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The Mexican government has asserted that their primary focus is dismantling the cartels, and preventing drug trafficking demand along with American functionaries. (wikipedia.org)
Although Mexican drug trafficking organizations have existed for several decades, their influence increased after the demise of the Colombian Cali and Medellín cartels in the 1990s. (wikipedia.org)
By 2007, Mexican drug cartels controlled 90% of the cocaine entering the United States. (wikipedia.org)
Arrests of key cartel leaders, particularly in the Tijuana and Gulf cartels, have led to increasing drug violence as cartels fight for control of the trafficking routes into the United States. (wikipedia.org)
Recently, cartels in Northeastern Mexico have been thinking of teaming up against the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. (wikipedia.org)
The killings are being blamed on drugs cartels fighting for control. (bbc.co.uk)
How U.S. drug policy is making Mexican cartels more deadly. (foreignpolicy.com)
Unfortunately, though, the United States has failed to come up with a working strategy to weaken the most powerful players in today's drug trade: the handful of Mexican cartels that control the shipment of drugs across the border. (foreignpolicy.com)
The United States is, in essence, arming the drug cartels as it fights the drug war. (foreignpolicy.com)
Calderon gave a frank assessment of what is going on in Mexico: that cartels control some areas of the country, corruption is rampant, judges are paid to let criminals go and local police are in the employ of gangs. (nbcnews.com)
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has deployed about 50,000 troops to crackdown on drug cartels since December 2006. (cnn.com)
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has deployed about 50,000 troops to the nation's trouble spots since he began a crackdown on drug cartels shortly after taking office in December 2006. (cnn.com)
Drug cartels in Mexico are penetrating the avocado sector for serious profit and money laundering. (projectcensored.org)
During Calderon's six-year offensive against cartels, there have been more than 55,000 drug-related killings. (newsmax.com)
The Mexican president's ties to cartels, the mysterious release from prison of major cartel figures during his presidency, and the fact that regions of Mexico are under operational control of these paramilitary transnational criminal organizations during his presidency are rarely, if ever, reported in the U.S. The outrageous number of journalists who have been murdered or who have simply disappeared in Peña Nieto's Mexico is also rarely reported. (breitbart.com)
A few examples of the current Mexican president's softness towards his nation's drug cartels provide some insight into the realities in Mexico that are ignored by U.S. media. (breitbart.com)
Under Peña Nieto, Mexican cartels only grew in power as his government appears to be unable or unwilling to stop the cartel violence. (breitbart.com)
The DEA said in its threat assessment that the Jalisco New Generation and Sinaloa cartels are suspected of exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic, which briefly disrupted supply chains for components of synthetic drugs, to inflate the wholesale price of methamphetamine in the United States. (latimes.com)
In the Reuters article titled " Mexico bristles at U.S. cartel plan, insists it's doing its part ," Gladys McCormick, Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations, weighs in on President Trump's plans to designate the Mexican cartels as terrorist groups. (syr.edu)
McCormick was also interviewed for the Bloomberg article " Drug Cartels Muscle Into Mexican Town Packed With Americans . (syr.edu)
President Donald Trump says Mexican drug cartels must be "wiped off the face of the Earth," after suspected gang members massacred nine U.S. women and children in northern Mexico. (globalsecurity.org)
He offered to help Mexico "wage war" against the cartels. (globalsecurity.org)
A man and a woman look at images of people who have been disappeared in the context of Mexico's fight against drug cartels and organized crime, Mexico City, May 10, 2019 (AP photo by Eduardo Verdugo). (worldpoliticsreview.com)
If implemented, the plan would mark a major shift in Mexico's drug and security policies, which have operated under the logic of a low-intensity war against drug cartels since 2006, shortly after Felipe Calderon took office, and have received U.S. funding since 2008. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
Mexico and the U.S. might not agree on trade or border walls, but the two governments can agree on fighting drug cartels. (scrippsnews.com)
Investigators are going to focus on the drug routes into the U.S. and how cartels get their drug money back out of the country. (scrippsnews.com)
State and federal law enforcement authorities say Mexican drug cartels are increasingly using public land to grow marijuana. (kpbs.org)
And federal officials have tied 80 percent of this year's crop - which they expect to set a record - to Mexican drug cartels. (kpbs.org)
Mexico's drug war is an asymmetric conflict between the Mexican government and various drug trafficking cartels. (rt.com)
Cartels currently dominate Mexico's illicit drug market and were estimated to have controlled 90 percent of the cocaine trafficked to the United States in 2007. (rt.com)
Police didn't say whether they suspected the men of ties to drug cartels. (vice.com)
For years cartels been using commercial UAVs to smuggle drugs. (vice.com)
Drug cartels were plenty dangerous before they weaponized flying robots. (vice.com)
More than 60,000 people have died in Mexico's drug violence since 2006 and politicians are looking for new solutions, as sending the military to fight the cartels has not reduced the carnage. (aljazeera.com)
A study by the Mexican Centre for Competitiveness says Mexican drug cartels could lose as much as $1.4bn due to the new laws in the two states. (aljazeera.com)
This is a pinprick in terms of the Mexican cartels," says Keith Humphreys, a former senior White House Policy Adviser on the drug trade. (aljazeera.com)
Mark Karlin: Approximately 50,000 or more Mexicans have been killed since Mexican President Felipe Calderon launched a so-called war on drug cartels. (truthout.org)
A few days after his election in December 2006, Mexican President Felipe Calderón started the deployment of armed and police troops to curtail the organized crime and dismantle drug cartels. (globaljournalist.org)
Drug cartels, such as Los Zetas, the Gulf, and the Sinaloa are powerful and violent organizations that control the drug trafficking - which often goes beyond the borders of Mexico - and fight for the territories. (globaljournalist.org)
Massacres of innocent civilians are an arm used by the cartels to terrorize the population and deter the Mexican authorities from pursuing anti-drugs policy, which is provided by the U.S. (globaljournalist.org)
Mexican authorities regularly arrest drug lords, but the main stake is whether Peña Nieto will reassert more autonomy from the U.S. on his war against the cartels. (globaljournalist.org)
From January to August of this year, only 46,914 undocumented migrants were apprehended, which the INM official blamed on the deepening involvement of Mexican drug cartels in migrant trafficking, extortion and kidnapping. (insightcrime.org)
The Zetas, one of Mexico's powerful drug cartels, have been operating in the Guatemalan province for over a year. (neontommy.com)
Zetas, and other Mexican drug cartels, have infamously infiltrated the local, state, and federal police -- as well as the national army -- in their home turf in Mexico. (neontommy.com)

