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Dec 19, 2021 · COVELO, Calif. — Mexican drug cartels are muscling in on America's burgeoning multi-billion-dollar marijuana industry, illegally growing large crops in the hills and valleys of Northern...
- Beth Warren
Feb 10, 2024 · Mexican cartels saw an opportunity and began capitalizing, law enforcement officials said, flooding the U.S. with a super potent form of meth and targeting indigenous communities in particular.
Aug 16, 2022 · Violence in Mexico’s border towns during the weekend significantly cut the usual flood of visitors making the trek from California down to Tijuana, Ensenada and Rosarito. By Tuesday, however ...
- Salvador Hernandez
- Staff Writer
- salvador.hernandez@latimes.com
Aug 28, 2024 · After the arrest last month of two leaders of the Sinaloa drug trafficking organization, The Times’ Kate Linthicum spoke with Zavala about the “kingpin strategy,” which targets cartel chiefs, and...
- kate.linthicum@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
Aug 20, 2022 · A drug cartel hijacked and burned more than a dozen vehicles across Tijuana and killed innocent bystanders in the region during a spree of violence. But can officials reassure a nervous city?
Jul 12, 2023 · (NewsNation) — The sheriff’s department in Riverside County, California, is waging a war on so-called “no-go” zones in the rural desert, where drug cartels are paying cash for land and setting up illegal marijuana farms. Coined by the residents in the area, these zones are run and protected by Mexican and Asian organized crime groups.
May 4, 2021 · A diplomatic row has frozen U.S.-Mexican efforts to target drug cartels. American officials say illicit fentanyl from labs in Mexico is driving a surge in overdose deaths.
