• The list of drug lords is grouped by their drug cartels. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Colombia comparison, long fodder for parlor debates in Mexico, gained new energy this month when Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the tactics of Mexican cartels looked increasingly like those of a Colombia-style "insurgency," which the U.S. helped fight with a military and social assistance program known as Plan Colombia that cost more than $7 billion. (latimes.com)
  • Separately, the country faced a campaign of violence by drug cartels. (latimes.com)
  • Several drug trafficking charges related to drug cartels prohibit a person from being released under the First Step Act, but Oseguera Gonzalez's charges do not fall under this list. (valleycentral.com)
  • Drug cartels in Mexico are penetrating the avocado sector for serious profit and money laundering. (projectcensored.org)
  • The drug cartels have killed over 9 million people since President Calderon took office in 2006. (justiceinmexico.org)
  • The Calderon's administration is putting in a big effort to crackdown on the drug cartels in Mexico. (justiceinmexico.org)
  • Felix Gallardo's criminal organization, powerful in the 1980s, is considered the forefather of modern Mexican drug cartels. (punchng.com)
  • As one of the founding members of Mexico's Guadalajara Cartel, Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo spent years working with Colombian cartels to capitalize on the burgeoning cocaine trade that saw the drug circulate across the United States for years. (grunge.com)
  • We sent Suroosh Alvi to Mexico to meet the drug cartels that are now stealing the country's oil. (vice.com)
  • The proposal to use money confiscated from Guzman and other drug cartels appeared to be welcomed by officials in Mexico when it was mooted earlier this year by White House officials. (ibtimes.co.uk)
  • The killing of Moreno - if he is really dead this time - is another high-profile victory in the drug war for the administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto, who took office in December 2012 promising to fight the cartels in a smarter and more efficient manner. (kcur.org)
  • Drug cartels and gangs are challenging state authority in Mexico and Central America. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • This power-counterpower struggle erodes state legitimacy and solvency and confers both economic and political power on the cartels and gangs. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • The resulting Mexican drug war is an internal conflict punctuated by hyper-violence, corruption and impunity as the cartels fight for control of the plazas (lucrative transshipment nodes and routes). (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • The onslaught from organized crime (cartels and gangs) challenges and erodes state capacity to govern, negates the rule of law through endemic impunity, and drives humanitarian crises through high-intensity violence and barbarization. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • But Mike Vigil, a former chief of international operations for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration who worked undercover in Mexico, called the violence "a massive black eye to the Mexican government" and a "sign that the cartels are more powerful" than it is. (cbsnews.com)
  • On 8 January 2016, Mexican Marines captured Joaquín Guzmán Loera after a heavy firefight in the city of Los Mochis, Sinaloa, bringing the total captured or killed to 33. (wikipedia.org)
  • 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)
  • Delgado has asked for better cell conditions for the former Sinaloa drug cartel leader in the maximum-security prison in the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua where he is currently being held. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • His father, who was one of the founders of the Sinaloa drugs cartel, is serving a life sentence in Colorado. (yahoo.com)
  • Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents say the Sinaloa drugs cartel is the source of much of the illicit fentanyl smuggled into the US. (yahoo.com)
  • The violence unleashed by members of the Sinaloa cartel in the wake of his arrest was such that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador ordered his release to avoid more bloodshed. (yahoo.com)
  • He was rearrested in January in a huge security operation which saw him transported from Sinaloa to Mexico City in a helicopter out of fear that Sinaloa men could try to spring him from a prison van. (yahoo.com)
  • MEXICO CITY (AP) - Drug lord Hector "El Guero" Palma, one of the founders of the Sinaloa Cartel, returned to his native Mexico after serving almost a decade in a U.S. prison and was immediately transported to another maximum-security lockup where he will await trial on two murders. (wkbw.com)
  • The drug lord was flown to Mexico City late Wednesday and then transported to the Altiplano prison outside the capital, the same prison that Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman escaped from in 2015. (wkbw.com)
  • Some experts believed that Palma could have returned to drug trafficking if allowed to walk free, but would have faced a world that has changed since he helped Guzman found the Sinaloa cartel in the early 1990s. (wkbw.com)
