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US federal agents have uncovered a sophisticated “narco tunnel” equipped with electricity and a working ventilation system that smugglers had been using between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico.
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 ...
Things appeared to return back to normal as the hours-long traffic to go through border checkpoints to the United States were back.
There are several Mexican-folk ballads (narco-corridos) that narrate the Tijuana cartel exploits. A fictional "Tijuana cartel" headed by a character named Obregon was featured battling a fictional "Juarez cartel" in the 2000 motion picture Traffic. The cartel was portrayed as the Avendanos brothers in Univision's Netflix series El Chapo.
Borderland Beat is an English language news blog that reports on the Mexican drug war.The blog was started in 2009 by an anonymous individual using the pseudonym Buggs. Borderland Beat's reporters are mostly based in the U.S. and Mex
On 28 January, army personnel from the Army's 5th special forces battalion and 2nd Motorized Cavalry Regiment succeeded in the arrest of Alfredo Araujo Avila a.k.a. El Popeye in Tijuana. Alfredo Avila is known to be one of the most active assassins from the 1980s to the early 1990s of the Tijuana Cartel in the states of Sinaloa and Baja ...
The Mexican navy announced Friday it had seized more than 8.3 tons of drugs in the Pacific Ocean, a record for a single operation at sea. The illicit cargo was intercepted from six different ...
Peter Navarro, senior trade adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, said Mexico had been "very cooperative" on efforts to crack down on the influx of fentanyl into the U.S., and Canada had started ...