Last week, Mr. Obama returned to capitals in Latin America with a vastly different message. Relationships with countries racked by drug violence and organized crime should focus more on economic development and less on the endless battles against drug traffickers and organized crime capos that have left few clear victors. The countries, Mexico in particular, [...]
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Mexico City.- By command of President Peña, and starting immediately, Mexico’s Federal Police and military personnel will read a series of legal rights to suspects — including rights to know the charges against them, obtain free legal counsel and remain silent — from printed cards they carry with them. The announcement Friday by Undersecretary Eduardo [...]
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Mexican authorities have announced the capture of one of the country’s most wanted drug bosses, the head of the Gulf Cartel, marking another victory in President Felipe Calderon’s crackdown on organized crime. The Mexican Navy paraded Jorge Costilla, alias “El Coss,” before the media on Thursday along with several lower-ranking associates and a large cache of guns, [...]
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Mexican police on Monday discovered the bodies of 16 men dumped in a vehicle in the southwestern state of Guerrero, one of the areas worst hit by feuding between drug gangs. The victims, found near the city of Coyuca de Catalan, on the border with the western state of Michoacan, had been shot and showed [...]
Authorities in Mexico are unsure why federal police opened fire on a U.S. Embassy vehicle on a rural mountain road south of the capital, leaving two U.S. government workers wounded. Officials from both nations said the federal officers were chasing criminals Friday morning when a hail of bullets was fired at the embassy sport utility [...]
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Regardless of the veracity of the current rumors that Mexico’s feared Zetas organization has split into pieces, the organization’s breakup is a foregone conclusion given the group’s local revenue streams. Recently a US law enforcement source told APthat Zetas second-in-command Miguel Angel Treviño, alias Z-40, has successfully taken over control of the entire group, displacing [...]
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Spanish police and the FBI have reportedly blocked a major Mexican drug cartel from launching a European operation. Sinaloa cartel member Jesus Gutierrez Guzman was part of the operation. Guzman is alleged to be the cousin of Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman, known as “El Chapo,” the leader of the Sinaloa cartel. The ministry said the cartel wanted to [...]
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A United States federal jury in San Diego has found two former Border Patrol agents guilty of smuggling hundreds of people into the U.S. in Border Patrol vehicles, according to prosecutors. Following a five-week trial, Raul and Fidel Villarreal were found guilty of smuggling illegal immigrants for money, bringing illegal immigrants into the U.S., receiving [...]
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The head of security for a Mexican prison in Culiacan, the capital of the northwestern state of Sinaloa, has been gunned down, according to police. Alejandro Osuna Rios was murdered on Friday in front of his house, authorities announced. The 36-year-old had been in charge of security at the prison for four months. Osuna Rios was attacked by several gunmen [...]
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An international agency that oversees the U.S.-Mexico boundary is supporting a U.S. proposal to build border fence segments in a South Texas flood plain, which Mexico opposes. The decision by the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission comes despite objections from its Mexican counterpart. Mexico argues the fence would deflect floodwaters to its side of the Rio [...]