When enforcement efforts intensified in South Florida and the Caribbean, the Colombian organizations formed partnerships with the Mexico-based traffickers to transport cocaine by land through Mexico into the United States. (wikipedia.org)
This was easily accomplished because Mexico had long been a major source of heroin and cannabis, and drug traffickers from Mexico had already established an infrastructure that stood ready to serve the Colombia-based traffickers. (wikipedia.org)
At first, the Mexican gangs were paid in cash for their transportation services, but in the late 1980s, the Mexican transport organizations and the Colombian drug traffickers settled on a payment-in-product arrangement. (wikipedia.org)
This year, the U.S. secretaries of defense, state, and homeland security, as well as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, paid a high-profile group visit to Mexico to demonstrate U.S. solidarity in the fight against Mexico's drug traffickers. (foreignpolicy.com)
Traffickers today must outwit American soldiers, Drug Enforcement Administration agents, and Border Patrol officers. (foreignpolicy.com)
Getting the rest there involves evading navies and coast guards at sea and radar surveillance in the air, or navigating an array of land hazards in Central America and Mexico: police and military checkpoints where officers often charge bribes proportional to the price of the drugs, as well as rival traffickers and other criminal organizations. (foreignpolicy.com)
The meeting at Mexico City's historic Chapultepec Castle was emotionally charged, with a mother breaking down in tears as she demanded results into the investigation of her four missing sons, and a relative of two slaying victims of drug traffickers holding back tears while he asked for an update in their case. (nbcnews.com)
According to Hootsen, the Caballeros Templarios (the Knights Templar) derive from an earlier group of drug traffickers known as La Familia Michoacana, which trafficked marijuana, cocaine and heroin until 2010 when its leader, Nazario Moreno, was killed. (projectcensored.org)
The daughter of a Mexican drug cartel leader, whose organization authorities say is responsible for smuggling much of the fentanyl and methamphetamine coming through Los Angeles, pleaded guilty Friday to doing business with companies linked to narcotics traffickers. (latimes.com)
She was charged with breaking a law known as the Kingpin Act, which makes it a crime for a U.S. citizen to do business with an entity that the Treasury Department has identified as having supported drug traffickers. (latimes.com)
Benjamin LeBaron, who had taken on the gangs, was murdered in 2009, and several other members of the Mormon community in Chihuahua have also been targeted by drug traffickers. (globalsecurity.org)
Drug traffickers have shot doctors who treated them. (labornotes.org)
At the end of the day, we can knock off these lower-level drug traffickers here in Chicago or any major city in the United States, but we need to be able to expand the investigations, take the cartel leaders out of their comfort zones, and extradite them to the United States,' said DEA Chicago Special Agent in Charge Brian McKnight. (scrippsnews.com)
I deny any link with drug traffickers. (stopthedrugwar.org)
Mexican authorities had offered a $750,000 reward for information leading to his capture, with prosecutors accusing him of being one of the main traffickers of drugs to the United States. (dailysabah.com)
The Guatemalan army has moved against Mexican drug traffickers who have been operating in the province of Alta Verapaz with "total impunity," according to government spokesperson Ronaldo Robles. (neontommy.com)

At least 20 people have been killed in what Mexican police say is a violent feud between rival drugs gangs across the country. (bbc.co.uk)
The government of President Felipe Calderon has deployed tens of thousands of soldiers and federal police across Mexico to confront the powerful drug trafficking gangs. (npr.org)
It's just a matter of time before we start seeing our own judges and law enforcement officials taken down by drug gangs. (thenation.com)
Surrounded by grim-faced top Cabinet members and the first lady, the president pointed his finger and pounded the table to emphasize that with criminal gangs seeking to control Mexico, it would have been irresponsible not to act. (nbcnews.com)
MEXICO CITY - Mexico has captured a leader of the country's Gulf Cartel in one of the highest-profile arrests in months in President Felipe Calderon's war on drug gangs. (newsmax.com)
The ambush took place Monday in a remote area of Mexico's northern Sinaloa state, where the Sinaloa cartel has carried a long and bloody turf war with rival drug gangs. (globalsecurity.org)
The LeBaron family has been in conflict with drug gangs for years. (globalsecurity.org)
Many of the shootings and kidnappings go unreported to avoid stigmatizing the victims, since any victim is often thought to be involved in the drug business, or to prevent retaliation from gangs for reporting the incident. (labornotes.org)
PEMEX abandoned those fields after drug gangs threatened and kidnapped workers. (labornotes.org)
In the southern states of Tabasco and Chiapas, drug gangs have kidnapped at least 10 people and perhaps as many as 30, both PEMEX executives and workers. (labornotes.org)
But Guanajuato is currently contested by several drug gangs, including the Sinaloa cartel, Los Zetas, and Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación, or CJNG, according to Dr. Robert Bunker, a fellow with Small Wars Journal , a military trade publication. (vice.com)
The impact of the new US marijuana laws on Mexico is being weighed in terms of the financial impact on drug gangs and the political impact on the Nieto administration. (aljazeera.com)
Some analysts believe the new legislation will hurt Mexican drug gangs as they will lose access to parts of the US marijuana market as their products are displaced by local supplies. (aljazeera.com)
It challenged a widely reported estimate that drug gangs earn 60 percent of their revenue from marijuana trafficking. (aljazeera.com)
Aside from the potential impact on drug gangs themselves, there has also been speculation that the decisions in Colorado and Washington could have profound political consequences in Mexico. (aljazeera.com)
The newspaper says: "The case soon revealed the deep infiltration by drug gangs of police and City Hall in Iguala, about 80 miles south of Mexico City, and in other municipalities in Guerrero state. (wypr.org)
Legalization there will not eliminate the black market in the United States, which is what produces the majority of the trafficking profits that have enriched Mexico's violent drug gangs, and it's the violent drug gangs that are the real problem for Mexico. (nacla.org)
No motive has been identified in the killing, but the town lies on a major highway leading to the border, in an area plagued by drug gangs. (foxnews.com)
Drug gangs have been known to take over ranches in northern Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas states to use them as training grounds or safe houses. (foxnews.com)

