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Early in his term, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador declared that the drug war in Mexico was over. He said his government would focus more on reducing homicides than on capturing ...
(The Center Square) – As Mexican cartel violence has escalated during the Biden administration, the U.S. State Department announced it is increasing a reward for a Mexican drug lord. The U.S ...
Car bombs. Massacres. The slaying of a Roman Catholic priest. A cartel war that has engulfed a major city. A mayor of another large city beheaded after he dared to call for peace. Six weeks after ...
La Familia Michoacana was a major Mexican drug cartel based in Michoacán between at least 2006 and 2011. It was formerly allied to the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas, but split off and became an independent organization. [202] Map of Mexican drug cartels presence in Mexico based on a May 2010 Stratfor report [203] [204]
In the most sensational recent instance, Genaro García Luna, Mexico’s former security chief and the former face of the anti-drug war, was convicted in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn last year ...
Sinaloa Cartel gunmen opened fire on Mexican armed forces with a half-dozen .50-caliber truck-mounted machine guns. The army responded by calling in Blackhawk helicopter gunships to attack a convoy of 25 cartel vehicles, including the gun platforms. Then the cartel gunmen opened fire on the helicopters, forcing two of them down with "a ...
The war between the cartel's "Mayos" and "Chapitos" has left more than 400 people dead and hundreds missing, according to the state prosecutor's office. Hundreds killed in Mexican city since ...
The Sinaloa Cartel under Zambada’s leadership began expanding its drug business into fentanyl manufacturing and distribution by 2012, making millions of dollars each year in corruption payments ...