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May 11, 2022 · According to the CIDE map, the Sinaloa cartel and the Jalisco New Generation cartel have the greatest power in Mexico. The Sinaloa cartel has been operating for 40 years without its main leader...
- Elena Reina
- The Enemy Within
- A Brief History of The Mexican Drug War
- AMLO and The Narcos
- Another Year at War
The ability of Mexico’s cartels to maintain a brutal level of violence against rivals, law enforcement and anyone else who gets in the way has few international comparisons. However, Vanda Felbab-Brown, an expert in international criminal violence at the US-based Brookings Institute, did venture one. ‘Over the last 15 years, the operational tempo o...
The 2,000 mile border which separates Mexico and the US is simultaneously the biggest boundary and the biggest opportunity in the global drug trade. Early traffickers who knew how to transport cargo across this line on the map became a crucial part of the network transporting drugs from South America into their primary market. For 70 years, Mexican...
Andrés Manuel López Obrador – commonly known by his initials – swept to power on a wave of economic populism in 2018, promising to end the drug war. To his supporters, he is a charismatic reformer in touch with the people. To his critics, he is Mexico’s answer to Trump, a blossoming autocrat who tells people what they want to hear and hoards power....
In the face of this conflicted response, the main inter-cartel war continues and countless local conflicts play out around the country. There can be no ‘peace talks’ with criminal groups – so who can stop the killing? Felbab Brown said: ‘AMLO has a preference that the criminal groups will sort it out among themselves but they don’t have the capacit...
Aug 5, 2024 · Mexican drug cartels are leading suppliers of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and other illicit narcotics to the United States. The cartels and the drug trade fuel rampant corruption and violence...
Aug 31, 2022 · ‘Absolute Warfare’: Cartels Terrorize Mexico as Security Forces Fall Short - The New York Times. The president disbanded the Federal Police and created the National Guard to tackle soaring...
Feb 16, 2022 · An inside look at Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel. Since 2018, Eduardo Giralt Brun has been trying to understand the psyche of the foot soldiers in the criminal group. His work has led to two...
Sep 20, 2018 · Mexican prosecutors have finally won convictions against 11 drug cartel gunmen for the massacre of 122 people who were pulled off passing buses and forced to fight each other to the death with sledgehammers.
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Sep 21, 2023 · By forcing their way into more and more sectors, organized crime has become ‘a dominant economic cartel,’ according to analysts. A police officer guards chicken stalls in Chilpancingo (Guerrero),...
