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MEXICO CITY -- People across the U.S. and world saw shocking video of more than a dozen armed, masked men storming an Ecuadorian television station during a live broadcast earlier this month.. The ...
Mexico’s two main drug cartels have long taken their deadly rivalry with them as they expand into distant markets from Asia to Australia to Africa, but never before with such intensive street ...
Trump's national security adviser, former Rep. Mike Waltz (R–Fla.), introduced a bill in 2023 to authorize war against Mexican cartels—and any other drug trafficker or criminal organization ...
He was the leader and the co-founder of the first major Mexican drug cartel, the Guadalajara Cartel, an alliance of the current existing cartels (which included the Sinaloa Cartel, the Juarez Cartel, the Tijuana Cartel, and the Sonora Cartel with Aldair Mariano as the leader). After his arrest, the alliance broke, and high-ranking members ...
News Nation, which first revealed the memo, also reported that posts on TikTok and other social media sites by the cartels have advised illegal migrants to “spit and urinate” in ICE agents ...
Some relatives of cartel victims in violence-torn areas of Mexico hoped that designating the cartels as terrorist organizations could help their quest for justice. Adrián LeBarón, whose daughter was killed in a 2019 massacre in northern Mexico , said he hoped it could raise visibility for victims of violence in Mexico, one of the most violent ...
The initial plan to designate Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations arose from Trump's promise to "wage war" on Mexican cartels in an effort to curb the fentanyl crisis ravaging U.S. communities.
Operation Michoacán is the first stage of the so-called War Against Drug Trafficking implemented by the federal government of President Felipe Calderón. The joint operation has been questioned about the human rights violations that may have occurred, given the military presence among the civilian population of the state of Michoacán.