Mexico

Is Hezbollah really coming through the border in Arizona?

If there really is Daesh [ISIS/ISIL] training camp eight miles into Mexico, then let’s go. I’ll bring the beer and you stock up on ammo, because we aren’t leaving them there. But we all know they are not and never were there.

Mexico’s Jalisco Cartel reportedly used a fake security company to lure recruits

Security forces in Mexico have arrested 13 people who allegedly coerced prospective employees of a fake private security firm into becoming drug dealers and hitmen for the Jalisco Cartel, which according to authorities is a sign the group is changing its recruiting practices. Jesus Eduardo Almaguer Ramirez, attorney general of Jalisco state, announced on March 9 that law […]

Combined U.S. and Mexican raid on Sinaloa cartel results in arrest of 24

(CNN) A cross-border raid by U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials resulted in the arrest of 24 Sinaloa cartel members, authorities said. The sting occurred Friday around the Arizona border with Mexico, local media reported. It also netted “assault-type weapons” and hundreds of pounds of narcotics, said spokeswoman Gillian M. Christensen of the U.S. Immigration […]

Mexican State Militarization – A Way of Life for Many

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — The daily landscape in Mexican border cities has changed in recent years. A decade after the war on drugs started in Mexico, the militarization is total. Life has changed in the communities in the northern part of the country. Gradually in Mexico, particularly in the states with the most cartel activity became militarized. […]

El Chapo’s Goon Squad Gets Gassed Up by Mexican Marines (Video)

Helmet cam footage has emerged from the raid conducted by Mexican Marines which ultimately resulted in the capture of El Chapo, Mexico’s most notorious drug lord. Read more about the involvement of JSOC and the US Marshals in the raid here on SOFREP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPhFWHJsgkc

Another HVT Goes Down as Los Zetas’ Z42 Arrested

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 […]

Knights Templar Cartel’s “La Tuta” Captured

Mexico has scored another coup in the narco-insurgency. On February 27—in Morelia, the capital of Michoacan—Servando “La Tuta” Gomez was rolled up by Mexican police. “La Tuta,” also known as “El Profe” (The Professor) because of his past as a teacher, was the “spiritual” and operational leader of the Caballeros Templarios, the Knights Templar Cartel. […]

Growing Atomization of Mexican Cartels

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 […]