Mexican authorities have reported that a minimum of 20 prisoners were killed and 12 injured in Saturday rioting at a prison housing drug gang members in the violent border city of Matamoros. According to the Tamaulipas state government’s public security office, fighting broke out between two inmates but quickly spread among dozens more. Federal and [...]
Addressing the press after meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderón this week, United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Director Yury Fedotov stressed the impact that organized crime has on that region as well as other parts of the world. “These criminals are responsible for the death and misery of people across the globe [...]
Governors along the U.S.-Mexico border agreed on Thursday to study the possibility of shared databases to exchange suspect DNA and other biometric data in order to curb the flow of guns and drugs between the two countries. The agreement was announced at the end of an annual conference of regional leaders from both sides of [...]
Besides being an advisor of the Organization of American States (OAS), and directly involved in the peace process in Colombia, Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón has been very active in other matters related to Latin American politics. Recently in Mexico, Judge Garzón was invited to an international Conference on Money Laundering. During the event, the famous [...]
Mexico’s network of drug cartels is nebulous and complex, with organizations merging, splintering and shifting alliances in their quest to control drug-trafficking routes. Below is a rough overview of some of the major groups involved in the country’s drug trade, although there are numerous other affiliate groups and smaller players. READ MORE HERE
During the last months, an opposition to massive detentions and deportations of illegal resident of hispanic origin has increased. The critics say that the United States deportation policy is too wide – including good college kids, grandparents and other noncriminal illegals. To solve the situation, the Obama Administration on Thursday announced new rules that could [...]
Many of the traffickers gangs for sexual exploitation in America, Asia and Europe are led by citizens of Tlaxcala in Mexico. That is why the mexican authorities launched investigations to detect the native “pimps” of the smallest state in the Mexican Republic, according to the announcement of the President of the Special Commission for Combating [...]
Mexico and Guatemala agreed to intensify cooperation on border security and strengthen cooperation in combating organized crime and illegal drug trafficking. It is publicly known that the drug cartel “Los Zetas” have the control of certain areas of the common border. During a visit of the guatemalan president,Alvaro Colom, the President of Mexico Felipe Calderon [...]
Mexico: The alleged Zetas drug cartel leader suspected of killing a U.S. customs agent has been captured. His name is Jesús Enrique Rejón Aguilar, alias “el Manito”. He is believed to be the third in command of the criminal organization founded by former elite soldiers. Over the course of a decade, it went from being [...]
Yesterday, firefights between Zetas against members of the Gulf Cartel broke out shortly after 5 a.m. Friday across the city of Matamoros. The leader of Zetas arrived in Matamoros amid a convoy of more than 130 SUVs loaded with his Zeta followers. Sources outside law enforcement said that Heriberto “El Lazca” Lazcano Lazcano, the leader [...]
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