Sandoval, Ricardo
Mexico's fastest-rising cartel, the Jalisco New Generation gang, has a reputation for ruthlessness and violence unlike any since the fall of the old Zetas cartel. In parts of the country it is fighting medieval-style battles, complete with fortified redoubts, to expand nationwide, ...
Instead of fighting against his opposition, he formed a coalition between the heads of all the ranking criminal families in Columbia, and set out to assemble the Medellin Cartel. This cartel would eventually go on to control over 80% of the cocaine shipped to the U.S. at its peak. He ...
President Claudia Sheinbaum's predecessor and political mentor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador severely curtailed Mexican cooperation with the DEA to protest undercover US operations in Mexico targeting senior political and military officials. 'The Lord of The Skies'...
Some of the messages also accused the police chief of protecting another group, “New Generation,” allied to powerful Sinaloa drug cartel of fugitive billionaire Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Article content According to the mayor, the threats only showed how concerned the drug gangs were in the...
CNN aired a segment of Rubido’s Saturday news conference in which he offers details of the escape. NBC, ABC and Fox News are among the U.S. media covering the story. Guzman is leader of the Sinaloa cartel, Mexico’s most powerful drug organization. He was arrested in February 2014 on...
A massive manhunt is now underway, but this is not El Chapo’s first escape. The head of the Sinaloa cartel, which the U.S. Justice Department describes as “one of the world’s most prolific, violent and powerful drug cartels,” busted out of Jalisco’s Puente Grande prison in 2001 ...
The arrest came just over a year after the capture of Mexico's most notorious drug lord, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, head of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the most powerful drug smuggling gangs in the world. It also comes as Mr Pena Nieto seeks to quell outrage over violence, impunity and co...
The Mexican Mafia, or "La Eme," is a powerful force on both the streets of southern California and in the state's prison system. Its name is the result of its members' ethnic identity; the group did not originate in Mexico. Connected to the original founders of the syndicate,Peter Ojeda...
VERACRUZ, Mexico (CNN)-- The dead always tell a story. And in Mexico that story is the fight for the right to meet U.S. demand for illegal drugs -- a war becoming more violent and ruthless, mostly because of one group. Suspected members of Los Zetas drug cartel are presented to repo...