Noah Friedman
Waltz, like most of the Republican party, has shown full-throated support for Israel throughout the war in the Middle East, where Israeli forces are fighting against Iranian-backed proxy groups. The Biden administration and Democrats have expressed concern about the high death toll in Gaza, wher...
On Friday March 3, four U.S. citizens werekidnappedafter a brazen attack carried out by multiple gunmen in the northern Mexico border city of Matamoros. On Tuesday, Mexican and U.S. officials said two of the four U.S. citizens were found dead and two are alive. Mexico's security secret...
Judges in Mexico will now be elected to office. The ruling party says this is a way to deal with corrupt judges, but investors fear it could create opportunities for interference by cartels. Foreign companies may also worry about unfair treatment compared to Mexican companies i...
cartels. Mexico claimed gun dealers in the U.S. are the main source of guns used by the cartels, with as many as 597,000 of their firearmstrafficked into Mexicoevery year. Nearly half of all guns recovered at Mexican crime scenes are made by the companies named in the suit, lawyers ...
At 61, Gálvez trails behind the ruling party candidate, Sheinbaum, in the polls. Representing the opposition coalition, Gálvez vows to restore security in Mexico, where approximately 30,000 people are murdered annually due to the deep-rooted influence of criminal gangs, causing severe economic ...
The second night of the RNC was titled "Make America Safe Once Again," and the overarching theme of the night was that immigration was out of control and that undocumented immigrants are streaming through the border from Mexico. Speakers contrasted Trump’s tough-on-immigration policy stances wit...
Reynosa is one of the dangerous cities in Mexico because of ongoing conflicts with gangs. ... Due to ongoing conflict between Gulf Cartels, it is one of the most dangerous places in Mexico with thousands killed annually. Federal police continue crackdown with drug dealers.It's not safe to wa...
Many killings of journalists in recent years in Mexico have been blamed on drug cartels, and journalists in the most violent cities, like Culiacan, often avoid the topic of cartels for their own safety. But in a 2015 interview with MVS radio station after the killing of fellow reporter Humber...
Drug cartels and similar criminal organizations, such as the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico, for example, carry out assassinations, kidnappings, thefts, and extortions to defend their turf against rival gangs and the state military and police. Extremist people’s movements, such as the Naxalite-Maoist ...