Mexican Drug War
Hollywood actors make lots of money pretending to be other people. But movie star Sean Penn has become part of a news story himself. In a bizarre truth-is-stranger-than-fiction scenario, Sean Penn involved himself with – and he may have inadvertently led to the capture of – Mexican drug lord Chapo Guzman. For the entire article, […]
On July 11th, 2015, Mexican drug baron Joaquin “el Chapo” Guzman escaped from prison in a mile-long tunnel specially constructed for his escape. The question is, where is Chapo now? With his vast wealth and extensive connections, Chapo could be anywhere. The DEA thinks Chapo is back in his home state of Sinaloa. And it […]
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I write from Mexico, where I’m currently visiting, and the Mexican media still has an obsession with Donald Trump. It’s a little strange when you think about it. After all, Donald Trump is a candidate for president, who hasn’t even won his party’s nomination, which is still a ways off. And besides, why should Mexicans […]
Just five days after the capture of Servando Gomez Martinez, the leader of southern Michoacan state’s Caballeros Templarios, Mexican authorities captured another big narco boss, Alejandro “Omar” Treviño Morales, known as Z-42, leader of the infamous Zetas cartel. Treviño was captured by Mexican federal police and Mexican Army soldiers on March 4th, 2015 in San Pedro […]
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Servando Gomez Martinez, also known as “La Tuta,” was captured by Mexican federal police on February 27th, 2015, in Michoacan’s capital city Morelia, with no shots being fired. Agents had been gathering intelligence on Gomez for months. Gomez was the leader of a cult-like drug cartel, based in Michoacan state in southern Mexico, called Los Caballeros Templarios […]
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Iguala is in the news for the recent atrocity, the massacre of students and disappearance and possible massacre of 43 others. However, it’s not only Iguala, the state of Guerrero is a violent state. As for Mexico in general, the crime statistics are studied to see where the trends are going. Apparently, trends aren’t […]
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Within a period of eight days, Mexican authorities nabbed two notorious narco barons who had been at large for years: Hector Beltran Leyva of the Beltran Leyva Cartel, and Vicente Carrillo Fuentes of the Juarez Cartel. Both of these men headed cartels which are less powerful than they once were, but nevertheless are still part […]
The Mexican NGO called the Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y Justicia Penal A.C. (Citizen Council for Public Security and Penal Justice), whose president is Jose Antonio Ortega Sanchez, released a list of the world’s 50 most violent cities in 2013. Mexico had nine cities on the list. For the entire article, click here. […]
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The world’s most wanted man, Joaquin “el Chapo” Guzman, co-leader of the mighty Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel, was captured by Mexican marines on the morning of February 22nd, 2014, in Mazatlan, on Mexico’s Pacific Coast. Since then, all sorts of details and speculations have been published. For the entire article, click here . Article by […]
During the morning of February 22nd, Joaquin “el Chapo” Guzman was captured in Mazatlan, on Mexico’s Pacific coast. Guzman was the world’s most wanted man, #1 on the Forbes Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, with bounties on his head offered by both the U.S. and Mexican governments. Besides being #1 on the Forbes list of […]