  • The company has activities in several countries across the world, but its primary focus is on the Mexican states of Sinaloa, Baja California, Durango, Sonora, and Chihuahua, as well as the United States. (shop-progreso.com)
  • About 20 police patrol vehicles were deployed in Culiacan, the capital of northern Sinaloa state on Sunday, to stop the march in support of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, but many of the supporters refused orders to disperse. (aljazeera.com)
  • The eventual drug lord was born at a ranch in the northwestern Mexico state of Sinaloa. (grunge.com)
  • The crucial turning point was his eventual position as a bodyguard for Sinaloa Governor Leopoldo Sánchez Celis, which introduced him to fellow bodyguard and known drug smuggler Pedro Áviles Pérez. (grunge.com)
  • Mexican security analyst Alejandro Hope said it created 'something of a civil war within the Sinaloa cartel' that has essentially ended with the arrest of internal rivals and allowed his sons to take control of what remains a 'weakened' but far-from-finished smuggling operation. (fox5ny.com)
  • Mexican security forces surrounded a group of heavily armed members of the Sinaloa cartel. (capeandislands.org)
  • But as he spoke, Sinaloa state burned. (capeandislands.org)
  • A Mexican drugs lord who is on the US most wanted list has been arrested in the western Sinaloa state, said the Mexican military. (theweek.com)
  • Coronel was sentenced to three years in prison in 2021 after pleading guilty to three counts of helping the Sinaloa drug cartel. (aljazeera.com)
  • The US-born 34-year-old was arrested in 2021 on drug trafficking charges and sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to helping the Sinaloa drug cartel. (aljazeera.com)
  • Mexican authorities said they backed off an attempt to capture a son of drug trafficker Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán after cartel gunmen shooting heavy weapons paralyzed the capital of Mexico's Sinaloa state and outgunned lawmen. (cbsnews.com)
  • Men look at burnt vehicles after heavily armed gunmen waged an all-out battle against Mexican security forces in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico, on October 18, 2019. (cbsnews.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)
  • The Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman claims a prison guard is sexually harassing him during daily inspections, his lawyer has said. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • The son of jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán has pleaded not guilty to drug-trafficking and money-laundering charges in the US. (yahoo.com)
  • Like his business associate, "El Chapo," Mexico appears unable to do a very good job of keeping Palma in jail. (wkbw.com)
  • And with all the trouble that Mexico is currently going to to get "El Chapo" Guzman extradited, Palma's return raises the unnerving possibility that some day, Guzman could be sent back. (wkbw.com)
  • In spite of the mountain of reporting and court testimony now available on the drug war in Mexico, there's usually one question that remains unanswered: where do drug trafficking up-and-comers like Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán work before they become kingpins? (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • In a new book, El Chapo: The Untold Story of the World's Most Infamous Drug Lord , Noah Hurowitz does his best to find out. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • through an interview with one of Chapo's relatives and a 1984 report from Enrique "Kiki" Camarena of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), he draws a connection between Chapo and Juan José Esparragoza-Moreno, aka "El Azul," in Zacatecas. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • The truth, of course, is that there are many other Chapo books in existence, many of which cover the drug lord's story well enough. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Martínez in particular is a great addition to the Chapo story, largely because he knew the drug lord so well and was so loyal. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • NEW YORK (AP) - During the height of Mexican drug wars in 1993, an attempted hit on Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman went wrong. (fox5ny.com)
  • The son of the notorious drug lord known as El Chapo has been captured in Mexico. (capeandislands.org)
  • Six months after escaping prison again, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was recaptured by Mexican marines following a gun battle on Friday, January 8. (latintimes.com)
  • 3) El Chapo was interested in seeing the story of his life told on film, but would entrust its telling only to the Mexican actress. (latintimes.com)
  • 9) When the two actors finally met El Chapo at a secret location in Mexico, Penn described Kate's and El Chapo's encounter like that of a father and daughter relationship. (latintimes.com)
  • Emma Coronel, the wife of imprisoned Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, will be freed in Los Angeles on Wednesday, according to the United States Bureau of Prisons. (aljazeera.com)
  • Ted Cruz has said money seized from the notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman should be used to pay for President Donald Trump's southern border wall. (ibtimes.co.uk)
