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After the arrest this week of one of Mexico’s most ruthless drug lords, “La Barbie,” media coverage has highlighted his American-born, football star origins. But...
made popular Sep 4 2010
Mexico’s bloody drug war continued as the Mexican army claims to have killed 27 suspected drug cartel members in a shootout in the state of Tamaulipas.
made popular Sep 4 2010
President Felipe Calderon tried to rally frustrated Mexicans behind his increasingly bloody drug war Thursday, saying he knows violence has surged under his watch, but...
made popular Sep 4 2010
“DANGER—PUBLIC WARNING, TRAVEL NOT RECOMMENDED,” read signs welcoming travelers along a 60-mile stretch of Interstate 8 between Phoenix, Arizona, and San Diego,...
made popular Sep 4 2010
Mexico’s criminal gangs have entered a grisly new phase in their mad scramble to control the border-area smuggling industry. Before, their turf battle seemed...
made popular Sep 4 2010
Mexico’s blood-soaked drug war intensified in northeastern Tamaulipas state over the weekend, with fresh violence attributed to the Zetas, the drug cartel blamed...
made popular Aug 31 2010
Central America is struggling to contain rising violence as powerful Mexican drug cartels, facing an escalating government crackdown at home, expand southward and...
made popular Aug 27 2010
Mexico’s president Felipe Caldéron is the latest Latin leader to call for a debate on drugs legalisation. And in the US, liberals and right-wing libertarians are...
made popular Aug 9 2010
Back in 1970, President Richard Nixon was having a lot of trouble trying to get something (anything!) accomplished in Vietnam. So he decided to wage a war that he...
made popular Jun 14 2010
The President’s all-out war on the syndicates is only one part of his agenda to transform Mexico.
made popular May 31 2010
Mexican President Felipe Calderon asked members of the U.S. Congress to ramp up action to reduce illegal drug use in the United States to help fight the war against...
made popular May 29 2010
Last week the Mexican Army made an important—if not entirely unexpected—discovery in the northern state of Nuevo León: a Zetas cartel hideout complete with a...
made popular May 21 2010
On March 23, 2010, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and Chairman of the Joint...
made popular May 5 2010
After the first five interviews with my brother Police Officer and Detective Howard Wooldridge of Lansing, Michigan (retired) concerning the “War on Drugs”, more...
made popular Apr 20 2010
Federal police have arrested Mexico’s “King of Heroin,” a powerful drug trafficker allegedly responsible for running thousands of pounds of heroin...
made popular Mar 26 2010
Can anyone say the War on Drugs is working? Is it reasonable to think drug trafficking can be terminated while demand runs endlessly? Is it even possible supply and...
made popular Feb 10 2010
Caribbean islands battling drug-fueled crime had one of their bloodiest years on record in 2009, with Jamaica, the Bahamas and Puerto Rico hitting or coming close to...
made popular Jan 2 2010
The streets of Laredo are awash in money, stacks of grimy bills tainted with cocaine residue, wrapped in plastic and stowed in secret compartments built into the...
made popular Dec 29 2009
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Gunmen have killed four relatives of an elite Mexican soldier who died during an operation targeting one of the country’s most-wanted drug lords.
The mother,...
made popular Dec 23 2009
The cartel kingpin ‘Boss of Bosses’ has officially been fired. After an intense movie-like two hour stand off Arturo ‘El Barbas’ Beltran Leyva...
made popular Dec 21 2009
At first, Luis F. Alarid seemed well on his way to becoming a customs agency success story. He had risen from a childhood of poverty and foster homes, some of them...
made popular Dec 18 2009
Colombia’s fight against drug trafficking is failing and needs new proposals and UN guidance, declared former Colombian Foreign Minister Rodrigo Pardo...
made popular Nov 19 2009
Reporting from Culiacan, Mexico - In the story making the rounds here in Mexico’s drug capital, the setting is a beauty parlor. A woman with wealth obtained...
made popular Nov 10 2009
The growing number of police killings of suspected criminals in Rio de Janeiro’s war on drugs is linked to bonuses now paid to “brave” police...
made popular Nov 10 2009
The number of minors swept up in Mexico’s drug wars — as killers and victims — is soaring, with U.S. and Mexican officials warning that a toxic...
made popular Nov 3 2009
Finally U.S. politicians have understood that the War on Drugs and by extension Plan Colombia has failed. As it was to be expected the Colombian government swiftly...
made popular Oct 22 2009
The murder rate in Ciudad Juarez on the Mexico-US border has reached an all-time high amid battles between rival drug cartels, Mexican officials say.
Up to...
made popular Oct 22 2009
Look people, we’re not idiots. But we come pretty close. And it’s disturbing how many people in this country still believe in the fried egg theory of drug...
made popular Sep 29 2009
All I can say is Mexico can easily clear their national debts now.
Clearly, crime pays.
$207 million recovered.
Note: This story is old but look at the cash.
The...
made popular Sep 10 2009
A surge in drug-related violence the last 24 hours has seen at least 40 people killed in the troubled northern border region and President Felipe Calderon’s home...
made popular Sep 3 2009
You don’t know how long I’ve been trying to get in touch with you. I know I kind of wander in and out of Church, and I’ll be the first to admit...
made popular Aug 24 2009
Here’s a dubious honor belonging to the United States: the world’s largest prison population.
The United States imprisons more people than any other...
made popular Aug 5 2009
There are currently over 45,000 armed troops pounding the streets of our nation. U.S. and Mexican government officials say the military strategy, while difficult, is...
made popular Jul 29 2009
Close to a black cross where Mexican drug cartels used to place the severed heads of their rivals, and near the site where the mutilated bodies of 12 police officers...
made popular Jul 27 2009
GUATEMALA CITY - Guatemalan drug boss Juan Jose “Juancho” Leon was summoned by Mexican traffickers for what he was told was business. Instead, dozens of...
made popular Jul 22 2009
Reporting from Altar, Mexico — On a cloudless afternoon in northern Sonora, migrants and drug runners lounge in equal numbers under scattered mesquite trees,...
made popular Jul 21 2009
A massive army surge has failed to calm raging drug gang violence in Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican city on the U.S. border that is at the heart of President Felipe...
made popular Jul 9 2009
“The PRI comes back” shouted the front page headline of the daily newspaper El Universal on Monday, the day after the political party known as the PRI swept midterm...
made popular Jul 7 2009
The candidacy of Mario Anguiano, running for governor in a state election here Sunday, says a lot about Mexican politics amid the rise of the drug cartels.
A brother...
made popular Jul 4 2009
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