MEXICO CITY-Violence from Mexico's drug war is slowing, the country's president said, after years of steadily growing carnage that has traumatized its society, hurt the economy and damaged the nation's international standing. (wsj.com)
More people were killed in Mexico's drug war in 2008 than all the U.S. service members killed in the entire Iraq war. (npr.org)
Can AMLO End Mexico's Drug War? (worldpoliticsreview.com)
Mexico's drug war, out of control? (globaljournalist.org)
With the U.S. expanding the role of CIA operatives and possibly private security contractors in Mexico's drug war, there were reports this week that both countries are intent on circumventing Mexican laws that prohibit foreign military and police from operating inside the country. (worldpoliticsreview.com)

Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero had served 28 years when he was set free by a judge. (cnn.com)
Mexico's high court has overturned a lower court ruling that freed Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero. (cnn.com)
Infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985, has been captured by Mexican forces nearly a decade after walking out of a Mexican prison and returning to drug trafficking. (10news.com)
In August 2013, a Mexican federal court released Rafael Caro Quintero, a drug lord who at one time was the leader of the Guadalajara cartel . (breitbart.com)
Rafael Caro Quintero is a Mexican drug lord who helped create the Guadalajara Cartel in the '80s and considered to be responsible for the death of a Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ) agent. (marca.com)

The Mexican Supreme Court's decision came a day after U.S. authorities said they would pay up to $5 million for information leading to Caro Quintero's arrest or conviction. (cnn.com)
After a meeting in Washington in September, Mexican Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam promised that authorities in his country would reapprehend Caro Quintero . (cnn.com)
The local authorities "took all the bags off the plane, and had drug-sniffing dogs go through the plane and bags," said the insider. (radaronline.com)
Mexican authorities found them and brought them to nearby hospitals. (globalsecurity.org)
Although Mexican authorities say the family were likely victims of mistaken identity, family members say the gunmen knew exactly who they were targeting. (globalsecurity.org)
The majority of this funding package has gone toward security, especially in its first three years -including transferring U.S. military hardware and equipment to the Mexican government, providing police training, and assisting Mexican authorities with intelligence operations to capture cartel leaders and intercept drug trafficking, in addition to training Mexican immigration authorities. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
Mexican authorities said the mayor of Iguala, José Luis Abarca, ordered the brutal attack. (rt.com)
Federal authorities eventually arrested Mayor Abarca and his wife in Mexico City. (rt.com)
Mexican authorities says drug gang members have confessed to killing 43 students from a teachers college in the country's south and described a grisly disposal of the bodies - burning them on a pyre and then pulverizing teeth and bones to prevent the remains from being identified. (wypr.org)
The Los Angeles Times reported earlier this week that authorities believe Abarca and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda, "ordered local police to intercept and do away with the students, from a rural college for the poor, who were en route to Iguala and might have planned to disrupt a party and speech by Pineda. (wypr.org)
DOCTOR GONZALEZ, Mexico - DOCTOR GONZALEZ, Mexico (AP) - Mexican authorities have arrested an alleged trafficker known as "The Tiger" who they say shipped a half-ton of drugs to the U.S. each month and may have been poised to take over for a dead capo in the Sinaloa cartel. (foxnews.com)
Mexican authorities searched their side of the border, but no arrests have been made. (cbc.ca)
The seven hours Mr. Guzmán spent with Mr. Penn, and the follow-up interviews by phone and video, which began in October while he was on the run from the Mexican and American authorities, marked another surreal turn in his long-running battle to evade Mexican and American authorities. (godlikeproductions.com)
Mr. Guzmán, one of the world s most wanted fugitives, who had twice escaped jail, was captured in his home state of Sinaloa in northwest Mexico on Friday after a gun battle with the authorities. (godlikeproductions.com)

Despite constant claims by Mexican officials about improving security conditions, Mexico continues to see an ongoing escalation of violence. (breitbart.com)
Since 2015, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control has sanctioned more than 100 businesses and people for providing support to Oseguera Cervantes and his brother-in-law, Abigael Gonzalez Valencia, who American officials say is the leader of another drug trafficking group, Los Cuinis. (latimes.com)
The sanctioned businesses, which were suspected of being used to launder the organizations' drug proceeds, include shopping centers, a luxury coastal hotel, a music promotion company and a Mexico City newspaper, U.S. officials said. (latimes.com)
According to Mexican officials, such attacks are often not reported. (labornotes.org)
But Wednesday, officials from multiple American and Mexican agencies announced a new focus for the war on drugs. (scrippsnews.com)
Federal officials say the crop does not seem to be tied to Mexico. (kpbs.org)
The government of President Fox began its term with a series of pronouncements from high officials that suggested Mexico was rethinking its endless, US-inspired war on drugs, but Fox quickly fell into line with US drug war orthodoxy, especially after September 11, 2001. (stopthedrugwar.org)
Mexican officials found the catapult after it was abandoned. (cbc.ca)
MEXICO CITY - Mexican marines killed a leader of the Knights Templar drug cartel on Monday, three weeks after the cult-like gang's top chief was gunned down, officials said. (dailysabah.com)
Enrique "Kike" Plancarte was killed in the state of Queretaro in central Mexico, two government officials said on condition of anonymity. (dailysabah.com)
Mexican immigration officials have said that the surge of drug violence in north Mexico has caused a massive drop in undocumented Central American migrants traveling through the country to the U.S. (insightcrime.org)

How else do you react, when the sender (the 'Z' who claims to be ranged 'contra el mundo, or 'against the world') is Los Zetas, a spectacularly brutal Mexican drug cartel currently expanding its operations south through Central America? (independent.co.uk)
The Gulf Cartel's power has waned in recent years in a feud with Mexico's most brutal gang, the Zetas, which began life providing protection to the cartel's operations in northeastern Mexico. (newsmax.com)
The risky predicament of undocumented migrants was illustrated last August, when 72 Central Americans were allegedly murdered by the Zetas in San Fernando, Tamaulipas near the U.S.-Mexico border. (insightcrime.org)

Last week, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced that his administration would seek to revise the Merida Initiative, the $3 billion U.S. aid package that has largely funded Mexico's war on drugs. (worldpoliticsreview.com)

