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Killing Drug Lords Won't End Mexico's Cartels. Ending the Drug War Might.

The death of El Mencho shows why decades of prohibition enforcement have only strengthened cartels.

Reason

From Sinaloa to El Mencho’s CJNG: Which are Mexico’s most powerful cartels

Mexico's drug war rages as powerful cartels, inspired by Pablo Escobar's model, battle for dominance. The Sinaloa Cartel and the aggressive Jalisco New Generation Cartel lead the charge, controlling vast territories and fueling violence. Older groups like the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas have weakened, leaving a landscape of shifting…

The Times of India

U.S. Says Top Cartel Leader Still Running Operations From High-Security Mexican Prison

Before his 2020 arrest, El Marro, leader of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel, was one of Mexico's most wanted criminals for large-scale fuel theft, or huachicoleo, and for trafficking fuel, oil, and heroin into the United States.

Latin Times

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Gulf Cartel Controls Turf In Southern Texas, Sheriff Claims: 'Contractors And Subcontractors'

Gangs distributing drugs in some areas of southern Texas are now answering to the Gulf Cartel, according to a local sheriff.

Latin Times

Mexican Areas Hit by Devastating Floods Also Struggle With Severe Cartel Violence: Report

Many of the municipalities hit the hardest by devastating floods lie within territories where violent clashes are common, as rival criminal groups continue fighting in the region.

Latin Times

Mexico Investigates 10 Municipalities Over Alleged Ties to Organized Crime

Intelligence agencies, along with federal, military and civil authorities, are currently investigating the alleged involvement of police chiefs and local public officials with criminal groups in the Mexican state of Veracruz.

Latin Times

Mexican Authorities Arrest Alleged Gulf Cartel Leader 'El Fayuka' Linked to Grupo Fugitivo Killings

An alleged member of the Gulf Cartel was arrested in connection with the killing of the members of local music band Grupo Fugitivo

Latin Times

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Nine People Arrested Over Death Of Grupo Fugitivo Members Have Ties With Gulf Cartel, Authorities Say

Authorities confirmed that five bodies found in Tamaulipas belong to the members of Grupo Fugitivo. The nine people arrested in connection with the crime have ties with the Gulf Cartel

Latin Times

Mexican Mayor Rejects Having His Visa Revoked Over Alleged Ties With Cartel

Matamoros Mayor Alberto Granados denied being detained at the border and having his visa revoked over alleged ties with the Gulf Cartel

Latin Times

Former Cartel del Golfo Leader and Cooperating Witness In Case Against 'El Menchito' Dies While In U.S. Custody

"El Pelón" testified against Rubén Oseguera González, son of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes alias "El Mencho," leader of the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación

Latin Times

A look at the 8 Latin American crime groups designated as terrorist organizations by the US

The United States government is formally designating eight Latin American organized crime groups that also operate in the U_S_ to be “foreign terrorist organizations.”

The Independent UK

Drug Lord Known as 'The Friend Killer' Is Deported to Mexico After 14 Years in U.S. Prisons

Ex-Gulf Cartel chief Osiel Cardenas has been taken into custody in Mexico on drug, organized crime and money-laundering charges

Latin Times

$Gulf Cartel Plaza Leader 'El Borrado' Sanctioned by U.S. Treasury for Illegal Fishing and Drug Trafficking$

Gulf Cartel Plaza Leader 'El Borrado' Sanctioned by U.S. Treasury for Illegal Fishing and Drug Trafficking

The cartel "makes millions" in the illicit trade of red snapper and sharks caught in U.S. waters, per official reports.

Latin Times

Former Gulf Cartel leader Osiel Cardenas set to be extradited from U.S. to Mexico

Cardenas was imprisoned for 14 years in the U.S. He faces pending charges in Mexico

Latin Times

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Former Gulf Cartel leader Osiel Cardenas released from U.S. prison after over a decade

Cardenas also created the Zetas, an armed organization that played a key role in violent turf wars that marked Mexico over the past years

Texas Observer

An Unwinnable Drug War

Threats to deploy U.S. troops to Mexico ignore an appalling reality that has already been a disaster for both nations.

France 24

Video shows Mexican cartel with a working AT4 rocket launcher? Here’s what we know

A video widely shared on social media in late May shows a man, wearing a bulletproof vest marked with the logo of a Mexican cartel, carrying a weapon that looks like an AT4 anti-tank rocket launcher. The Russian ambassador to Mexico joined in the debate about the video on Twitter,…

Daily Mirror

Mexico shooting: Gunman walks into teen's birthday party before opening fire killing one

A 15-year-old girl was celebrating her 'coming of age' birthday party in a town north west of Mexico City when a gunman opened fire on the party, killing one and injuring four others

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Cancun murders: 8 bodies found as New York cop warns 'most dangerous time to go to Mexico'

Human remains were discovered over the weekend around ten miles from Cancun's beach and hotel resorts. Cops believe the bodies had been dumped there between one week and two months ago

Daily Mirror

Female Mexican drug Cartel assassins fight in new organised crime 'phenomenon'

Two balaclava-clad women guarding cartel burglars as they thieved motorbikes and hauled them on the back of a getaway truck in Zacatecas, Mexico, show a new emerging crime phenomenon

Daily Mirror

Two siblings in 'danger' after going missing in Mexico weeks after Americans kidnapped

Hugo Yarset Monfort Luna, 9, and Aranza Yosemiti Monfort Luna, 16, were last spotted last Friday in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, with police concerned for their whereabouts

Daily Mirror

Inside Mexico's most brutal cartel Los Zetas who massacred 193 bus passengers

Since their bloody split with the Gulf Cartel, this new group has been in constant war with their parent cartel for control over the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas

Al Jazeera

Former Mexican presidential candidate sentenced to US prison

Tomas Yarrington Ruvalcaba, ex-governor of Tamaulipas, is accused of using $3.5m in bribes to buy property in the US.

Daily Mirror

Thousands of Spring Breakers ignore advice to avoid Mexico after drug cartel kidnappings

Spring Breakers ignored US government warnings in almost every state of Mexico after it was place under a "do not travel" risk after four Americans were kidnapped whilst driving from South Carolina

Daily Mirror

Inside brutal Mexican cartels from hanging bodies from bridges to warped moral code

Many of the Mexican cartels claim to be looking out for the little people but the bodies stack up and vast quantities of illegal drugs continue to flow into the US

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