Ten years of war in Mexico: ‘The Bloody Decade’

“President Calderón doesn’t listen,” many said, even within his party.

His apparent deafness of the problem, however, had a very high cost for Mexicans, who to this day, continue to pay, even with their own blood.

Fuerzas Comando 2016

The sniping event took place – not on a flat shooting range – but from awkward and / or precarious positions encountered in real-life situations.

Zetas drug gang ‘used Mexico prison as extermination camp to kidnap and kill 150’

Members of the Zetas drug gang used a prison in northern Mexico as their private house of horrors where they tortured and killed kidnapping victims and underworld enemies, public prosecutors in the state of Coahuila have said. Between 2009 and 2012, Piedras Negras prison became a virtual extermination camp, ruled with impunity by the notorious crime cartel as […]

Syrians Detained Trying to Cross Texas Border

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has confirmed that eight Syrians were taken into custody at the Laredo port of entry.  Two federal agents operating under the umbrella of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are claiming that eight Syrian illegal aliens attempted to enter Texas from Mexico in the Laredo Sector. The federal agents […]

Mexican Cartel Boss ‘ El Chapo’ Guzman Moved to Jail on U.S. Border

Mexican drug boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was moved on Saturday from a jail in central Mexico to a prison in Ciudad Juarez, a northern city on the U.S. border, in a move that appears to bring him closer to extradition to the United States. Guzman, head of the Sinaloa drug cartel, was one of […]

JTF-6 the Most Successful Mexican Border Interdiction – Considered a Failure

It was the early 1990s, the Soviet Union had collapsed, and the Gulf War had recently ended. The military was scrambling to justify manpower, means, and technology to a Democratic Congress and the Clinton administration, which foolishly saw to cuts in defense until 2000. In the midst of this scramble a security and technology deployment […]

Mexican Navy to Deploy Advanced SOF Vertical Takeoff Landing (VTOL) Drones

Arcturus UAV reports that the Mexican Navy is using its T-20 JUMP fixed-wing, Vertical Takeoff, and Landing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. The fixed-wing VTOL UAV, with an electro-optical/infrared payload, has been conducting unspecified operations since its procurement earlier this year, the California-based company said. The T-20 JUMP is a VTOL variant of Arcturus’ catapult launched T-20 […]

Heckler and Koch Illegally Exported Weapons to Corrupt Mexican Police Forces

A prosecutor asked for the opening of an investigation into four journalists and an activist, who revealed that German arms company, Heckler and Koch (H&K), illegally exported assault rifles to corrupt Mexican police forces. The investigative journalists uncovered documents which suggest that the German government may have colluded with H&K to circumvent the German arms […]