Mexico
Chicago link to Mexican mass abduction?
Another major bust of an accused Mexican cartel operative in Chicago this time involves the Guerreros Unidos—the gang named in the the disappearance of 43 college students.
Tag: Sinaloa Cartel
Mexico
Sentencing in Sinaloa Cartel’s Chicago connection
A case related to the Sinaloa Cartel's Chicago connection provided further fodder for the increasingly plausible theory that the DEA protected Mexico's biggest crime machine.
Central America
Honduras claims blow against Sinaloa Cartel
A raid by a new DEA-trained Honduran anti-narco force took down the country's reigning kingpin, José Inocente Valle, who possessed a cache of gold bars stamped "SINALOA."
Mexico
Mexico claims another blow against cartels
Mexico claimed the capture of Juárez Carel kingpin Vicente Carrillo Fuentes AKA "El Viceroy"—yet another take-down of a defeated rival of the hegemonic Sinaloa Cartel.
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
Fortune magazine ranks top five global cartels
Fortune magazine issued a list of the biggest organized crime groups in the world: elements of Japan's Yakuza, Russian mafia, two Italian syndicates and Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel.
The Andes
Peru: record coke bust points to Mexican cartels
A record-breaking cocaine bust on Peru's Pacific coast points not only to booming production, but the increasing role of the Mexican cartels in the Andean narco economy.
Mexico
Sinaloa kingpin prevails in prison hunger strike
Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Chapo Guzmán claimed victory after leading a hunger strike joined by hundreds of inmates at Mexico's top-security Altiplano prison.
Mexico
Mexico: still more ‘narco-fosas’ uncovered
Mexican authorities unearthed five recently buried bodies from a clandestine grave in a rural pueblo of Sinaloa state—the latest in a long string of such gruesome finds.
Mexico
US Border Patrol smuggled arms for Sinaloa Cartel?
A protected witness testified to Mexican prosecutors that members of the US Border Patrol collaborated with the Sinaloa Cartel in arms trafficking to the criminal network.
Mexico
Mexico: mass graves unearthed in Coahuila
Authorities in the northeastern Mexican state of Coahuila announced that they have recovered at least 500 sets of human remains from mass graves along the Texas border.
Mexico
Mexican feds: ‘Got Shorty!’ El Chapo busted —at last
Mexican authorities announced the arrest of the country's top drug lord, the notorious Joaquin Guzmán AKA "El Chapo" (Shorty)—who had eluded capture for over 10 years.