Mexico
Extraditions signal continued Sinaloa impunity?
Mexico extradited 13 top drug-trafficking suspects to the United States—but all from Los Zetas and other rival organzations to the Sinaloa Cartel.
Tag: Chihuahua
Mexico
Mexican cartel wars winding down?
Mexican authorities claimed another coup against the cartels with the arrest of Héctor Beltran Leyva, last remaining kingpin of the Beltran Leyva Organization.
Mexico
Mexico: new massacre strikes terror in JuƔrez
A new massacre is reported from Ciudad Juárez, again raising fears of a return to the wave of deadly violence that convulsed the Mexican border city for much of the past decade.
Mexico
Mexico passes ‘education reform’; demos continue
PeƱa Nieto has gotten Congress to pass three measures he says will improve public schools; teachers say the laws are part of a program for dumbing down the system.
Mexico
Ciudad JuƔrez: femicide avenger strikes back
A vigilante calling herself Dianaā the Hunter claimed credit for the slaying of two bus drivers in Ciudad JuĆ”rez, calling it revenge for sexual abuse of women by night-shift drivers.
Mexico
Mexico: notorious kingpin Caro Quintero freed
Mexico’s most notorious kingpin, Rafael Caro Quintero, was released from Puente Grande federal prison in Jalisco where he had been incarcerated for the past 28 years.
Mexico
Violence surges in Tamaulipas: State Department
Murders in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas jumped more than 90% and kidnapping reports more than doubled over last year to the highest rate in the country.
Mexico
Wave of barroom balaceras across Mexico
Gunmen shot up nightclubs in Chihuahua, Oaxaca and Guerrero, killing 11 and kidnapping oneāthe latest in a surge of violence since the change of government in Mexico.
Mexico
Mexico: JuƔrez rights activist seeks asylum in US
An activist whose teenaged daughter disappeared in 2008 has applied for political asylum in the US after being harassed by the authorities in Ciudad JuƔrez.
Mexico
Peace of the graveyard in Ciudad JuƔrez?
Violent deaths in Ciudad Juárez dropped to 800 last year, down from a peak of 3,622 in 2010—likely because the Sinaloa Cartel has finally crushed local rival, the Juárez Cartel.
Mexico
Mexico: more mass graves in Chihuahua, Guerrero
A total of 19 bodies were found in clandestine graves in northern Mexico’s Chihuahua state, after local police were tipped off by the US consulate in Ciudad JuĆ”rez.
Mexico
Mexico: torture and abuse cases continue to increase
Complaints of torture and other abuse by the police and the military have tripled since 2008, as the government steps up its militarized “war on drugs.”