Mexican Drug Cartels

Mexican Drug Kingpin To Be Sentenced In San Diego

AP | JULIE WATSON | Posted 06.02.2012

Read More: Benjamin Arellano Felix Sentenced, Mexican Drug Cartels, Mexico, Mexican, Mexicans, Mexican Drug War, Mexican Drug Kingpin, Video, Latino Voices News

SAN DIEGO — Former drug kingpin Benjamin Arellano Felix was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison for leading one of the world's most brutal ca...

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Breakaway Drug Gang Dissolved Victims' In Vats Of Acids: Prosecutor

AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Mexican Drug Cartels, Border Violence, Video, David Valencia Trial, San Diego, Jose Olivera Beritan Trial, Corpses Dissolved in Acid, Jose Olivera Beritan, Bodies Dissolved in Acid, David Valencia, California Crime, Crime News

SAN DIEGO — The government's case against two men accused of dissolving corpses in vats of acid for a Mexican drug gang hinges on flawed witness...

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Horror: Prison Guards Allegedly Plotted Mass Killings With Brutal Drug Cartel

Reuters | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Mexican Drug Cartels, Video, Zetas Prisoners, Drug War, Reuters, Zetas Prison Break, Mexico, Mexico Prison Escape, Mexico Prison Break, Mexican Drug War, World News

MONTERREY, Mexico, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Members of the Zetas drug cartel plotted with prison guards to orchestrate an elaborate escape and kill 44 of ...

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Largest Mass Drug Arrest In Colorado History

Posted 04.10.2012

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Multiple law enforcement agencies participated in a large scale drug and gang bust that resulted in the arrests of 80 people, on Thursday. Authorities...

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Happy Two Years In Hell, Jefe de Jefe

Jamie Haase | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Drug Trafficking, Drug Cartels, Mexican Drug Cartels, Arturo Beltran Leyva, Mexico Drug War, Marijuana, Drug War, Arturo Beltran Leyva Shootout, Marijuana Legalization, War on Drugs, Mexico Drug Violence, Crime News

It's been two years since the dramatic killing of drug kingpin Arturo Beltran Leyva. But if removing critical targets proves to accomplish nothing when it comes to interrupting the flow of narcotics -- what will it take for the violence to subside?

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Gang Members Hang Suspicious Banners Ahead Of Pope Visit

AP | By MARK STEVENSON | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Mexican Drug Cartels, Video, Leon, Mexico City, Guanajuato, Mexico, Pope Visit, Pope Benedict XVI, Mexico Drug Wars, World News

MEXICO CITY -- A drug gang unfurled banners in a Mexican city that Pope Benedict XVI is scheduled to visit next month, telling rival traffickers to ke...

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Dems Make New Claim On 'Fast An Furious'

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 04.01.2012

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WASHINGTON — Democrats looking into Operation Fast and Furious say a yearlong investigation has turned up no evidence that the flawed gun smuggl...

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Drug War: Time For An Exit Strategy

Daniel Robelo | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Mexican Drug Cartels, Drug War, Marijuana Legalization, Latino Politics, Latino Voices News

U.S. citizens wait impatiently for their government to join the rest of the hemisphere in rethinking the failed drug war. Our southern neighbors cannot afford to wait any longer.

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The 'Queen Of The Pacific' Eludes Extradition Again

AP | By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Queen of the Pacific, Mexican Drug Cartel, Mexican Drug Cartels, US Extradition, Extradition, Mexico, Mexican Drug War, Sandra Avila Beltran, Latino Voices News

MEXICO CITY -- A Mexican federal judge on Thursday rejected a second attempt to extradite an alleged drug trafficker to the U.S., nearly exhausting ye...

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Mexican Cartel Kingpin Pleads Guilty In US Court

AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Mexican Drug Cartels, Video, Benjamin Arrellano Felix, Money Laundering, Arellano-Felix-Cartel, Narco-Trafficking, Narcos, Racketeering, Drug Smuggling, Latino Voices News

SAN DIEGO — Mexican drug kingpin Benjamin Arellano Felix pleaded guilty Wednesday to racketeering and conspiracy to launder money, avoiding the ...

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The Pentagon's $3 Billion Drug War Auction

Aurelia Fierros | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Mexican Drug Cartels, Drug Cartels, Drug War, War on Drugs, Latino Politics, Narco-Trafficking, Video, Latino Voices News

Is the U.S. enforcing the right drug policy? Is Mexico congruent with pushing the drug war to the limit, being aware that a gigantic consumers' market is at the front door?

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Mexican Drug War: U.S. Accused Of Laundering Drug Cartel Money

The Huffington Post | Gabriel Lerner | Posted 12.06.2011

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In the beginning there was Fast and Furious, a botched operation carried by the Phoenix office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosi...

