El Chapo Could Soon Be Back in the Same Cell He Escaped From Last Time Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán woke up this morning for the fifth time since his recapture last Friday in the maximum-security Altiplano prison — the same prison the drug lord escaped from in July 2015. Mexico’s interior minister has said he…
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Cartel Corner #48: El Chapo’s Top Hitman Caught by Mexican Authorities
Joaquín Guzmán Loera wasn’t the only major organized crime figured captured Friday in Los Mochis. His chief of sicarios — the cartel’s main hitman — was also taken in by elements from the Mexican Navy. His name is Iván Gastelum Cruz, also known as El Cholo Iván, and he was also a fugitive. Gastelum had…
Cartel Corner #47: 10 Things El Chapo Revealed in Interview
Last night, Rolling Stone magazine published an interview with Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Loera, conducted by Hollywood actor Sean Penn. Mexican actress Kate del Castillo was also present at the meeting, which took place last September 28. Penn later made a detailed narration of the events for the magazine, and recalled a 7-hour conversation with the…
Cartel Corner #44: Mexican Mayor Assassinated Hours After Taking Office, Dies Defending Her Family
The government of Morelos made the announcement that the 33-year-old mayor, Gisela Mota Ocampo, had been murdered inside her home in Temixco just hours after she had been sworn in as mayor of the city. Mota had won the election for mayor last June and was sworn in on New Year’s Day. On Saturday morning…
Government Seizes 90,000 Bottles of Kratom
You have to keep an eye on stuff like this…some of these so called ‘supplements’ have narcotic plants in them…people take too many of them and they turn into violent street monkeys or worse yet, impaired drivers.-SF On Wednesday, US Marshalls seized 90,000 bottles of a dietary supplement containing a legal drug called kratom, which…