Cartels

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) describes them, as perhaps, “the most technologically advanced, sophisticated, and violent of these paramilitary enforcement groups.”

Mexico is a place of many rumors and much chisme, or gossip. One of the most frightening rumors you hear these days—especially given the tragic, ISIS-inspired shooting in Orlando—is that members of the so-called Islamic State have infiltrated the cartels, seeking to recruit hardened sicarios, hit men, to their cause.  ISIS’s nefarious motive, naturally, would be to use […]

Well, being a Marine, I wasn’t about to give up. This was probably stupid, but I’m all about mission accomplishment, I guess.

The cartels have hacked America by flooding our borders with decoy migrants and marijuana shipments, but we still think we’re winning.

Bring me a bottle of Scotch when it’s time to get wild. I’ll pass on the pot. Still, I know it’s a foolish waste of resources to continue an unwinnable war against it.

At this point, it’s like a bad joke we share with each other: “Remember that time I took leave so we could go hunt Mexican cartels in the desert?”

It’s time to make the difficult decision to piss of some people and implement eminent domain along the border.

This type of arrangement is hardly unprecedented, as Delta Force also worked in the shadows during the search for, and eventual killing of, Pablo Escobar in Colombia. They’ve also served in advisory capacities during hostage-rescue missions in places as diverse as Sudan and Peru.

The gist of the film “Sicario”: White America is the home of cops, soldiers, and the rule of law. Mexico is filled with scary brown people who sell drugs.

Mexican history and culture have shaped the drug war as much as any drug market.

Alejandro “Omar” Treviño-Morales, code-named “Z42,” who took over the Los Zetas Cartel after the arrest of his brother, Miguel Treviño-Morales, was arrested on March 4. He was captured in the municipality of San Pedro Garza Garcia, part of Monterrey and the richest area of Nuevo Leon—traditionally a hangout for narcos from the Juarez Cartel and […]

On February 22, 2014, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, head of the Sinaloa Cartel, was captured in his beachside house in Mazatlan by Mexican Marines. It was the culmination of a 13-year manhunt for the drug lord, and was praised as a major coup. A “big strike,”according to former Mexican President Calderon. El Chapo was the most […]