By the mid-1980s, the organizations from Mexico were well-established and reliable transporters of Colombian cocaine. (wikipedia.org)
Murders by drug organizations and deaths in battles with police and army troops in 2008 are running ahead of the 2,500 who perished last year. (thenation.com)
The production of marijuana and heroin in Mexico through the 1960s and 1970s was the province of small-time operators, many of them family-type organizations, which could move drugs across a laxly policed U.S.-Mexico border without much risk of capture. (foreignpolicy.com)
They are living in a part of rural Mexico that is under dispute by criminal organizations" near the U.S. border with its important trafficking corridors. (globalsecurity.org)
According to the DEA, Mexican drug trafficking organizations pose the biggest crime threat to the U.S. (scrippsnews.com)
Since then, the Mexican government has pursued drug trafficking organizations remorselessly, managing to disrupt several. (stopthedrugwar.org)
But the net result has been more violence as drug organizations seek to reconstitute themselves, and no diminution of the flow of drugs north into the US. (stopthedrugwar.org)
And that's how it goes in Mexico, where successive governments have effectively accommodated themselves to a business that nets between $3 billion and $30 billion a year for the drug organizations, according to estimates cited by AP. (stopthedrugwar.org)

In the 1960s and 1970s, Mexico was part of both Operation Intercept and Operation Condor, developed between 1975 and 1978, with the pretext to fight against the cultivation of opium and marijuana in the "Golden Triangle", particularly in Sinaloa. (wikipedia.org)

McALLEN, Texas - A Mexican man who had been residing in Pasadena has been ordered to prison for importing methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin into the United States from Mexico, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. (justice.gov)
Agents seized numerous bricks of drugs weighing approximately 18 kilograms of methamphetamine, four kilograms of cocaine and three kilograms of heroin. (justice.gov)
General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, Secretary of National Defense in Mexico from 2012 to 2018, has been indicted on four counts, including international heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana manufacture and distribution conspiracy, importation and distribution conspiracies, and conspiracy to launder narcotics proceeds, according to the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. (wral.com)
The defendant abused that public position to help the H-2 Cartel, an extremely violent Mexican drug trafficking organization, traffic thousands of kilograms of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana into the United States, including New York City,' federal prosecutors said in a letter supporting a motion for a permanent order of detention against the defendant. (wral.com)
we talk about "legalizing drugs" and the problem of las drogas , as if heroin, cocaine, and marijuana were a fundamentally different category of substance than Xanax, Vicodin, or whatever pill we might take to help us sleep at night. (nacla.org)
Ultimately this kind of thinking leads people to believe that marijuana "makes you lazy" or, a century ago, that marijuana made you violent or mad, or that heroin is almost magically addictive, and these beliefs wind up having a certain element of self-fulfilling prophecy when people actually use the drugs. (nacla.org)
Heroin is an illegal, very addictive opioid drug . (medlineplus.gov)
All heroin users are at risk of an overdose because they never know the actual strength of the drug they are taking or what may have been added to it. (medlineplus.gov)
And people often use heroin along with other drugs or alcohol. (medlineplus.gov)

The Drug Enforcement Administration described Caro Quintero as fugitive from the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on felony murder and kidnapping charges, in addition to other criminal charges. (cnn.com)
Caro-Quintero has been captured by Mexican forces nearly a decade after walking out of a Mexican prison and returning to drug trafficking, an official with Mexico's navy confirmed Friday, July 15, 2022. (10news.com)
Caro Quintero walked free in 2013 after 28 years in prison when a court overturned his 40-year sentence for the 1985 kidnapping and killing of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena. (10news.com)
FBI's most wanted Caro Quintero, arrested in Mexico: Could face extradition to the U.S. (marca.com)

Other bodies bearing the hallmarks of execution-style killings were found in Tijuana, Veracruz, Sinaloa, Michoacan and in Mexico City, reports said. (bbc.co.uk)
In January, Mexico's new President Felipe Calderon sent more than 3,000 soldiers to the northern border city of Tijuana to help fight drug trafficking and gang violence. (bbc.co.uk)
Cities on the Mexican-American border such as Ciudad Juarez and Tijuana have become so dangerous that the US ambassador has warned tourists to stay out of the entire region. (thenation.com)
We conducted a cross-sectional study to describe cigarette smoking behavior and quit attempts among IDUs in Tijuana, Mexico. (who.int)
In 2018, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) San Diego Quarantine Station, was notified about an elderly patient with drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), who needed to complete treatment, but had left the United States to visit family in Tijuana, Mexico, just on the other side of the US land border. (cdc.gov)

Analysts estimate that wholesale earnings from illicit drug sales range from $13.6 to $49.4 billion annually. (wikipedia.org)
Worse, U.S. efforts to make moving drugs across the border more difficult might be having the opposite effect: consolidating the illicit drug business into fewer and fewer hands and making the surviving heavyweights more difficult to defeat. (foreignpolicy.com)
States should be vigilant about the possibility of highly toxic fentanyl-related compounds becoming available in the illicit drug market, as well as other highly toxic synthetic opioid derivatives, such as U47700 [2,12]. (cdc.gov)
Finally, drug submissions testing positive for a synthetic illicit opioid known as U-47700, first encountered by the DEA in 2016, increased from 533 submissions in 2016 to 1,087 during January-June, 2017 [1,2]. (cdc.gov)

Mario Cardenas was captured in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas on Monday by Mexican marines, a source told Reuters. (newsmax.com)

On August 9, a Mexican federal court overturned Caro Quintero's conviction, ruling that he had been incorrectly tried in the country's federal judicial system, when he should have been tried at the state level. (cnn.com)
But this weekend, drug violence in Coban and across the country will nonetheless be front and centre of the country's presidential election. (independent.co.uk)
Mexico City (CNN) -- A judge convicted 13 members of the Mexican military of crimes connected with trafficking cocaine and methamphetamine while on duty, the country's defense secretary said in a statement. (cnn.com)
Mexico's drug policies could be in for some sweeping changes, and with them the country's relations with the United States. (worldpoliticsreview.com)

Near the end of the 1960s, Mexicans started to smuggle drugs on a major scale. (wikipedia.org)

