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Act of Aggression is set in 2025, following the "Shanghai Crash", a global economic collapse engineered by the "Cartel" (a shady organization with presumed roots to anti-communist US participants during the JFK administration), which seeks to use the ensuing economic recession, terrorist acts and the unstable political climate to their advantage, to the point where even the United States Army ...
Although violence between drug cartels had been occurring for three decades, the Mexican government held a generally passive stance regarding cartel violence through the 1980s and early 2000s. [ 1 ] That changed on December 11, 2006, when the newly elected President Felipe Calderón sent 6,500 Mexican Army soldiers to the state of Michoacán to ...
On November 10, 1997, Adán Amezcua was arrested in his hometown of Colima, Col., Mexico, on weapons charges. [2] [4] Two years later in March 1999, Adán Amezcua was arrested on money laundering charges; the charges were however dropped 2 months later and he was released.
The head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Anne Milgram, told Congress in July that Mexico’s two most powerful criminal organizations — the Sinaloa cartel and the Jalisco New ...
He was the successor of Coronel Villarreal and top leader of La Corona Cartel, a Sinaloa Cartel-affiliated gang founded between late 2012 and early 2013. [14] [15] [16] His nephew and regional cartel leader in Durango, Humberto Rodríguez Coronel ("El Canelo"), was arrested by the Navy on 24 March 2013. [17]
[28] and accusing President Felipe Calderón and state authorities of protecting the cartel. [29] In 2010 and 2011, it was also claimed that the state government and police protected the cartel. [29] The addition of bodies to the messages suggested that the killers were trying to attract more attention to alleged cartel-government collusion. [29]
Even as the cartel mounted attacks across the state, the air force was able to fly the younger Guzmán to Mexico City, said Mexican Secretary of Defense Luis Cresencio Sandoval González.
Other sources indicate that the infighting could have been caused by the suspicions that the Rojos were "too soft" on the Gulf cartel's bitter enemy, Los Zetas. [10] When the Gulf cartel and Los Zetas split in early 2010, some members of the Rojos stayed with the Gulf cartel, while others decided to leave and join the forces of Los Zetas. [11]