  • Mexican authorities capture Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the world's most wanted drug lord. (cc.com)
  • Her husband is a world-famous Drug dealer, "Joaquin El Chapo Guzman. (mddailyrecord.com)
  • He has to be smuggled in and out like "El Chapo," the Mexican drug lord who escaped from prison the other day through a drainage pipe. (isthmus.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)
  • Once released, he could have just disappeared into Mexico's hinterlands, "just like Caro Quintero," Hope noted, referring to the last major old-guard drug lord released, Rafael Caro Quintero. (wkbw.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)
  • 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)
  • Rafael Caro Quintero, who is accused of kidnapping, torturing and murdering a US drug enforcement agent in 1985, was held in the town of Choix. (theweek.com)
  • This is a list of Mexico's 37 most-wanted drug lords as published by Mexican federal authorities on 23 March 2009. (wikipedia.org)
  • He'd served 28 years of a 40-year sentence for the killings when a judge in Mexico's Jalisco state overturned his conviction in August. (cnn.com)
  • RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas ( ValleyCentral) - A woman convicted of dealing with Mexican businesses prohibited by law who also happens to be the daughter of Mexico's most notorious drug lord was released early from federal custody. (valleycentral.com)
  • La Negra" is the daughter of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, one of Mexico's most notorious drug lords. (valleycentral.com)
  • Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion has grown to become Mexico's most notorious drug cartel. (valleycentral.com)
  • Mexico's government has offered $2 million each for information leading to an arrest of the top 24 drug lords in the country. (justiceinmexico.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The arrest of a Mexican drug lord in Brazil sheds new light on the international operations of one of Mexico's most powerful crime groups, and suggests that regional authorities may be ramping up cooperation to tackle the group's growing power and influence. (insightcrime.org)
  • Nazario Moreno Gonzalez, one of Mexico's reputed drug lords, has now been killed twice. (kcur.org)
  • The Cardenas-Guillen organization was responsible for the transport of thousands of kilograms of drugs into the United States from Colombia through Mexico's northeast region. (globalsecurity.org)
  • But there is far more to Mexico's story than this narrative would suggest, writes CFR Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies Shannon K. O'Neil, in Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead . (cfr.org)
  • The book will interest those who are concerned about the future of U.S.-Mexico relations, but it is also an indispensable account of Mexico's recent history-including its processes of democratic opening and political reform. (cfr.org)
  • The slaying of a gubernatorial candidate near the Texas border this year was the most stunning example of how the narco-traffickers warp Mexican politics. (latimes.com)
  • To fund the insurgency, the rebels first took a cut from coca producers and traffickers - and then starting running their own drug labs and forming partnerships with the traffickers. (latimes.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)
  • Drug prices are much higher than they would be if drugs were legal- probably much more than 100% higher for most drugs- because drug traffickers must be compensated for the risks of going to jail and the violence from being in the drug business. (becker-posner-blog.com)
  • The 'drug war zone" is the cultural world of drug traffickers ('narco-culture' or narcocultura ) and security officials who combat drug trafficking. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • DEA says trafficker sent huge amount of drugs into United States) (300) Washington -- The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has hailed the capture by Mexican law enforcement officials of a powerful Mexican drug lord, calling him one of the world's most wanted, feared, and violent drug traffickers. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Moreover, millions of dollars in drug money returned to the traffickers through the same corridor. (globalsecurity.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)
  • But there's been no word on the accused drug lord's whereabouts since then. (cnn.com)
  • Set to be published on 20 July, it stems from Hurowitz's coverage of the drug lord's 2018-2019 trial. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Ovidio is not one of the drug lord's best-known sons. (cbsnews.com)
  • On 9 October 2014, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes was arrested by Mexican authorities in Torreón (Coahuila). (wikipedia.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • In contrast, the main aim of Mexican drug gangs is to move merchandise without interference from authorities. (latimes.com)
  • Oseguera Cervantes is the most wanted man by Mexican law enforcement and one of the most wanted people in the United States by federal authorities. (valleycentral.com)
  • U.S. authorities handed over Palma in Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville, Texas, according to a statement from the Mexican Attorney General's Office. (wkbw.com)