With more than 60,000 victims, politicians are analysing the impact of new US marijuana laws on Mexico's war on drugs. (aljazeera.com)
Nieto has cited new marijuana laws in the US states of Colorado and Washington as further evidence that Mexico needs to rethink its drug war policy. (aljazeera.com)
We do think that losing marijuana revenues could have a transformative impact on the Mexican drug trafficking industry, over and beyond the direct potential reduction of marijuana export income. (aljazeera.com)
A study carried out in 2010 by RAND Corporation, a global policy think-tank, found that about 20 percent of drug gang revenue comes from trafficking marijuana. (aljazeera.com)
Beau Kilmer, the author of that study, says in order for marijuana legalisation to have any kind of substantive impact on Mexican drug gang revenues it requires making a lot of different assumptions about what's actually going to happen in Colorado and Washington. (aljazeera.com)
Despite those comments, Jonathan Caulkins, a professor at Carnegie Melon University and expert on the drug trade, says it's unlikely the Nieto administration will make significant reforms in its drug war policy as a result of US marijuana policy. (aljazeera.com)
By most measures the majority of the drug problem in both the US and Mexico does not relate to marijuana, so nothing you're going to do with marijuana is very likely to decisively change the character of the overall drug policy situation. (aljazeera.com)
In order to better understand the forces behind drug prohibition in Mexico, NACLA spoke with Campos, who discussed his NACLA article, his forthcoming book, and his experience covering marijuana, prohibition, and drug culture in Mexico and the United States. (nacla.org)
U.S. Border Patrol agents say they seized more than 30 cans - each filled with 2.5 lbs of marijuana -that were launched from Mexico into Arizona. (cbc.ca)

AMLO defended the armed forces, calling them 'incorruptible' and 'pillars of the Mexican state' while blaming former administrations of what he called the 'neoliberal period' when tens of thousands of Mexicans were killed in drug-related violence and cartel warfare. (wral.com)
This long history of drug prohibition in Mexico is little-known, and yet key to understanding the Mexican "War on Drugs" that has cost over 40,000 Mexicans their lives since 2006. (nacla.org)
when in truth it's in the interest of both Mexicans and the people of the United States to radically reform our approach to drugs. (nacla.org)

Mexican bootleggers supplied alcohol to the United States' gangsters throughout Prohibition in the United States, and the onset of the illegal drug trade with the U.S. began when prohibition came to an end in 1933. (wikipedia.org)
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Beginning now, said Estrada, all officers on the force will have to submit to drug, alcohol, and lie detector tests. (stopthedrugwar.org)

Vasconcelos also accused Montiel of protecting the Juarez cartel, a leading Mexican drug organization. (stopthedrugwar.org)
In June 2013, Marcela Turati, a journalist for the Mexican weekly publication Proceso, asked at a conference organized by the grassroots organization Investigative Reporters and Editors: "How can we say that journalism is possible in a place like this? (globaljournalist.org)

The former leader of the Guadalajara cartel had since returned to drug trafficking and unleashed bloody turf battles in the northern Mexico border state of Sonora. (10news.com)

In Mexico City a couple of days ago, 150,000 people came together in the Zocalo in conjunction with hundreds of thousands of others who did the same in all of Mexico's thirty-two states. (thenation.com)
Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, gestures during a meeting with victims of violence Thursday in Mexico City. (nbcnews.com)
Mexican poet and peace activist Javier Sicilia waves during a meeting of victims of violence with the President of Mexico, Felipe Calderon and some of his cabinet members in Mexico City, Thursday June 23, 2011. (nbcnews.com)
Sicilia has organized what he calls a civil disobedience movement for peace, leading protests in Mexico City and the nearby city of Cuernavaca and a caravan to the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, where Calderon also had an emotional meeting last year with relatives of youths killed when gunmen burst into a party and opened fire. (nbcnews.com)
He was paraded in front of the media in Mexico City on Tuesday. (newsmax.com)
Hundreds marched through Mexico City to keep their story alive. (euronews.com)
A reporter interviewed a Mexican woman in one northern town: "Everything's stopped," said María Luz Hopkins, a 69-year-old retiree in Tubutama, south of the Arizona border city of Nogales. (labornotes.org)
The U.S. embassy in Mexico City revolves around the Initiative-in fact, the Merida initiative plaque pictured here, is the first thing you see when you salk into the offices. (americas.org)
Just days before Ebrard's remarks, five U.S. senators arrived in Mexico City to discuss "reorientation" of binational security policy within the framework of the Merida Initiative. (americas.org)
Police in Mexico pulled over four men in a pickup truck near the city of Salamanca in Guanajuato state on October 20 and got a nasty surprise . (vice.com)
Mexico's Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam addresses a news conference in Mexico City on Friday. (wypr.org)
Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam, speaking at a news conference in Mexico City on Friday, played a video purporting to be three gang members confessing to the killings, The Associated Press reports. (wypr.org)
Pictures of the detainees for the case of missing students are seen displayed on a television screen during a news conference at the Attorney General's Office building in Mexico City on Friday. (wypr.org)
The Mexico City newspaper El Universal reported on Monday that two witnesses in the Montiel case had implicated Estrada, elected under the banner of President Vicente Fox's National Action Party. (stopthedrugwar.org)
Buying fresh chicken in the Mexican city of Chilpancingo proved almost impossible this week. (insightcrime.org)

In the agency's annual threat assessment, released this month, the DEA said the Jalisco New Generation cartel is one of two dominant drug trafficking groups in Mexico, along with the Sinaloa cartel formerly led by Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán. (latimes.com)
How Will Ovidio's Arrest in Mexico Affect Sinaloa Cartel and the Fentanyl Trade? (insightcrime.org)

Now they say they're going to stop them from Mexico and then hit them in Central America. (truthout.org)

In 2014, another top cartel boss named Rogelio "El Keli or Z-2" Gonzalez Pizana was quietly released from a Mexican federal prison after being cleared of various drug trafficking and organized charges even though he had been convicted and was serving a 16-year-sentence. (breitbart.com)
Quintero spent 28 years in a Mexican prison over the 1985 murder but was released in 2013 , a decision that would straing Mexico's relationship with the US. (marca.com)

Barack Obama's drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske, once said that he wanted to retire the phrase 'war on drugs. (foreignpolicy.com)
According to Mexican drug czar Jose Vasconcelos, Montiel headed a smuggling operation where Colombian cocaine shipments landed at the Cuernavaca airport and were driven to a neighboring Mexico state in police cars. (stopthedrugwar.org)

She covered breaking news and feature stories on California-Mexico border issues and immigration, for local and national broadcast. (kpbs.org)
In the presidential election campaign, immigration is certainly going to be one of the important issues-and most people mean immigration from Mexico and Latin America when they talk about the issue. (truthout.org)
The following year, the Bush's Administration invested $1.9 billion to train Mexican security forces and control the clandestine immigration, often tied with drug trafficking. (globaljournalist.org)

