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Map of Mexican cartels' drug traffic routes in Mexico based on a 2012 Stratfor report The U.S. State Department estimates that 90 percent of cocaine entering the United States is produced in Colombia [ 117 ] (followed by Bolivia and Peru ) [ 118 ] and that the main transit route is through Mexico. [ 36 ]
Port of Entry United States Road/Highway City and State Mexican Port of Entry Mexican Road/Highway City and State Status Otay Mesa East: SR 11 Toll: East Otay Mesa, California: Mesa de Otay II: Tijuana, Baja California: This is expected to be the first toll-based border crossing on the US-Mexico border. It is planned to open in 2024. [3]
Operation Quintana Roo (Spanish:Operacion Quintana Roo) is an anti-drug trafficking military operation jointly conducted by the Mexican army and navy in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. The operation began in early February 2009 after the death of former Brigadier General Mauro Enrique Tello Quiñónez and two other men.
The military controls the Mexico City airport, customs points of entry, the northern and the southern border. They have a very ubiquitous presence in Mexican politics. The process of ...
Current and ex-U.S. officials say the relationship between War allies Mexico and the U.S. has ... in what used to be called the drug war — at the precise moment when joint action is most needed ...
The Beltrán Leyva Organization (BLO), also known as the Beltrán Leyva Cartel [2] (Spanish: Cártel de los Beltrán Leyva, [3] pronounced [ˈkaɾtel ðe los βelˈtɾan ˈlejβa], CBL), [4] was a Mexican drug cartel and organized crime syndicate, formerly headed by the five Beltrán Leyva brothers: Marcos Arturo, Carlos, Alfredo, Mario Alberto, and Héctor.
Mexico's army appears to be raiding only a handful of active drug labs every month, despite U.S. pressure to crack down on fentanyl trafficking, with facilities that were already out of use ...
March 23 - Mexican authorities publish a List of Mexico's 37 most-wanted drug lords; March 25 – A Mexican Special Forces Unit captures one of Mexico's most-wanted drug smugglers, Héctor Huerta Ríos. [81] March 26 – A US Marshal, Vincent Bustamante who was the subject of an arrest warrant, is found dead in Ciudad Juárez. [82]