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The US’s top military-intelligence official described how the war on Mexico’s cartels has produced even more violence
The US’s top military-intelligence official described how the war on Mexico’s cartels has produced even more violence NOW WATCH: The wives of El Chapo’s henchmen reveal how they hid and spent $ 2 billion See Also: The top 20 presidents in US history, according to historians 10 up-and-coming healthy fast food chains that should scare […]
Mexico’s cartels are ditching drugs for oil
Mexico’s energy reform that ended a state monopoly has so far fared fairly well in the upstream sector, with oil majors snatching up offshore oil blocks in auctions. Read more In the downstream, however, aging refineries built before 1980 have been bleeding cash for years and made Mexico import increasing volumes of refined products to […]
Mexican drug cartels are targeting a multibillion-dollar industry
Thomson Reuters SALAMANCA, Mexico (Reuters) – The first call, from someone claiming to belong to the Michoacan Family drug cartel, came in February 2015. “They said they knew who I was and where I lived,” said Alberto Arredondo, who got the call at work as a pump technician at an oil refinery in the central […]
Brazil captured an alleged member of one Mexico’s most powerful drug cartels on his Christmas vacation
Brasil Patriotas TV/Noticieros Televisa Jose Gonzalez Valencia was arrested at a resort area near Fortaleza in northeastern Brazil. Gonzalez Valencia is believed to be a leader of the powerful Jalisco New Generation cartel and is wanted by the US government. The CJNG is one of Mexico’s most powerful criminal organizations. Brazilian police have arrested an […]
‘Ozark’ Trailer: Jason Bateman Launders the Cartel’s Drug Money in Netflix’s New Drama
I thought the teaser trailer for Jason Bateman and Laura Linney‘s dark new Netflix thriller Ozark looked intriguing, but I hadn’t seen anything yet. The streaming service has released a full trailer and this show is giving off some serious Breaking Bad vibes: a money launderer for the cartel gets in over his head, moves out of […]
Cartels are growing marijuana illegally in California — and there’s a war brewing
Morgan Heim, bioGraphic In the gray half-light of dawn, eight figures creep through the dry pine forest near Quincy, California. Seven of them wear camo uniforms bearing the logos of various government agencies: U.S. Forest Service, National Guard, California Fish & Wildlife, Plumas County Sheriff. Most have blackened faces and assault rifles at the ready. […]
‘Like a block of cheese with holes in it’ — How Mexican cartels will subvert and avoid Trump’s border wall
REUTERS/US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)/Handout “We will build a great wall along the southern border,” President Donald Trump said this summer, months prior to his election. Since he took office in January, Trump, along with his Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, have moved forward with plans to construct that southern barrier. “The wall will be built […]
After a decade fighting the cartels, Mexico may be looking for a way to get its military off the streets
AP Photo/Guillermo Arias In December 2006, just after taking office, Mexican president Felipe Calderon deployed Mexico’s military to the cities and countryside to take on the country’s drug trade. It was not the first time Mexico’s military had been sent out to fight narcos, but Calderon’s escalation — from 20,000 soldiers deployed around the country […]