  • Earlier, Mexican officials had said they did not know whether authorities in Mexico planned to bring new charges against Palma. (wkbw.com)
  • The founder of the brutal Los Zetas gang, Heriberto Lazcano, who authorities say was slain this week, gave money for construction of this church in Pachuca, Mexico, his home town. (arizona.edu)
  • Last September, Uruguayan authorities approved a request for Gerardo's extradition from the United States, which was seeking him on drug charges. (insightcrime.org)
  • At the same time, the arrests of La Chepa and his brother outside of Mexico also suggest that authorities in other countries in the region have stepped up joint efforts to disrupt the Cuinis' operations. (insightcrime.org)
  • Guzman's second escape was a black eye for the Mexican government, an embarrassment amplified when the actor Sean Penn was able to find and interview him at one of his hideouts in Mexico while he was on the run from authorities. (fox5ny.com)
  • CNN said he is considered by Mexican authorities to be the founder of the Guadalajara cartel. (theweek.com)
  • But on Sunday, Mexican authorities announced they'd killed him again. (kcur.org)
  • As of 2023, the single remaining fugitive of the 37 most-wanted drug lords is Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada who has never been arrested and incarcerated. (wikipedia.org)
  • State civil servants retired in droves during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the first nine months of 2023 saw a notable decline - the lowest number of state workers retiring since 2015. (yahoo.com)
  • Police in northern Mexico have detained about 100 people in a failed attempt to stop a second demonstration in less than a week to voice support for the world's most wanted drug lord, who was captured last week. (aljazeera.com)
  • The United States is the world's largest consumer of illegal drugs. (documentarystorm.com)
  • World's Scaries Drug finds Ryan Duffy taking us to Colombia and to see a mighty drug called Scopalamine, also known as "The Devil's Breath. (documentarystorm.com)
  • Palma was arrested in June 1995 in western Mexico and later extradited to the U.S. where he pleaded guilty to cocaine trafficking charges and was sentenced to 16 years in prison. (wkbw.com)
  • The two main drugs shipped from Mexico are marijuana and cocaine, the same two drugs that Miron and Waldock show constitute the vast majority of drugs used by American consumers. (becker-posner-blog.com)
  • It was one of the first to establish contacts with Colombian drug lords to transport cocaine from the South American country to the United States. (punchng.com)
  • Guzman, who has been held in solitary confinement since his extradition to the United States early last year, has pleaded not guilty to charges that he amassed a multi-billion-dollar fortune smuggling tons of cocaine and other drugs in a vast supply chain that reached New York, New Jersey, Texas and elsewhere north of the border. (fox5ny.com)
  • The DEA said in a March 21 statement that Osiel Cardenas-Guillen headed a major Mexican drug trafficking organization based in Reynosa and Matamoros that controlled large-scale marijuana and cocaine trafficking from Mexico to the United States. (globalsecurity.org)
  • I knew that El Chapo's story needed to be cast in a more nuanced light, offering a better understanding not just of his exploits but of the place he came from, the time in history he inhabited, the forces of prohibition and foreign policy that shaped the drug trade and helped make him wealthy and left tens of thousands of Mexicans dead and tens of thousands more disappeared. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • 6) Penn finds out about Kate's project after El Chapo's prison break on July 2015, when the actor reached out to Espinoza and mentioned he wanted to write a magazine story about the drug lord. (latintimes.com)
  • It preaches a quasi-religious Marxist doctrine that was widely distributed in a so-called bible even as the cartel allegedly sells methamphetamines and commits murders and extortion throughout Michoacan state. (kcur.org)
  • Plancarte, 43, was considered one of the top four leaders of the Knights Templar gang, which is based in the western state of Michoacan and has been under pressure from government and vigilante forces for several months. (dailysabah.com)
  • Guzman filed an appeal two months ago in hopes of preventing his extradition to the United States, which the government plans to carry out early this year. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • President Enrique Pena Nieto had balked at extraditing Guzman before his July 2015 escape, preferring to put him on trial in Mexico. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Messages on social networking sites had urged people to gather at the shrine for a march in favour of Guzman, who is alleged to be the hemisphere's most powerful drug lord, and who some local residents said provided jobs, money and security for inhabitants. (aljazeera.com)
  • The government has said he will not soon be extradited to the US, where Guzman has been indicted in California, New York and other states. (aljazeera.com)
  • A team of gunmen sent to rub out the notorious drug lord instead killed a Roman Catholic cardinal at an airport in Guadalajara, outraging the Mexican public enough to touch off a massive manhunt for Guzman. (fox5ny.com)
