrate aflying trip around the world, orcircumaviation, proposed for thePanama Pacific International Expositionheld in San Francisco in 1915. The map was exhibited at this exposition and won a gold medal for cartography. Some time...
If you wonder how the Mexican cartel can be so brazen, remember thattheU.S. Border Patrolactually provided armed securityfor a drug cartel wedding. Their tentacles run deep, especially on their home turf. platysays: January 6, 2023 at 3:46 am ...
TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Drug cartel turf battles cut off a series of towns in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas, near the Guatemala border, Mexico’s president acknowledged Monday. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that the cartels have cut of...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A drug cartel in central Mexico has kidnapped 14 local residents, including four children, in apparent retaliation for an uprising by angry farmers earlier this month that killed 10 cartel gunmen, officials said. Farmers in the village of Texcaltitlan and a neighboring ha...
Mexico's homicide rate has tripled since 2006 — when an intensification of the government's war on drug cartels triggered a spiral of violence — from 9.6 murders per 100,000 inhabitants to 28 in 2021. Dog mutilated by cartel members may be "America's Favorite Pet" ...
According to local press, Gonzalez was arrested at the border town of Reynosa, one of the towns most affected by the ongoing conflict between the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas. The two factions have been in a bloody conflict over the control of drug trafficking for several years. ...
A first-ever study targeting the exorbitant wealth of Mexico's drug lords shows more than half the money smuggled out of the U.S. each year is cash that never passes through a bank, making it nearly invisible to law enforcement.