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....
25, 2023, at 12:56 p.m. Save More Drug Cartel Turf Battles Cut off Towns in Southern Mexico State of Chiapas, Near Guatemala Border More TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Drug cartel turf battles cut off a series of towns in the southern Mexico state of ...
Updated 10:49 PM GMT+8, December 28, 2023 Share 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...
The article discusses Tom谩s Yarrington, the former governor of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas who allegedly protected the Gulf drug cartel in exchange for money, and examines the Institutional Revolutionary Party's (PRI) claim that the Yarrington investigation is meant to affect the party's ...
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" ...
Reputed Mexico drug cartel figure to stand trialOLGA R. RODRIGUEZ
Prosecutors in northern Sonora state said Friday the cameras had been placed there by "falcons," the name commonly used in Mexico for drug cartel lookouts seeking to keep tabs on the movements of soldiers and police. Army troops removed the devices, and photosposted by prosecutors on social me...
To defeat the drug cartel threat to its sovereignty, the Mexican government must both increase its institutional capacity to enforce the rule of law and provide security while also reducing cartel freedom of maneuver to exploit violence and corruptive influence. To a large degree, the essential ...
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. ...
In September 2014, the 43 students had been traveling to a political demonstration in Mexico City when investigators believe they were kidnapped by the drug cartel in collusion with corrupt police. The exact circumstances of their disappearance are still unknown, but a truth commission set up by...