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Mexico's Claudia Sheinbaum Says Previous Administrations Helped Fuel Cartel Violence: 'The War on Drugs Failed'

President Sheinbaum stressed that violence should not be answered with more violence and said that actions must remain within the law.

Latin Times

Former Mexican Government Official & His Wife Fined $2.4 Billion in the U.S.

The ruling was handed down to Genaro García Luna and his wife, Linda Cristina Pereyra, for an illegal contracting scheme within the Mexican government.

Latin Times

Trump’s war with cartels will backfire

Calling drug cartels “terrorists” is a failure to understand how the drug war really works

Salon

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Nine Former Presidents Will Join Venezuelan Opposition Leader in His Attempt to Remove Maduro And Assume the Presidency

The group includes former presidents Andrés Pastrana of Colombia, Felipe Calderón of Mexico and Jorge Quiroga of Bolivia

Latin Times

Almost 10 Thousand People Have Been Displaced Due to Cartel-Related Violence in Mexico in 2024

More than 392,000 people have had to leave their homes due to cartel-related violence between 2008 and 2023

Latin Times

Former Top Police Officer Suspected of Having Links to Sinaloa Cartel Found Dead in Culiacán

Gerardo Mérida Sánchez, Sinaloa's secretary of public security, said authorities will open an investigation due to the high profile of the victim

Latin Times

Former Mexican Top Security Official Sentenced to More Than 38 Years in Prison For Cartel Bribes

Prosecutors say that García Luna provided intelligence about investigations against the cartel, information about rivals and the safe passage of drug shipments

Latin Times

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Mexico's Former Security Chief Faces Life Sentence For Drug Trafficking

Former Mexican security chief García Luna faces life sentence for aiding drug traffickers. Revelations of bribery and ties to Sinaloa cartel emerge.

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Mexico's former public security chief set to be sentenced in US drug case

Mexico’s former public security chief is set to be sentenced in a U.S. court after being convicted of taking bribes to aid drug traffickers

The Independent UK

In His Final Act as Mexico's President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador Deepens The Military's Power

The new law now fully places the National Guard and its 120,000 troops under the command of the Defense Ministry

Latin Times

AMLO questions U.S. judiciary for postponed sentencing of convicted ex-security chief Genaro García Luna

"They're starting to resemble the judges we have here (Mexico), who shelve or store away cases", said the Mexican president

Latin Times

Is Mexico City’s plummeting murder rate too good to be true?

Growing number of missing people prompts questions about homicide statistics

The Guardian - US

Argentina’s far-right Milei angers Falklands veterans with Thatcher praise

Presidential candidate calls former UK prime minister one of ‘the great leaders in the history of humanity’ during debate

The Guardian - US

Mexican cartels are fifth-largest employers in the country, study finds

Organized crime groups have about 175,000 members and authors say the best way to reduce violence is to cut membership

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Mexico vigilante leader’s killing highlights failure to curb violence

Hipólito Mora’s death in a hail of bullets is just the latest murder as the country’s brutal crime conflict shows no sign of abating

France 24

Former Mexican minister convicted in US of drug trafficking

A former Mexican presidential cabinet member was convicted in the US on Tuesday of taking massive bribes to protect the violent drug cartels he was tasked with combating.

Evening Standard

Genaro García Luna: Mexico’s ex-security minister convicted of bribes and drug smuggling

Prosecutors say El Chapo’s cartel couldn’t have built a “global cocaine empire” without García Luna

The Independent UK

Mexico’s ex-public security chief convicted in US drug case

A U.S. jury has convicted a former Mexican presidential cabinet member of taking massive bribes to protect the drug cartels he was tasked with combating

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The Guardian - US

Mexican ex-security chief on trial: multimillion bribe claims and a cat named cocaine

Cartel operators, ex-police and a former government official have testified against Genaro García Luna with allegations of cash drops and kidnappings

Foreign Policy

Mexico’s Government Is on Trial in New York

A former Mexican security official’s corruption charges reveal the hidden politics of the drug trade.

The Independent UK

US drug trial opens for Mexico ex-security head

Genaro García Luna goes on trial on charges of helping the Sinaloa Cartel traffic drugs and protect them from capture while he was serving as Mexico’s top security official

The Guardian - US

Ex-Mexico security chief’s trial poised to lift lid on US and Mexico’s ‘war on drugs’

Genaro García Luna, accused of accepting millions in bribes from cartels, in trial that could implicate officials on both sides of border

The Guardian - US

Twenty-four hours of terror as cartel violence engulfs Mexican city

At least 29 people killed in Culiacán as drug cartel gunmen fight bloody battle to stop transport of El Chapo’s son after arrest

The Guardian - US

As Mexico’s epidemic of violence rages on, authorities seem powerless to stop it

With more than 26,000 murders this year, it is clear the president’s strategy of using the military to control the crime gangs has failed

The Guardian - US

Amlo promised to take Mexico’s army off the streets – but he made it more powerful

Soon after taking office, Andrés Manuel López Obrador created a new force, the national guard – and handed control of it over to the army

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