Category archives for: Counter Narcotics

Brazil: lower spending on public safety.

Recent surveys reflect public safety has not been the priority of the current Brazilian government. The surveys are talkinf about little investment public safety, high rates of crime and homicide, low percentage of homicides cleared by the justice system, increased sense of insecurity of the population, according to an article published by 180graus.com The article [...]

Gulf Cartel leader captured by Mexican Navy

The Americas Post - Another one bites the dust, but will this really change anything?

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, [...]

Mexican police fire on US embassy vehicle; two wounded

The Americas Post - Bulletproof armor works better than diplomatic license plates in Mexico

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 [...]

Spanish police claim to block cartel expansion

The Americas Post - Cocaine in Spain is headed down the drain.  Photo Credit:  Spanish Interior Ministry

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 [...]

Tons of marijuana discovered with new cross-border tunnels

The Americas Post - This one looks more like an industrial corridor than a smuggler's tunnel

Three highly sophisticated drug smuggling tunnels equipped with lighting and ventilation – including one with a railcar system – have been discovered along the U.S.-Mexico border in less than a week, the latest signs that cartels are building passages to escape heightened detection above ground. Two of the tunnels were incomplete, including one that the Mexican [...]

New elite anti-drug units proposed for Mexico

The Americas Post - These Colombian troops could be the model for new elite Mexican units

The leading security adviser for Mexico’s incoming president announced Friday that he is recommending the creation of elite units of police and troops who will target not just major drug traffickers but also lower-level cartel hitmen as a way of swiftly reducing violence. The proposal from newly retired Colombian police director Gen. Oscar Naranjo  offers a glimpse of [...]

US extradites cartel queenpin to Mexico

The Americas Post - Whoever dubbed Anel Violeta Noriega as "La Bonita" must have been sampling the merchandise

She’s gone by a number of different nicknames: “La Bonita” the pretty one; “La Chula,” the beautiful one; and “La Reina del Crimen,” the queen of crime. And now, she’s gone back to Mexico. U.S. authorities arrested Anel Violeta Noriega Rios in El Monte, Calif., outside of Los Angeles, on June 27, the Associated Press reports. [...]

Former Colombian general extradited to US

The Americas Post - It's a long way down from former presidential security chief to DEA prisoner

Retired Colombian police Gen Mauricio Santoyo, who is accused of drugs offenses in the United States, has turned himself in and already been extradited. Although his counterpart Colombian police general Oscar Naranjo has been selected by the new Mexican president to direct that country’s drug war, Gen Santoyo is accused of working for the other side, [...]

Mexico counts on Colombian general to win drug war

The Americas Post - Can Colombian General Oscar Naranjo demilitarize the Mexican drug war?

Inheriting a drug war that has cost more than 47,000 lives since 2006, newly elected Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto is gambling that the Colombian general who helped take down kingpin Pablo Escobar can save Mexico as well. After winning the vote on July 1, Pena Nieto said Mexicans want immediate results after frustration over the six-year death toll [...]

Mexico admits forces arrested the wrong guy

The Americas Post - This guy doesn't look very happy about being mistaken for a drug lord

Mexican authorities confirmed that a man arrested earlier this week and initially reported to be the son of fugitive drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” (Shorty) Guzman is in fact another individual. “After conducting the necessary tests to determine their identities, we found that (the two suspects presented to the media Thursday) are Felix Beltran Leon [...]

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