The threat to public security and the rule of law posed by drug cartels has been the defining domestic issue for Mexico's presidents for over a decade. The Mexican people hoped security would improve when they elected an outsider president in late 2018 who promoted a new idea for pacifying ...
Figure 1 (click map to enlarge) shows the distribution of DEA Field Offices. The pie chart for each office shows “the percentage of cases attributed to specific Mexican cartels in an individual DEA office area of responsibility”. “Since 2014, the Arellano-Felix Organization, LCT, and the M...
The spheres of influence of Mexican cartels in the USA Other, Updates to Geo-Mexico 5 Responses » May 192016An unclassified DEA Intelligence Report from a year ago has just resurfaced on my desk. Entitled United States: Areas of Influence of Major Mexican Transnational Criminal Organizations,...
Though most Americans might not realize it, Mexico’s cartels have been almost uniformly weakened. The notoriously fearsome Zetas – ex-special-forces commandos who terrorized the country with mutilations and beheadings – have been crippled by costly turf wars and the arrest of their top leaders...
Mexicolaunched a lawsuit against American gunmakers for their alleged complicity in allowing weapons to cross the border illegally. The suit, lodged in a court in Boston, claims the companies do little to stop their guns falling into the hands of drug cartels. ...
The Public Security Ministry said it had never recorded another seizure of the animals, whicgh are a non-native species in Costa Rica. 20H ago Cabin owner wakes up to find 440-foot cargo ship on his doorstep A massive cargo ship sailed up onto shore just meters from Johan Helberg's house...
Trump blasts Mexico’s Sheinbaum for rejecting offer to send US troops into Mexico to fight cartels Mexico’s president says she rejected Trump’s plan to send US troops across the border US imposes sanctions on a Mexican cartel linked to a drug trafficking and fuel-theft network Experts...
Mexico is a beautiful country with wonderful people who sadly have never had a government worthy of them. The systemic corruption on all levels is now so deep and wide that it is hard to avoid the conclusion that the country has become a narco-state. ...
CARTELS AT WAR: Mexico's Drug-Fueled Violence and the Threat to U.S. National Security Paul...doi:10.1080/09592318.2013.857953Yelena TuzovaU.S. Army CGSCMilitary Review
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