Sean Penn Perpetuates Narco-Worship in a Blood-Stained Country The recently published interview between Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and Sean Penn, while being presented as heroic, is in fact just perpetuating Mexico’s sickly worship of drugs, violence and mass murder. Penn, a Hollywood artist and activist wrote an article for Rolling Stone where…
Category: The Drug War & The Border
Cartel Corner #45: How the Sinaloa Cartel Dominates The Cocaine Trade
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, the powerful leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, was recaptured on January 8 in a town not far from where he was born in Sinaloa state. While its leader appears to be out of commission yet again, the Sinaloa cartel is still arguably the largest drug-trafficking organization in the world, and the deep ties to…
El Chapo Captured (Again)
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has announced the capture of fugitive drug lord Joaquin Guzman Loera el Chapo. On Friday shortly afternoon, Pena Nieto took to twitter to announce “Mission accomplished we have him.” Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto announced the capture of El Chapo via Twitter While official information remains scant, preliminary information points…
Border Security Update: Feds Eye 6 Military bases to House “Unaccompanied Minors”
So now BHO is turning our Military bases into babysitting camps for Illegal children? Wasn’t it enough that he forced “transgender” regulations on our Military..now this!!??-SF The Obama administration is eyeing six military bases to potentially house the recent surge of undocumented children from Central America illegally crossing into the U.S. through the southern Mexico…
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…
Cartel Corner #43: Houston Cop Faces 10 Years for Helping Los Zetas Cartel
A former Houston police officer is facing up to 10 years in prison on conspiracy charges related to alleged ties to a Mexican cartel. The officer is now feeling pressure due to information being provided by convicted cocaine traffickers. Officer Noe Juarez’s alleged involvement with the notorious Los Zetas cartel goes back to 2006, according to…
Cartel Corner #42: The Search for “El Chapo” Intensifies… (Yeah Right)
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,…
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….