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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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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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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Investigators tracking the flow of illicit drug money have now followed it right into the Bank of America. A federal probe into Los Zetas, a Mexican drug cartel, claims that the group has been laundering money through accounts at BofA, according to a recent report in The Wall Street Journal. An FBI affidavit filed in Texas last month said [...]
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, [...]
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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 [...]
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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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