In a press conference May 9, Lopez Obrador, widely known in Mexico as AMLO, said his administration does not "want aid for the use of force, we want aid for development. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
It is a very regrettable fact that a former defense secretary is detained, accused of drug trafficking,' Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, commonly known as AMLO, said during his daily press briefing on Friday. (wral.com)
The Post interview is at least the fifth time that someone in the AMLO government has declared the death of the Merida Initiative, which is the name of the U.S. government's strategy for political and economic support of the drug war in Mexico. (americas.org)
in 2018, although U.S. Embassy personnel under Trump openly opposed the candidacy of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his promise the end the drug war, AMLO did not change the strategy and business as usual continued. (americas.org)
The arrest comes days after Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ( AMLO ) and POTUS Joe Biden met in person at the White House. (marca.com)

When the Mexican military began to intervene in 2006, the government's main objective was to reduce drug-related violence. (wikipedia.org)
Last year, more than 2,000 people died in drug cartel-related violence - some of the victims were tortured or beheaded. (bbc.co.uk)
Mexico is at war, and the drug violence in February alone has flared all across the country. (npr.org)
Mexico is at war, and the drug violence this month alone has flared all across the country. (npr.org)
Last year, according to a tally by the newspaper El Universal, 5,630 people were killed in Mexico in drug-related violence. (npr.org)
Drug-related violence tearing Mexican society apart. (thenation.com)
Iluminemos Mexico," as these vast, silent, candle-bearing masses called their manifestation, was staged to protest the drug-connected murders and kidnappings that are threatening to destroy civic life as law, order, safety and liberty are under threat of being extirpated by violence. (thenation.com)
Poet Javier Sicilia, who lost his son to drug violence in March, opened the publicly televised exchange by demanding that Calderon take the military off the streets and apologize to victims for a failed strategy that he and others say have caused more than 35,000 deaths since Calderon took office in late 2006. (nbcnews.com)
Sicilia asked Calderon, ticking off a list of cases where people have gone unpunished, from drug violence to a 2009 day-care fire that killed 49 children. (nbcnews.com)
Previous marches organized by other victims-rights groups in Mexico have drawn more protesters, and violence has only increased. (nbcnews.com)
The sad truth is these are not the missing students, but some of the thousands of other victims of Mexico's drug-related violence. (euronews.com)
The Washington Post reports that "with alarming frequency, narcotics violence is spilling into hospitals and clinics across Mexico. (labornotes.org)
A former Mexican defense minister was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport on drug and money laundering charges, accused of taking bribes in exchange for permitting a cartel known for wholesale violence to operate with impunity in Mexico, federal prosecutors said Friday. (wral.com)
In exchange for bribe payments, he permitted the H-2 Cartel - a cartel that routinely engaged in wholesale violence, including torture and murder - to operate with impunity in Mexico. (wral.com)
The Mexican military intervened in 2006, as violence escalated across the state. (rt.com)
US drug legislation to slow Mexico violence? (aljazeera.com)
Caulkins says it's more likely the Nieto administration is concerned about the violence as a result of the trafficking as opposed to which drug is being trafficked. (aljazeera.com)
Can you explain the "cult of pharmacology" and the way drugs are associated with madness and violence in the United States and Mexico? (nacla.org)
Results show that violence and insecurity generated by drug trafficking has encouraged the young people to avoid consumption of illegal drugs, or opt for easily accessible drugs to cope with the constant attempts by members of organized crime to recruit them. (bvsalud.org)

President Felipe Calderón's drug war-with a total of 31,000 deaths since December 2006-has wreaked havoc on Mexican workers, their communities, and even their workplaces. (labornotes.org)
The war on drugs in Mexico has resulted in over 3,000 deaths in 2010 alone, and over 30,000 deaths since 2007 -- more than the number of fatalities suffered by U.S. troops in the war in Iraq. (neontommy.com)

According to ICE records, Tapia had been previously removed to Mexico nine times between 2012 and 2019. (ice.gov)

In July 2016, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued a nationwide report indicating that hundreds of thousands of counterfeit pills have been entering the U.S. drug market since 2014, some containing deadly amounts of fentanyl and fentanyl analogs [2]. (cdc.gov)
From 2014 to 2015 the number of drug submissions testing positive for acetyl fentanyl increased substantially, rising from 463 in 2014 to 1,870 in 2015[9,10,11], and in 2016, NFLIS reported increasing drug submissions testing positive for furanyl fentanyl (244 drug submissions from January to July 2016) [9]. (cdc.gov)
The Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) National Forensic Laboratory Information System (NFLIS), which systematically collects drug identification results from drug cases submitted for analysis to forensic laboratories (referred to as drug submissions), estimated that drug submissions testing positive for fentanyl more than doubled from 2015 to 2016, rising from 14,440 to 34,119. (cdc.gov)
In 2016, states reporting the highest number of fentanyl drug submissions remained concentrated in the East and Midwest, with all being located east of the Mississippi River, or bordering the Mississippi River. (cdc.gov)
Carfentanil drug submissions reported to NFLIS rapidly increased from an estimated 1,251 in 2016 to 2,268 during the first six months of 2017 (see table below) [2, 3]. (cdc.gov)
In 2016, a total of 11 states reported carfentanil drug submissions, including Ohio with more than 900 reports and Florida with more than 100 reports. (cdc.gov)

The government says police intercepted the students on their way to Iguala and handed them over to a local drugs gang. (euronews.com)
The protesters targeted the embassy in Mayfair on the anniversary of a brutal police massacre in the Mexican town of Iguala. (rt.com)
The mass disappearance of the Mexican students near Iguala in 2014 provoked outrage worldwide, with human rights campaigners calling upon the Mexican government to address the situation. (rt.com)

The move follows the model of army involvement in the drug wars first used by Mexican president Felipe Calderon, who involved the national Mexican army in the "War on Drugs" a mere ten days after assuming office in 2006. (neontommy.com)

The promise of a wall along the US-Mexico border was one of President Trump's election promises during his campaign. (yahoo.com)

