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- An increasing number of women are becoming part of Mexico’s cartels and criminal groups, according to a new report by the International Crisis Group, bolstering the violent hold organized crime had on the country’s communities and further exposing young children to criminal recruitment.
www.vice.com/en/article/more-women-are-joining-mexicos-cartels/
Women have been sex trafficked in Mexico by the cartels and gangs. [13] The criminal organizations, in turn, use the profits to buy weapons and expand. They have harmed [ 14 ] [ 15 ] and carried out sexual assault of migrants from Latin America to the United States .
Nov 10, 2009 · She quickly became the Sinaloa cartel’s agent in Mexico City, authorities said, transporting cocaine into the capital’s neighborhoods -- relatively new terrain for the organization.
- tracy.wilkinson@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
Dec 1, 2023 · An increasing number of women are becoming part of Mexico’s cartels and criminal groups, according to a new report by the International Crisis Group, bolstering the violent hold organized...
Jan 17, 2024 · The new Netflix series Griselda casts light on a lesser-known figure in drug trafficking, and is part of a growing awareness of the women who run drug cartels in Latin America.
Aug 25, 2011 · What roles are women playing in the country's brutal drug trafficking war? How has their involvement changed in recent years? Is the increase merely a symptom of cartels' infiltration into Mexican life or are other factors contributing to the rise in women incarcerated for federal crimes?
During the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and particularly in the post-revolutionary period, Mexican women took a much more active role in engaging the state, formed political alliances and organizations, pressed for labor and political rights, and worked collectively and individually to secure suffrage.
Oct 26, 2021 · A growing number of women are getting trained to defend themselves—like Coronel—from the insidious misogyny and violence that characterizes Mexico’s narco-cultura.