  • Despite his diminutive stature and nickname that means 'Shorty,' Guzman was once a larger-than-life figure in Mexico who has been compared to Al Capone and Robin Hood and been the subject of ballads called narcocorridos. (fox5ny.com)
  • But Guzman is perhaps best known for escaping custody in Mexico, the first time in 2011 by hiding in the bottom of a laundry bin. (fox5ny.com)
  • Guzman's extradition to New York City shook up Mexico's drug underworld. (fox5ny.com)
  • Hope said he has seen no sign that Guzman's extradition and jailing in the U.S. had a major impact on drug flows or routes. (fox5ny.com)
  • Raul Benitez, a security expert and professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, said Guzman's oversized myth has been fading, too. (fox5ny.com)
  • In Mexico, news stories about Guzman's trial have been prominent in the media even though it's viewed by some as old history. (fox5ny.com)
  • Mexican security forces actually briefly detained Ovidio Guzman in 2019. (capeandislands.org)
  • Guzman is serving a life sentence in the US after being extradited there in 2017 following two escapes from Mexican maximum-security prisons, once by digging a mile-long (1.6km-long) tunnel from his cell. (aljazeera.com)
  • Cruz's proposal comes about three months after Guzman was extradited from Mexico to the US on charges of operating an international, multi-billion dollar criminal enterprise. (ibtimes.co.uk)
  • Her father, Ines, was a famous drug dealer and Deputy of Guzman. (mddailyrecord.com)
  • He is facing two extradition bids, one in California for drug distribution and another in Texas on charges that include murder and money laundering. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Guzman's extradition would lead to a major drug trial for the head of a cartel accused of providing tons of drugs to addicts in the United States while fueling violence in Mexico. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • That is their concern, so that is going to throw a little bit of a bar into the extradition process between Mexico and the United States, which has been sporadic at best since the inception since the extradition treaty was signed between the two nations in 1978. (wkbw.com)
  • FBI's most wanted Caro Quintero, arrested in Mexico: Could face extradition to the U.S. (marca.com)
  • The capture, ordered by Brazil's top court, followed an extradition request by the United States, which is seeking La Chepa on drug trafficking charges and allegations that he belongs to the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación - CJNG). (insightcrime.org)
  • On 27 February 2015, Servando Gómez Martínez, the leader of the Knights Templar cartel, was arrested by Mexican security forces in Morelia, Michoacán. (wikipedia.org)
  • From Mexico City, NPR's Carrie Kahn adds that after Moreno's first "death," his cartel morphed into the Knights Templar, named after the medieval crusaders. (kcur.org)
  • 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)
  • The Knights Templar are considered major smugglers of crystal meth to the United States, but their business has expanded to include illegal mining of iron ore for export to China. (dailysabah.com)
  • The Attorney General's Office said he also faced organised-crime charges in six other cases in four Mexican states, and in Mexico City. (aljazeera.com)
  • Irked Mexican officials dismissed Clinton's Colombia comparison as sloppy history and tartly offered that the only common thread was drug consumption in the United States. (latimes.com)
  • But the missing body, doubts about whether the size of the corpse was a match to Lazcano and reticence by U.S. officials to congratulate Mexico all added to suspicions about the case. (arizona.edu)
  • Enrique "Kike" Plancarte was killed in the state of Queretaro in central Mexico, two government officials said on condition of anonymity. (dailysabah.com)
  • He escaped on 11 July 2015 through a 1.5 kilometer long tunnel from his cell in the Mexican maximum security prison but was recaptured by Mexican Marines following a gun battle on 8 January 2016. (wikipedia.org)
  • The slippery drug lord was recaptured in January, six months after his brazen escape from the Altiplano maximum-security prison through a one-mile tunnel that opened in his cell's shower. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • 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)
  • Caro Quintero will likely get extradited to the United States , where Raul Lopez Alvarez is serving 249 years in prison for torturing Camarena for 36 hours. (marca.com)
  • The 76-year-old founder of the Guadalajara cartel has been in prison since 1989 for the murder of Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, a US Drug Enforcement Administration agent. (punchng.com)
  • Felix Gallardo, who maintained his innocence, appeared in a wheelchair in a high-security prison in western Mexico, saying he was blind in one eye and deaf in one ear. (punchng.com)
  • We're living at a time in which being homeless, being on drugs, or being mentally ill are crimes that can send you to prison. (documentarystorm.com)
  • Guzmán was sentenced to life in prison in the United States in July. (cbsnews.com)
  • He was also on a US Treasury list of drug lords under sanctions. (dailysabah.com)