The capture of Mexico's drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman won't end the drug war. (kcrw.com)
Garcia Luna, who was arrested by federal agents in Dallas, Texas, last December, was charged in a drug trafficking conspiracy that involved receiving millions of dollars in bribes from imprisoned drug cartel kingpin Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, according to federal prosecutors. (wral.com)
Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, started out in business not long after turning 6, selling oranges and soft drinks. (godlikeproductions.com)
100,000,000 dollars: the bounty that Mexican drug lord El Chapo has placed on Trump's death! (godlikeproductions.com)

Organochlorine pesticides and phthalates in samples of rice and soil from Piedras Negras, Veracruz (Mexico). (cdc.gov)

Brittany Greenquist, "If You Eat Avacados, You're Probably Funding Mexican Drug Lords. (projectcensored.org)
RYOT News, November 18, 2013, http://www.ryot.org/if-you-eat-avocados-yours-probably-funding-mexican-drug-lords/473081 . (projectcensored.org)
He was also on a US Treasury list of drug lords under sanctions. (dailysabah.com)

It may have already started, depending how you interpret the rising tide of drug gang gunplay on this side of the border. (thenation.com)
But on the U.S.-Mexico border, where the drug war is less metaphorical, the United States remains an enthusiastic ally -- and the Obama administration has gone to great lengths to show it. (foreignpolicy.com)
As the United States stepped up its enforcement efforts at key transshipment points - the Caribbean and the U.S.-Mexico border - and paid its Latin American drug war allies to do the same elsewhere, moving product into the United States became more difficult. (foreignpolicy.com)
An estimated 30 percent of drugs en route to the United States are now seized before they reach the border. (foreignpolicy.com)
Donald Trump's famous wall along the US-Mexico border will have to be transparent to help passers-by avoid being hit by bags of drugs, the US President has told reporters. (yahoo.com)
Look, there's no better place for solar than the Mexico border-the southern border. (yahoo.com)
But this year, with an economic recession, drug war, and tougher border enforcement, fewer cars are rolling through with less bounty to unload. (csmonitor.com)
She won the Sol Price Prize for Responsible Journalism in 2009 from the Society of Professional Journalists for her story about high school students smuggling people and drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border. (kpbs.org)
And the United States, there doesn't seem to be a serious effort to get rid of drugs, 'cause, I mean, every professional in the field says if you're really serious about limiting demand on the American side of the border, you actually go not maybe to full legalization, but you treat it as a medical problem and you attack it from that angle. (truthout.org)
The war on drugs allows the U.S., now that there is not a lot of leftist political activity in the Americas south of the border, except in Colombia, where there's FARC-but FARC has been pretty much stabilized, and probably there's a number of tacit agreements between the Colombian government and FARC, so that it controls a swath of Colombian territory but is not really threatening the Colombian government anymore. (truthout.org)
Two other small-town mayors in northeastern Mexico have been killed in the last month and at least seven have been slain in border states this year. (foxnews.com)
Smugglers in Mexico are now literally shooting drugs across the American border with cannons . (cbc.ca)
As crazy as all this sounds, smugglers have tried some pretty bizarre stuff in the past to get drugs into the U.S. - mainly to avoid having to go through a border checkpoint. (cbc.ca)
In October, two smugglers to drive a jeep full of drugs over the border fence by using a makeshift ramp. (cbc.ca)
The men managed to take off with the drugs before U.S. border officers showed up. (cbc.ca)
You know, as we continue to tighten the border more and more, they'll find every method they can explore to get their drug loads over," Agent Estes said. (cbc.ca)
The Multiple Cause of Death database for the U.S. - Mexico Border Area contains mortality and population counts for the four border states of Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas. (cdc.gov)
To simplify the Border region analysis, two mutually exclusive regions within the United States are available: 1) U.S. - Mexico Border Region (i.e., 44 counties within 100 kilometers (62 miles) of the U.S. - Mexico border), and 2) the U.S. Non-Border Region with the remaining counties of the selected four border states. (cdc.gov)
Statistics are also available by each of the USA border counties along the U.S. - Mexico border. (cdc.gov)
The pesticide surveillance work led to a pilot project to survey farm workers in the border region of New Mexico on their experiences, training, knowledge, and attitudes towards pesticide use on farm s where they work. (cdc.gov)

The bulk of the killings were in the northern state of Chihuahua bordering Texas and New Mexico. (npr.org)

U.S. news outlets appear to have forgotten that the Juarez Cartel and multiple acts of corruption have been linked to the election of the current Mexican President, Enrique Peña Nieto. (breitbart.com)
Those journalists have been under criticism by the Mexican government after discovering the cartel finance link, as well as the fact that Peña Nieto had received properties as bribes from government contractors. (breitbart.com)
In his first month as Mexico's new President, Enrique Pena Nieto has promised a different strategy to fight the so-called war on drugs. (aljazeera.com)
When elected in December 2012, President Enrique Peña Nieto argued he would use different methods to tackle the drug issue in the country, with public safety as primary preoccupation. (globaljournalist.org)

New York, February 20, 2002 -The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is alarmed at subpoenas recently served to several Mexican and American journalists. (cpj.org)
Since 2006, 56 journalists were killed in connection to the war on drugs, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported. (globaljournalist.org)

Due to its location, Mexico has long been used as a staging and transshipment point for narcotics and contraband between Latin America and U.S. markets. (wikipedia.org)

Three officers and 10 troops were convicted of drug and organized crime charges for their involvement in the transport of 928 kilograms of methamphetamine and 30 kilograms of cocaine, the statement said. (cnn.com)
This study aimed to understand the experience of young men and women with drug trafficking and the impact on drug use, involvement in criminal groups and insecurity. (bvsalud.org)

Since 2006, the drug cartel wars have taken more than 6,000 lives, including hundreds of police officers and soldiers. (thenation.com)
The campaigners called upon the British government to stop its arms sales to Mexico, as allegations of torture committed by the state's police and armed forces mount. (rt.com)
On September 26 2014, Mexican police ambushed a fleet of buses carrying students who were making their way to a protest in the town. (rt.com)
"The war raging in Mexico is one of the deadliest in the world, and the use of torture is widespread among Mexico's police and armed forces," he said. (rt.com)
Mexico's drug wars are some of the bloodiest in the world, and torture is widespread among Mexico's armed forces and police. (rt.com)
Six students were killed in the Sept. 26 police assault and 43 others were allegedly handed over to members of the Guerreros Unidos drug gang. (wypr.org)
Sergio Estrada, the governor of the central Mexican state of Morelos, ordered the suspension of all 552 detectives on the state police force Monday, the Associated Press reported. (stopthedrugwar.org)
One witness, arrested drug smuggler Marco Yepez, told El Universal Estrada was getting payoffs from the Juarez cartel, while former police officer Idelfonso Ortiz reported that Estrada was romantically linked to the daughter of a high cartel figure. (stopthedrugwar.org)
Police said Soto Reyes allegedly traded in synthetic drugs on routes established by former Sinaloa leader Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel, who was killed in a gunbattle with soldiers in July. (foxnews.com)
Lopez Alvarez, a former Mexican police officer, claimed that Quintero was responsible for killing Camarena before taking the statement back months later. (marca.com)

