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Focusing on the end of the PRI dictatorship in the late 1990s and the contemporary era, Zavala claims that much of the narrative around narcotics trafficking is based solely in the claims of the US and Mexican governments and various cultural depictions, with little connection to the trade as it exists.
In January 2009, Rodolfo de la Guardia García, ex-director of Mexico's Interpol office, was arrested. [332] Julio César Godoy Toscano, who was just elected July 6, 2009, to the lower house of Congress, is charged with being a top-ranking member of La Familia Michoacana drug cartel and of protecting this cartel. [333] He is now a fugitive.
The infighting between the Metros and the Rojos of the Gulf cartel began in 2010, when Mejía González was overlooked as the candidate of the regional boss of Reynosa and was sent to La Frontera Chica, an area that encompasses Miguel Alemán, Camargo and Ciudad Mier, Tamaulipas – directly across the U.S.–Mexico border from Starr County ...
According to Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of The A.V. Club, the film is "[b]oth an unflinching record of Mexico's drug war and an investigation of how violence becomes unreal and glamorized". [ 11 ] Following its screening at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival , Justin Lowe of The Hollywood Reporter said "This issue-based journalism piece yields ...
The Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity (MPJD) (Spanish: Movimiento por la Paz con Justicia y Dignidad) is an ongoing protest movement that began on 28 March 2011 in response to the Mexican Drug War, government and corporate corruption, regressive economic policies, and growing economic inequality and poverty.
Fausto Isidro Meza Flores, also known as "El Chapo Isidro", is a Mexican drug lord and leader of Los Mazatlecos.He has a high rank in the Beltrán Leyva Cartel and was the right-hand man of Alfredo Beltrán Leyva before he was incarcerated in the United States.
The Mérida Initiative (named after Mérida, the city where it was agreed upon), also called Plan Mexico (in reference to Plan Colombia), was a security cooperation agreement among the United States, the government of Mexico, and the countries of Central America, that ran from from 2007 to 2021. [1]
The video starts with the former vocalist of Banda El Recodo singing "El Señor de las Canas", a song by Vicente Fernández, alongside a mariachi group. As the film progresses, the camera turns to the sides and shows former footballer Jared Borgetti sitting at a table with Rocío del Carmen Lizárraga, wife of Francisco Rafael. Towards the last ...