  • Mexico offered up to 30 million pesos (about 1.45 million U.S. dollars in 2021) for each of the following: Arturo Beltrán Leyva, a.k.a. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador during a press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City on August 11, 2021. (punchng.com)
  • Given that he participated in the 1985 torture-slaying of U.S. DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, Caro Quintero's release was a major embarrassment for the Mexican government. (wkbw.com)
  • Quintero has long been linked to the 1985 torture and murder of DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena in Guadalajara, Mexico. (marca.com)
  • Palma was detained under an arrest order from the western state of Nayarit. (wkbw.com)
  • 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)
  • His eventual arrest and imprisonment put an end to his work, but his portrayal in two seasons of Narcos: Mexico has kept the flame of curiosity burning onto the life of the infamous "Godfather. (grunge.com)
  • From here, Gallardo consolidated the Mexican drug trafficking networks into the infamous Guadalajara Cartel, which disintegrated after his arrest. (grunge.com)
  • Mexican media reported that Plancarte was killed by marines after resisting arrest near a football field in the town of Colon following an operation that involved around 150-200 troops. (dailysabah.com)
  • Emma Coronel Aispuro is an American - Mexican Based Ex-Beauty Queen contestant. (mddailyrecord.com)
  • On 23 June 2014, Fernando Sánchez Arellano was arrested by soldiers of the Mexican Army and federal agents of the Procuraduría General de la República (PGR) at the La Mesa borough of Tijuana, Baja California. (wikipedia.org)
  • 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)
  • The Drug Enforcement Agency has placed several billboards across Southern California offering a record reward of $10 million for the capture of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, a.ka. (valleycentral.com)
  • How Did Mexico Lose California? (shop-progreso.com)
  • She was born in San Francisco, California, United States America. (mddailyrecord.com)
  • If we extradite narcos to the United States, we should demand they not send them back," read a cartoon in the newspaper La Jornada, depicting Palma's return. (wkbw.com)
  • [1] The 'drug war zone' (Campbell, 2009) is a contested space where narcos (short for narcotraficantes ) and the state battle for power, legitimacy and social/cultural supremacy. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • 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 addition to being physically distant from Mexico, both Uruguay and Brazil are key money laundering centers, providing the González Valencia brothers ample opportunities to continue their illicit business there. (insightcrime.org)
  • And the fact that "the terrorists" are being funded by sales of illicit drugs would undoubtedly be cited as another reason for expanding the dictatorial war on terrorism powers to the war on drugs. (counterpunch.org)
  • Illicit drugs may now account for as much as $1 trillion annually in financing for criminal activity and corruption. (richplanet.net)
  • As the death toll from drug-related violence nears 30,000 in four years, the impression that Mexico is losing control over big chunks of territory - the northern states of Tamaulipas, Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon and Durango at the top of this list - is prompting comparisons with the Colombia of years past. (latimes.com)
  • While he began as a Mexican Federal Judicial Police agent for the government, the corrupt department fueled his descent into the world of crime that would shape his life's legacy. (grunge.com)
  • Their message is delivered through the use of instrumental and symbolic violence and information operations (including influencing the press, forging a social narrative--narcocultura--where the gangsters are seen as powerful challengers to the corrupt state). (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • He could try to get involved, but I don't know how directly," said Mexico City-based security analyst Alejandro Hope. (wkbw.com)
  • The suspect was identified as Antonio Oseguera Cervantes, arrested by the Mexican Army and National Guard in Jalisco earlier this week for his role in the Jalisco New Generation Cartel or CJNG, the Anadolu Agency reported. (latintimes.com)
  • Narco-conflict is an enduring feature of community life in Mexico and Central America (indeed throughout large segments of Latin America). (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • This monumental endeavor takes the two agents to Mexico and South America where they become entangled in a series of dangerous, suspenseful, and occasionally hilarious situations while chasing drug lords. (prweb.com)
  • One way America is being brought to heel is by the drug trade. (richplanet.net)
  • El Tío" left the Mexican government with 10 fugitives still on the loose. (wikipedia.org)
  • Our state Legislature believe this was an unnecessary government overreach into the private sector, imposing regulations and impacting one's personal privacy. (democracynow.org)
  • The state Legislature and this governor also believe that guidelines then need to be put in place, because of this new public topic, for government buildings, our schools and our rest stops to ensure privacy and expectation privacy for everyone. (democracynow.org)
