What Does Colombia’s Peace Deal Mean for the Cocaine Trade? This is of course going to have HUGE implications in the Southern Border States like my home state of Texas. Stay on your toes gents. Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!
Category: The Drug War & The Border
RKBA Alert: U.S. Gun Ownership is Now a Human Rights Violation???
Mexico Repeats Call for U.S. Gun Ban while Ignoring the Obvious (click on above link title to be re-directed to source page) As my dad would say, “Get the Shovel because there is a big load of bullshit at our front door…” I should not even have to explain this one folks, the lunacy kinda…
Cartel Corner#93: Cartel Tactics Analysis of Nuevo Laredo Cartel Battle: 16 July 2010
Cartel Tactics Analysis of Nuevo Laredo Cartel Battle, 16 July 2010 (Click on Above Title Link to be Re-directed to Source Page) **WARNING** Contains Graphic Images from Police Crime Photos. Not Safe For Work! These type of overviews are extremely helpful in studying gangs and cartel TTP’s. Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!
Cartel Corner #92: Columbia’s Elites and Organized Crime
Colombia Elites and Organized Crime (click link above to be re-directed to Host Site) InSight Crime has done an OUTSTANDING job on producing a 3 part series on understanding the current narco-business culture in Columbia which revolves around a connection between the Countries Elite Families and Personalities and the the Country’s most Notorious Drug Lords….
Cartel Corner #91: Gulf Cartel Policing Texas Border for Petty Criminals?
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — The failed strategy by the Mexican government has created a new issue in this border city where organized crime has tried to diminish common crime in an effort to lower public attention. Drug cartels appear to be succeeding in lowering common crime, something that the State of Tamaulipas has failed in. “They…
Cartel Corner #89: Homemade Narco Tanks (Yeah I said TANKS)
As drug-trafficking-related violence in Mexico raged, the cartels came up with a radical solution for improving their capabilities in face-offs with other criminal groups and Mexican security services. Narco tanks are homemade armored vehicles, also known in Spanish as “monstruo” for their hulking size. They reached peak popularity in 2011 as the Mexican military seized…
Texas Border News: Headless Body Leads to Arrest of TX Border Patrol Agent
The Texas Tribune is taking a year-long look at the issues of border security and immigration. This part of the project focuses on U.S. law enforcement corruption, which has undermined efforts to secure the border. SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Tex. — It looked like a crab trap floating in the calm waters of Laguna Madre, just…
Cartel Corner #88: Cartels Near Texas Border Armed with RPG’s
The Mexican Los Zetas cartel controls portions of the Texas-Mexico border and has proven to possess Russian rocket-propelled grenade launchers and the grenades (RPGs). This is significant in that the Mexican transnational group has shown a willingness to fire upon U.S. aircraft, such as they did on June 5, 2015 in the Laredo Sector along…
Cartel Corner #87: The Lime Grower Vs. The Cartel
How A Lime Grower Led An Uprising Against One of Mexico’s Bloodiest Cartels IT WAS WINTER in the pocket of Mexico known as Tierra Caliente, the Hot Land. The sky was cloudless and the sun’s rays were casting flickering reflections off the convoy coming into focus: two behemoth SUVs, one black, one silver, passengers invisible…
Cartel Corner #86: Attack on El Chapo’s Hometown Points To A Cartel Turf War
Heavily armed men reportedly descended on the hometown of “El Chapo,” ransacking his mother’s home, killing several residents and displacing 150 families, a clear indication that the sun is setting on an era marked by the Mexican crime boss’s dominance. A gang of 150 attackers appeared early on June 11 in the small mountain town…