A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been attacked with a football-sized rock by a Mexican national running narcotics in the Tucson Sector–an area controlled by Mexico’s Sinaloa Federation (cartel). The agent is recovering and was able to arrest the criminal despite being injured. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP): TUCSON, Ariz. –A suspected…
Category: The Drug War & The Border
Cartel Corner #52: The Top Ten Most Wanted Drug Lords (After El Chapo)
Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, the world’s most wanted drug lord, was captured on January 8 in his home state of Sinaloa, known as the “cradle of Mexican drug trafficking” because of the large number of infamous narcos born there. Now that he’s back behind bars, six months after he escaped, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)…
Cartel Corner #51: El Chapo’s Arrest Won’t Impact War on Drugs
There was a sigh of relief when the Mexican government successfully re-captured drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman last week. El Chapo, leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, is arguably the most powerful drug trafficker in the world, exporting volumns of illegal narcotics globally and spreading violence in its wake. However, DEA Agent Mike Vigil told…
Texas Border Security Update: Gulf Cartel Drugs and Weapons Way Station Raided in Brownsville, TX
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — County authorities in this border region raided a Mexican drug cartel weapons, cash, and narcotics way station that was being used to store ammunition and weapons that would be sent to drug cartels in Mexico and narcotics moving north. The raid took place Tuesday night in Brownsville when investigators with the Cameron…
The Tactics of Narco Criminal Insurgencies and their Deadly Repercussions
How the Mexican Drug Cartel’s Violence along the Border Threatens America’s Safety By Hammerhead Very often crime statistics about America’s Southern Border Security can be confusing or misleading. Most main stream media only release articles and summaries about what is happening in Mexico proper but not what is actually taking place ON THE BORDER, ie,…
Cartel Corner #50: Gulf Cartel Gunmen Ambush Mexican Intelligence Agents
CIUDAD MANTE, Tamaulipas — A team of cartel gunmen recently ambushed a squad of Mexican federal police officers near this Mexican city. The ambush turned into a pursuit and eventually a rescue effort as law enforcement officials searched for some of their missing comrades. Members of the intelligence division from Mexico’s Federal Police were ambushed last…
Cartel Corner #49: El Chapo in the Same Prison!? Same Song, Same Dance….
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…
Dose of Truth: 9 Reasons to Fear Mexican Drug Cartels More than ISIS (WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS)
Mexican drug cartels continue to fascinate the minds of Americans who tend to idolize outlaw gunmen with fast cash, fancy cars, guns and women. However, few realize that Mexican drug cartels are as ruthless and sadistic as Middle Easter terror groups like ISIS with whom they actually have many tactics in common. For most in America,…
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…