  • They calculate about $41 billion is spent on this fight by state and local governments, and by the federal government, through policing efforts, the cost of court personnel and buildings used to try and convict drug offenders, and the cost of the guards and other resources used to imprison those convicting of drug offenses. (becker-posner-blog.com)
  • A wave of cartel-related violence has left more than 300,000 people dead in Mexico since the government deployed the military in the war on drugs in 2006. (punchng.com)
  • 1) Four years ago, Kate del Castillo expressed her mistrust of the Mexican government on Twitter. (latintimes.com)
  • The Yucatan Connection" follows the story of two Black Ops hired by the government to help in the eradication of drug smuggling into the United States. (prweb.com)
  • Cardenas-Guillen was captured March 14 through the combined efforts of the government of Mexico, the DEA, and other U.S. law enforcement agencies. (globalsecurity.org)
  • A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. (medlineplus.gov)
  • He is said to have been the head of an illegal drug empire that laundered billions of dollars and oversaw murders and kidnappings. (ibtimes.co.uk)
  • Tales of grisly murders conveyed by American media shape the widespread perception of Mexico as a dangerous place, overrun by brutal drug lords. (cfr.org)
  • Spanish pronunciation: [monterej] (listen)) is the capital and biggest city of the Mexican state of Nuevo León, located in the northeastern region of the country. (shop-progreso.com)
  • Is Monterrey a city or state? (shop-progreso.com)
  • Spanish pronunciation: [monterej] (listen)) is the capital and biggest city of the Mexican state of Nuevo León, located in the northeastern portion of the country. (shop-progreso.com)
  • What state is Mexico City in? (shop-progreso.com)
  • Is Monterrey the richest city in Mexico? (shop-progreso.com)
  • In Mexico, the city of Monterrey serves as the capital of the northern state of Nuevo Leon and is the ninth most populous city in the country. (shop-progreso.com)
  • The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Monterrey was predicted to be $142 billion in 2017, making it the wealthiest city in Mexico. (shop-progreso.com)
  • As the third biggest city in Mexico, Monterrey is also one of the richest, with a high quality of life that rivals that of many other cities in the nation. (shop-progreso.com)
  • Is there a Mexico City in the United States? (shop-progreso.com)
  • Mexico is a city located and the county seat of Audrain County in central Missouri, United States. (shop-progreso.com)
  • Is Mexico City like New York? (shop-progreso.com)
  • Mexico City is far more similar to Los Angeles than it is to New York City. (shop-progreso.com)
  • PACHUCA , Mexico - Even in death, drug lord Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano got no rest on Wednesday, his missing corpse the subject of a federal manhunt in northern Mexico and his elaborate mausoleum in this city locked and empty. (arizona.edu)
  • A native of Apan, a small city that is a hub for rodeo, Lazcano also considered this state capital a home. (arizona.edu)
  • The album was created and recorded in Mexico City and Nicaragua, inspired by his little brother's death which fueled him to zone in and focus even more on perfecting his craft in the studio. (allhiphop.com)
  • Associated Press writer Peter Orsi in Mexico City contributed to this report. (fox5ny.com)
  • Eyder Peralta, NPR News, Mexico City. (capeandislands.org)
  • Throughout the book, O'Neil livens the narrative with well-told anecdotes drawn from her own experiences in Mexico City and other parts of the country. (cfr.org)
  • Who is the biggest drug lord 2020? (shop-progreso.com)
  • About 9,300 people retired from state service in 2013, compared to a high of about 12,500 retirements in 2020. (yahoo.com)
  • Ovidio Guzmán's influence became evident in 2019 when he was briefly arrested by Mexican armed forces. (yahoo.com)
  • President Felipe Calderon and Interior Minister Alejandro Poire joined the navy in assuring the public that Lazcano was gunned down Sunday afternoon near a baseball field in Progreso, a town about 70 miles south of the Texas border in Coahuila state. (arizona.edu)
  • President Trump repeatedly promised during the election campaign to build a wall along the 2,000 mile US-Mexico border to stem the flow of illegal immigrants and smugglers - adding that it would be paid for by Mexico. (ibtimes.co.uk)
  • Suppose the drug lords expand such violent attacks to the United States, embarking on a killing spree against DEA agents, federal judges, federal prosecutors, military personnel, local law-enforcement agents, and private citizens. (counterpunch.org)
  • Want state worker news in your inbox? (yahoo.com)
  • RYOT News, November 18, 2013, http://www.ryot.org/if-you-eat-avocados-yours-probably-funding-mexican-drug-lords/473081 . (projectcensored.org)
  • Both Kate and Sean are under investigation for their secret meeting in Mexico, reports ABC News. (latintimes.com)
  • The news that is not being reported is of a more hopeful Mexico, with a globally competitive economy, a rising middle class, and increasingly influential pro-democracy voters. (cfr.org)
  • A man who was allegedly a drug lord who went by the name Tony Montana was arrested on Tuesday, Dec. 20, for ordering the execution of a 17-year-old teenager who allegedly mocked his boss online. (latintimes.com)
  • The younger brother was allegedly the leader of CJNG and is also the most wanted man in Mexico. (latintimes.com)
  • In Mexico -- where the Cuinis' parent group, the CJNG, is reportedly controling large areas of the country -- both organizations have been under pressure following arrests of top members as well as sanctions imposed by the US Treasury Department and criminal prosecutions against them in US federal courts. (insightcrime.org)
  • Indeed, as the CJNG has grown more powerful in recent years, the United States in particular has taken steps to target its financial infrastructure. (insightcrime.org)
  • However, they continue selling drugs because their legal opportunities are limited, and also because occasionally a small time seller rises up in the drug organization and makes it big. (becker-posner-blog.com)
  • Gallardo's dive into the underworld of drug trafficking truly began to materialize after he entered the Mexican police force at age 17. (grunge.com)
  • He was acquitted, or had the charges dismissed, for accusations including multiple counts of murder, kidnapping, robbery and drug possession. (wkbw.com)
  • The brutal murder marked a low point in U.S.-Mexico relations. (10news.com)
  • Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday thanked a veteran drug lord jailed for the murder of a US undercover agent, after the incarcerated man praised the leftist leader's security strategy. (punchng.com)
  • But the fact is that the federal courts are well-equipped to handle terrorism cases as well as drug cases, murder cases, and kidnapping cases. (counterpunch.org)
  • On 15 July 2013, Miguel Treviño Morales was apprehended by the Mexican Marines in a town called Anáhuac, Nuevo León, near the border of the state of Tamaulipas. (wikipedia.org)
  • But is Mexico the new Colombia? (latimes.com)
  • Perhaps, however, the worse results of the American war on drugs are found in its effects on other countries, especially Mexico, Colombia, and other Latin American countries. (becker-posner-blog.com)
  • Mexico, which has no capital punishment, has previously criticized the execution of Mexican nationals in the United States. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Writing in his diary, he described a life of stagnant destitution that offered little chance to succeed - a feeling that the publication said pervaded many Mexican nationals. (grunge.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)
  • Perhaps the "war on drugs", initiated by President Nixon in the 1970s, was worth starting, in part for the reasons Posner gives. (becker-posner-blog.com)
  • As reported by The Guardian , the pair worked together trafficking heroin and marijuana to the United States amid the heightened demand for the drugs in the 1960s and 1970s. (grunge.com)
  • The War on Drugs initiative which began sometime in the early 1970s , has since become one of the most costly and dangerous political policies of the American system. (documentarystorm.com)
  • According to CGIAR , the state is located in the country's vast farming system that envelopes portions of its northern and central regions. (grunge.com)
  • In Mexico, Peña Nieto has six years to overcome his country's remaining economic, social, and political barriers. (cfr.org)
  • Lazcano, a 37-year-old former special forces commando, left the army in the late 1990s to form an enforcer wing of the drug-trafficking Gulf Cartel, only later to break with the group and turn his Los Zetas commandos into one of the most powerful and brutal crime groups not only in Mexico but the world. (arizona.edu)
  • Later on, her father got arrested by the United States departments of the Treasury under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation. (mddailyrecord.com)
  • A leader of the Zetas drug cartel, Raúl Hernández Lechuga was captured on 12 December 2011. (wikipedia.org)
  • The most-wanted of the 37 drug lords was Joaquín Guzmán Loera, for whom Mexican and U.S. governments offered a total bounty of US$7 million. (wikipedia.org)
  • If Lazcano's body were to turn up somewhere, it would probably be in his native Hidalgo state in central eastern Mexico. (arizona.edu)
  • According to Vocativ , the avocado is state of Michoacan's main export, with 72 percent of all Mexican avocado plantations located in the state. (projectcensored.org)
  • Palma's release will translate to more drugs in the U.S. and more violence for Mexico. (wkbw.com)
  • The casualties have been huge: an estimated 30,000 + persons have been killed in recent years as a result of the drug violence, far greater than the combined deaths of American and allied forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. (becker-posner-blog.com)
  • After the drug lords discovered that they are very good at violence and intimidation, they expanded geographically and into other activities. (becker-posner-blog.com)
  • Narratives of violence and power are key elements of this struggle to secure control of the 'narcoscape'-the political and social landscape of the 'drug war zone. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • New media is central to this quest for power where the interactive impact of violence, corruption and information operations fuels concerted assaults on state solvency (the net result of capacity and legitimacy). (smallwarsjournal.com)