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20 Charged In Drug Trafficking Case Linked To Mexican Drug Cartel

AP | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Mexican Drug Cartels, Zetas Chicago, Chicago Drug Trafficking Arrests, Dea, Chicago Drug Trafficking, Zetas Drug Cartel, Chicago News

CHICAGO -- Federal agents have arrested 13 people as part of a probe into the alleged multimillion-dollar shipments of drug money between the Chicago ...

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PHOTOS: 5 Tons Of Pot Seized In Massive Indiana Bust

Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: 5 Tons of Pot Indiana, Indianapolis Pot Bust, Mexican Drug Cartels, Indiana Police, Marion County, Indianapolis Marijuana Bust, Indiana Pot Bust, Video, Chicago News

After an eight-month investigation, officials in Indianapolis arrested four men and recovered five tons of marijuana in possibly the largest pot bust ...

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Soldiers Free Dozens Held Captive For Forced Labor By Mexican Drug Cartel

AP | Posted 12.16.2011

Read More: Mexican Drug Cartels, Drug Gang Forced Labor, Drug Violence, Mexico, Zetas, Piedras Negras, Zetas Forced Labor, Mexico Drug Violence, Zetas Drug Cartel, Eagle Pass, World News

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's military says soldiers freed 61 men being held captive by the Zetas drug cartel for use as forced labor. The army says the me...

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Justice Department Investigation Bush Program Similar To 'Fast And Furious'

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 12.14.2011

WASHINGTON — A second Bush administration gun-trafficking investigation has surfaced using the same controversial tactic for which congressional...

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Holder's Impeachment Imminent

The Relentless Conservative | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Mexican Drug Cartels, US Gun Running, Operation Fast and Furious, 2nd Amendment, Impeachment, Barack Hussein Obama, Eric Holder, Federal Agents Killed, Politics News

"Hillary Clinton, our junior senator from New York, announced that she has no intentions of ever, ever running for office of the President of the Unit...

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Issa Issues Subpoena For Eric Holder Over Controversial Gun-Running Operation

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.12.2011

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) Wednesday issued a subpoena to Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr. and ...

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Rick Perry Open To Sending U.S. Troops Into Mexico

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 12.01.2011

Read More: Mexican Drug Cartels, Video, Mexico Drug War, Rick Perry 2012, Mexico Drug Cartels, U.S.-Mexico Border, Elections 2012, Mexico, Immigration, Rick Perry Mexico, Mexico Drug Violence, Rick Perry, Politics News

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP/The Huffington Post) -- Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry says he is open to sending American troops to Mexico to help...

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Feds Fear Assassination, Escape If Drug Lord Allowed On Rooftop Gym

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Mexican Drug Cartels, Drug Cartels, Vicente Zambada-Niebla, Chicago News

Federal prosecutors are opposed to letting an alleged Mexican drug kingpin exercise on the rooftop of a high-rise jail in the Loop because they fear a...

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Mexico Recaptures Drug Cartel Outlaw 9 Years Later

AP | Posted 11.14.2011

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MEXICO CITY — Mexican marines recaptured a fugitive suspected trafficker who had been arrested 13 years earlier along with the man who was to be...

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Mexico Casino Had Its Doors Chained During Arson That Killed 52

Fox News Latino | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: Mexican Drug Cartels, Mexico, Video, Monterrey, Mexico Drug War, Los Zetas, Monterrey Mexico, Mexico Casino Attack, Latino Voices News

It really was a deathtrap. A report in El Universal newspaper says that the doors to a Mexico casino were chained when thugs poured gasoline and li...

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Alleged Mexican Cartel Member Extradited To US

AP | Posted 10.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department says a high-ranking member of what's known as the Gulf Cartel has been extradited to the United States from Mexic...

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Iraqi-Mexican Drug And Weapons Operation Busted In California

AP | JULIE WATSON | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Chaldean Organized Crime Syndicate, Mexican Cartels, Mexican Drug Cartels, Drug Cartels, Bust, Drug Bust, Iraqi-Mexican, Detroit, El Cajon, Sinaloa, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, Weapons, Drug, Crime News

SAN DIEGO — Federal officials said Thursday they've busted a drug trafficking ring involving Mexico's most powerful cartel and members of an Ira...

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Wayne Lapierre: Old Dog, Old Tricks

Cliff Schecter | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Firearms and Explosives, Mexico, Media Matters, Manufacturing Doubt, Nra, Bureau of Alcohol, Wayne LaPierre, Mexican Drug Cartels, Long Guns, Political Correction, Arms Dealers, National Rifle Association, US Border, Lawrence O'Donnell, Violence Policy Center, Tobacco, Pete Forcelli, Atf, Politics News

To quote Lawrence O'Donnell from his show back in February, Wayne LaPierre is "Washington's lobbyist in favor of murderer's rights, always to use the gun of their choice."

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