Mexico

Cardona’s future became clear when he and a second American teen were assigned two $5,000 commission jobs in Laredo. The first target was a Mexican cop, Bruno Orozco, who’d defected from the Zetas to join a Sinaloan boss, Chuy Resendez, in Laredo. The teens murdered Orozco by the side of a busy road in broad daylight. Most of the hastily assembled crew escaped, but Cardona landed up in the Laredo police station for questioning by Detective Robert Garcia.

U.S. law enforcement sources consulted by Breitbart Texas confirmed that the gunfire was heard on the northern side of the border prompting, authorities to take precautions. Sources within Mexico’s law enforcement described the gun battle as an average or “run of the mill” encounter.

Data from the 2016 Global Peace Index Report indicates that Mexico’s internal conflict led to approximately 33,000 deaths in 2015, a figure higher than those of war-torn countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan. The Institute for Economics and Peace presented its Global Peace Index 2016 report this week, in which Mexico is ranked 140 out of 163 […]

A “franchise model,” whereby large criminal organizations contract local groups along trafficking routes to Europe, giving these networks access to drugs, contacts and information about how to transport the product.

The Tamaulipas government has continued to provide a number of news releases about the capture of criminals and the seizures of drugs or stolen goods, information about all the gun battles that take place along the border remains severely limited.

Federal police killed at least 22 people on a ranch last year, then moved bodies and planted guns to corroborate the official account that the deaths happened in a gunbattle, Mexico’s human rights commission said Thursday. One police officer was killed in the confrontation in the western state of Michoacan on May 22, 2015. The […]

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

The director of the Miss World beauty pageant in Mexico has been shot dead in a targeted attack just hours after crowning the provincial winner for the violence-plagued state of Sinaloa. Hugo Rubén Castellanos Jiménez, 39, was killed in the early hours of Sunday morning, shortly after he and a friend were abducted by several masked gunmen […]

Human trafficking generates more than $2.4 billion in revenues worldwide, Alegret Cendejas said, citing findings from the Global Report on Trafficking in Person 2014, the most recent report the UNODC has published.

The cartel faction announces a new alliance calling themselves Carteles Unidos (United Cartels). The new alliance was allegedly formed between the Vieja Escuela, Grupo Bravo, the Gulf Cartel and two new groups calling themselves Talibans and Wero 74.

Under the leadership of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the cartel revolutionized the various methods used to smuggle drugs and launder money.

And with such methods being considered as “regular” by members, a woman operative recently arrested in California referred to as ‘La Peque’ by Mexican tabloids confessed to having sexual intercourse with corpses while working for the Los Zetas cartel.