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[407] During the first 18 months of Calderón's presidency, the Mexican government spent about US$7 billion in the war against drugs. [ citation needed ] In seeking partnership from the United States, Mexican officials point out that the illicit drug trade is a shared problem in need of a shared solution, and remark that most of the financing ...
The Guadalajara Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Guadalajara), also known as The Federation (Spanish: La Federación), was a Mexican drug cartel which was formed in the late 1970s by Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, Rafael Caro Quintero, and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo in order to ship cocaine and marijuana to the United States.
In December 2018, incoming President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pledged to bring down gang-fueled violence and on January 30, 2019, he declared the end of the Mexican war on drugs. [4] but homicides hit a record level in 2019 with 34,600 murders and continued to climb even during the coronavirus lockdown. [3]
Trump's national security adviser, former Rep. Mike Waltz (R–Fla.), introduced a bill in 2023 to authorize war against Mexican cartels—and any other drug trafficker or criminal organization ...
An escalating turf war engulfing much of Mexico's heavily Indigenous Chiapas state has displaced thousands as gangs battle for drug- and gun-trafficking routes. ... Mexican officials in ‘El Mayo ...
Notable criminally-active gangs in Mexico include: 14K Triad; 18th Street Gang, a.k.a. Mara 18; Barrio Azteca, a.k.a. Los Aztecas; Caborca Cartel; Cártel de Tláhuac Cártel del Noreste [1] Fuerza Anti-Unión Guerreros Unidos; Gulf Cartel [2] Grupo Delta [3] [4] Grupo Elite [5] Grupo Guerrero [6] Grupo X [7] Los Balcanes. Grupo Blanco; Los ...
Oswaldo Zavala is a Mexican academic and writer whose provocatively titled 2022 book — "Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in U.S. and Mexican Culture" — argues for a bold reframing ...
Fourteen Mexican drug gang members were killed and eight others were injured in a gun battle in Tijuana near the U.S. border on Saturday, April 26, 2008, that was one of the bloodiest shootouts in the narco-war between the Tijuana Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel.