Mexican Drug Cartels

Armed commandos try to free leader of Los Zetas

Mexico City, Nov 8 (EFE).- An armed commando group tried to rescue Jaime "El Hummer" Gonzalez Duran, leader of the Los Zetas gang of hired gunmen, when he was being taken to the airport after being nabbed in the town of...

Crime reporter shot dead in north Mexico border city (AFP)

AFP/File – View of an empty street following a wave of violence sowed by the drug cartels' struggle for control … CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AFP) – Armed men shot dead a newspaper crime reporter in Mexico's violent northern border...

Up to the Highest Level: Narco Infiltration in Felipe Calderon's Government

Thursday, November 13, 2008 The animosity between the heads of Federal Attorney General's Office and the Public Security Ministry don't just immobilize the federal government and make its crusade against drug traffickers and...

Drug Cartels Flex Muscle In Southwest

Law enforcement sources tell CBS News Phoenix has become ground zero for an explosion in the number of reported kidnappings and home-invasions involving drug traffickers and criminals with connections to the Mexican drug cartels.

Mexico mass kidnap in spiral of suspected drug crime (AFP)

AFP – Police inspect the vehicle where the coordinator of the state police and another officer were killed … MEXICO CITY (AFP) – Gunmen raided a farm in northwest Mexico this week and abducted 27 workers -- who were still...

Worrying Signs from Border Raids

Last week, the Mexican government carried out a number of operations in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, aimed at Jaime “El Hummer” Gonzalez Duran, one of the original members of the brutal cartel group known as Los Zetas. According to...

America’s Skewed Priorities

America’s obsession with “containing Russia” is endangering the United States’ own security, by the country’s turning a blind eye, among other things, to Mexico’s escalating narco-cartel crisis. Within hours of Barack Obama’s...

21 cops suspected of crime links detained

TIJUANA – Twenty-one city and state police officers suspected of having links to organized crime have been taken into federal custody in Tijuana, Baja California officials announced yesterday. Francisco Blake Mora, Baja...

27 people kidnapped in Mexico

Armed men kidnapped 27 farm workers on property owned by a suspected member of the Ciudad Juarez drug cartel, local state authorities said. The men on Monday stormed the farm of La Guajira, in the municipality of Culiacan,...

ALLEGED SMUGGLER HID MEXICAN CARTEL MONEY

BAY ST. LOUIS -- For a brief time this year, an alleged high-flying drug smuggler cruised the Mississippi Coast, rubbing shoulders with locals but attracting no attention from police as he used banks and storage units to hide...