Mexican security forces descended on a region in the country’s northwest in October as part of a new phase in the search for fugitive Sinaloa cartel chief Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. And now there are disturbing new details about that intensifying manhunt. Guzmán remains free, but a recent report from Vice News details allegations that,…
Category: Mexico
Cartel Corner #41: Inside a Mexican Drug-Evidence Warehouse
In this excerpt from El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency, journalist Ioan Grillo describes what it is like to step inside a Mexican warehouse filled with confiscated drugs. To a hard-core drug aficionado, the evidence room on the Mexican army base in Culiacan, Sinaloa, would be a wet dream; it has enough crystal meth, cocaine, grass, pill, and…
Cartel Corner #40: Los Zetas Beheads 3 Informants Near Texas Border (GRAPHIC CONTENT)
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Authorities in this border state continue to look into the gory discovery of three decapitated bodies that the Los Zetas cartel dumped in public places. The heads were found in separate locations immediately south of the U.S.-Mexico border below the Del Rio Sector. The case began when local, state and federal…
Cartel Corner #39: Sinaloa Cartel Boss’ nephews Murder could spark more Narco Violence
Although details on the killing of a power drug capo’s nephew are still scarce, there is reason to believe the murder foreshadows a conflict for Mexico’s mighty Sinaloa Cartel. In the city of Culiacan, within the Sinaloa Cartel’s stronghold of Sinaloa state, a truck full of unidentified assailants reportedly opened fire on another truck full of men….
Cartel Corner #38: Mexican Marines Raid El Chapo Guzman’s Hometown, but amazingly they still don’t know where he is!
The charade continues in typical dramatic fashion….I wonder how much per day all the bribes Guzman is paying out break down too? a Million? 2 Million? -SF Earlier this week, Mexican troops entered La Tuna, the hometown of Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán in northwestern Mexico, and while it seems the soldiers are…
Cartel Corner #37: Drug Traffickers “Spoofing” Border Surveillance Drones
The homeland security agency, and local law enforcement as well, are looking to harden its drones against attack, but that comes at a price. The drug cartels aren’t just buying golden Uzis anymore. As the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, or CBP, has upped its drone patrols along America’s Mexican border, narcotics traffickers have…
Border Security Update: Team led by “Middle Eastern” Woman caught Surveilling U.S. Facility on Mexican Border
“Team led by Middle Eastern Woman Caught Surveilling U.S. Facility on Mexican Border,” Judicial Watch, December 16, 2015: DECEMBER 16, 2015 A Middle Eastern woman was caught surveilling a U.S. port of entry on the Mexican border holding a sketchbook with Arabic writing and drawings of the facility and its security system, federal law enforcement…
Cartel Corner #36: Gulf Cartel Attacks Mexican Federal Building, Two Arrested in Spain for buying Weapons for Cartel
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — Gulf Cartel gunmen stormed the headquarters of Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office in this border city knocking down the front gate and shooting up the building before making their getaway. The attack took place Monday early morning when various gunmen in two SUV’s rammed the door of the building and then fired their…
Cartel Corner #35: “El Chapo” Paid Handsomely for his Escapes from Prison
The Mexican attorney general released more details from the government’s investigation of Sinaloa drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s high-profile prison escape in July, though she refrained from divulging specifics. “The exact amount of how much [El Chapo] spent [to escape] we have not documented totally,” Arely Gómez González, Mexico’s attorney general, told Mexican newspaper Milenio in…
Cartel Corner #34: The El Chapo/ISIS Media Bandwagon Rides Again!
A blog about Mexican drug cartels reported on December 7 about a leaked encrypted email supposedly sent by notorious Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán to prominent Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. In the email, Guzmán allegedly threatens to retaliate against ISIS for destroying drug shipments and interfering in cartel business….