Spanish: Guerra contra el narco) is an ongoing asymmetric low-intensity conflict between the Mexican government and various drug trafficking syndicates, who variously fight amongst each other. (wikipedia.org)
Therefore, the conflict has been described as a Mexican theater of the global war on drugs, as led by the United States federal government. (wikipedia.org)
It's the typical way the Mexican government has worked for decades," said John Ackerman of the legal research institute at Mexico's National Autonomous University. (nbcnews.com)
Cardenas has helped run the cartel since his brother Antonio Cardenas, known as "Tony Tormenta," was killed in a 2010 gunfight with the Mexican government. (newsmax.com)
I thanked him for his willingness to support us, and informed him that the institutions of the government of Mexico will act to ensure justice is done," the Mexican president tweeted. (globalsecurity.org)
Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from the Utah territory originally went into Mexico in the 1880s at the height of a federal government crackdown on polygamy," according to University of Utah's Mormon Studies professor W. Paul Reeve. (globalsecurity.org)
The announcement came shortly after the Mexican government released a National Development Plan for the next five years that proposes decriminalizing all drugs in Mexico. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
However, this did not prevent the UK government from inviting Mexico to shop for weapons at one of the world's largest arms fairs earlier this month. (rt.com)
The program has greatly benefited the U.S. government by increasing its level of direct intervention in Mexican security. (americas.org)
Historically in Mexico, the government has worked not to suppress the drug trade but to manage it. (stopthedrugwar.org)
And just the other day, she compiled new statistics put out by the Mexican government that more than 80,000 people have died since Calderón, Felipe Calderón, who is the outgoing president, started the U.S.-led, reinvigorated war on drugs in 2006. (truthout.org)

Also Saturday, an army base near Monterrey reported that soldiers came under fire when they went to look into a tip that a local ranch had been taken over by members of a drug gang Friday. (foxnews.com)

The drug lord had been convicted of drug charges and the murder of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Enrique Camarena. (breitbart.com)
A former Mexican policeman, Oseguera Cervantes is one of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's most wanted fugitives and the subject of a $10-million bounty. (latimes.com)
At the beginning of the pandemic, the wholesale price of methamphetamine in Los Angeles soared from $900 to $1,800 a pound, a drug enforcement official said. (latimes.com)
However, military spending on the anti-crime initiative did not end and was instead, in a political sleight of hand, transferred to the Defense Department budget as International Narcotics and Law Enforcement in the State Department put on the public face of the drug war. (americas.org)

At the time the articles were published, Schulz was working on a book about links between the drug trade and Mexican politicians. (cpj.org)
The close alliance between the U.S. and Mexican militaries has clearly supported Mexican politicians and elites who fear social uprising. (americas.org)

2,682 people have been killed in the drug war this year, including elderly bystanders, schoolchildren and pregnant women, according to a tally by a newspaper, El Universal . (thenation.com)
As horrible as it sounds, when they throw the large sacks of drugs over, and if you have people on the other side of the wall, you don't see them-they hit you on the head with 60 pounds of stuff? (yahoo.com)
Bill Bodner, the special agent who leads the DEA's Los Angeles Field Division, said in a statement that Oseguera Gonzalez's conviction on Office of Foreign Asset Control violations shows the agency was prepared to use "all the investigative tools available" to apply pressure on people and businesses who facilitate drug trafficking operations. (latimes.com)
My takeaway is the war on drugs is really for, one, domestic consumption, and two, a lot of people are dying. (truthout.org)
Molly Molloy, who is a librarian at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces has been someone who's actually tallied the people that died as a result of the drug war as best she can. (truthout.org)
This is the reason why people buy Mexican drugs all the time. (druglibrary.org)
People who inject the drug also risk getting infectious diseases such as HIV , hepatitis , and bacterial infections of the skin, bloodstream, and heart ( endocarditis ). (medlineplus.gov)

Transporters from Mexico usually were given 35% to 50% of each cocaine shipment. (wikipedia.org)
But the cocaine epidemic and the advent of the U.S.-led 'war on drugs' changed the nature of the business. (foreignpolicy.com)
CINCINNATI -A Mexican national was charged Oct. 23, in a three-count superseding indictment with intent to distribute cocaine and more than 400 grams of fentanyl, as well as illegally reentering the United States after having been previously deported. (ice.gov)

It said officers seized drugs, weapons and cash during the arrests of Soto Reyes and his alleged accomplices. (foxnews.com)

NFLIS has reported that the overall supply of illicitly manufactured fentanyl appears to have substantially increased from 2014 to 2015, with the number of drug submissions testing positive for illicitly manufactured fentanyl doubling during this period (from 5,343 to 13,882). (cdc.gov)

Breitbart Texas has reported about Mexico's Secretary of the Interior claiming that Mexico's security conditions were the best they had been in a decade, while rival cartel factions fought for control of lucrative drug territories. (breitbart.com)
The drug cartel members apparently mistook the victims' SUVs for those of a rival drug gang, the Mexican security minister believes. (globalsecurity.org)

The brutal murder marked a low point in U.S.-Mexico relations. (10news.com)

One of the most concrete demands from his group is for a memorial that names all drug war victims. (nbcnews.com)

In short order, Coban found itself on the front line of a spiralling drug war which has now doubled Guatemala's murder rate to five times the global average. (independent.co.uk)
Quintero has long been linked to the 1985 torture and murder of DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena in Guadalajara, Mexico. (marca.com)

Other fentanyl-related compounds have been reported by the DEA National Forensic Laboratory Information System (NFLIS), which systematically collects drug identification results from drug cases submitted for analysis to forensic laboratories (referred to as drug submissions). (cdc.gov)

As I mention in my piece, Mexico routinely protests drug reform movements in the United States. (nacla.org)

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