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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.
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.
Things appeared to return back to normal as the hours-long traffic to go through border checkpoints to the United States were back.
Cárteles Unidos (English: United Cartels), also known as La Resistencia (English: The Resistance) is a Mexican criminal enforcer squad composed of well-trained gunmen from the Sinaloa Cartel, Gulf Cartel, La Familia Michoacana, and Knights Templar Cartel originally formed to expel the Los Zetas Cartel from the states of Michoacán and Jalisco.
The Guardian and Los Angeles Times noted that Blog del Narco is a response to Mexico's "narco-censorship", a term used when reporters and editors of the Mexican Drug War, out of fear or caution, are forced to either write what the drug lords demand, or remain silent by not writing anything at all. [12]
Fuerza Regida announced it was canceling an upcoming concert in Tijuana early Monday evening, hours after a handwritten banner with an alleged threat from a cartel was found in the border city.
When the Tijuana Cartel leader Eduardo Arellano Félix was arrested on October 25, 2008, a violent power struggle erupted between Teodoro García and Luis Fernando Sánchez Arellano over the leadership of the Tijuana cartel. [16] [17] Teodoro García left the organization, formed his own gang, and forged an uneasy alliance with the rival ...
The mayor of the violent border city Tijuana in northern Mexico, Montserrat Caballero, has moved into military barracks for her safety after she received threats, the president said on Tuesday.