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Drug Cartels

Can President Nieto Deliver the Goods?

Daniel Wagner | Posted 04.26.2013 | World
Daniel Wagner

Breaking the monopoly of Mr. Slim and reforming Pemex would be a good start, and would also serve to demonstrate that the PRI is indeed interested in moving Mexico forward. It will take every ounce of his determination and perseverance to make it a reality.

Cartel 'Queen' Pleads Guilty

AP | Posted 04.24.2013 | Latino Voices

MIAMI — A Mexican woman known as a drug cartel queen has pleaded guilty in Miami to charges arising from a major cocaine trafficking case. Cour...

WATCH: Rick Perry Blames The Mexicans

The Huffington Post | Posted 04.05.2013 | Latino Voices

It doesn’t take evidence for this Texas governor to start leaning toward a conclusion. News reports suggest a white supremacist group called the...

Matthew Paul Olmos: so go the ghosts of mexico

Jody Christopherson | Posted 04.05.2013 | Arts
Jody Christopherson

so go the ghosts of mexico, part 1, is inspired by the true story of Marisol Valles Garcia -- who made headlines as the "bravest woman in mexico" when she volunteered to be the police chief of Praxedis, Chihuahua, Mexico - despite the execution of former chief Manuel Castro-Martínez.

Mexican Drug Cartels Penetrate Deeper Into U.S. Than Ever Before

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 04.01.2013 | Crime

CHICAGO — Mexican drug cartels whose operatives once rarely ventured beyond the U.S. border are dispatching some of their most trusted agents to...

Mexico Vigilantes Tied To Drug Cartel

AP | Posted 03.09.2013 | Latino Voices

MEXICO CITY -- A federal prosecutor in Mexico said Friday that a group of vigilantes in western Mexico appears to have links to the Jalisco New Genera...

Killer Who Decapitated Marijuana Thief May Get Just 10-Year Sentence

AP | JACQUES BILLEAUD | Posted 05.07.2013 | Crime

PHOENIX — A man has pleaded no contest to a murder charge in the beheading of a man in Arizona who police say had stolen drugs from a Mexican dr...

26,121 Missing During Mexico's Drug War

AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 04.28.2013 | World

MEXICO CITY — An official count shows at least 26,121 people were reported missing during the term of President Felipe Calderon, who launched th...

20,000 Missing In 6 Years Of Mexico's Drug War

AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 12.23.2012 | World

MEXICO CITY -- Federal police officer Luis Angel Leon Rodriguez disappeared in 2009 along with six fellow police as they headed to the western state o...

Mexico Says More Cartels At Work Than Previously Believed

AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 02.17.2013 | World

MEXICO CITY — Mexico's new attorney general said Tuesday that as many as 80 small and medium-size drug cartels are operating in the country, a n...

The 10 Richest Drug Dealers Ever

Posted 10.17.2012 | Home

Who are the richest drug dealers of all time? Celebrity Net Worth has the answer. On Tuesday, the money-minded blog posted a list of the top 20 mos...

'The Cartel' Is Britain's Biggest Drug Gang

Vice.com | Posted 10.15.2012 | Weird News

Longtime tabloid hack and sometime VICE contributor Graham Johnson has written a new book called The Cartel, which explores the behind-the-scenes nefa...

Mexico Says The Drug War Is Working, But Is It?

Reuters | Posted 12.15.2012 | World

By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Mexico is making progress in its fight against powerful drug cartels and they are becoming ...

WATCH: Filmmaker Aims To Humanize The Drug War Through The Life Of A Mexican Cemetery 'Watchman'

The Huffington Post | Carolina Moreno | Posted 09.27.2012 | Latino Voices

Decapitated bodies, blood soaked streets, and mugshots of the cartel leaders behind the violence flash before television audiences, all in an attempt ...

Mexican Cartel Leader 'El Molca' Reportedly Captured

AP | Posted 09.13.2012 | World

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican police have captured a founding member and leader of a drug-trafficking gang based in western Mexico. Mexican federal police a...

Which Cartels Are Running The Show In Mexico?

The Huffington Post | Clare Richardson | Posted 09.05.2012 | World

Hair-raising reports of grisly murders, often carried out in plain sight, offer chilling reminders to rival drug cartels and intervening authorities i...

FBI Claims Drug Cartel Funneled Cash Through BofA

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 07.09.2012 | Business

Drug money has a way of sprawling. And some of it may have reached Bank of America. A federal probe into Los Zetas, a Mexican drug cartel, claims t...

Obama To Tackle Drug War In Second Term

www.gq.com | Posted 09.01.2012 | Politics

According to ongoing discussions with Obama aides and associates, if the president wins a second term, he plans to tackle another American war that ha...

Mexican Presidential Candidate Josefina Vázquez Mota: "I'll Help Mexicans Stay in Mexico"

Elisabeth Braw | Posted 08.28.2012 | World
Elisabeth Braw

For the first time ever, a woman could win Mexico's presidential election. Recently Vázquez Mota added an unexpected twist to the campaign by asking her female followers to withhold "hanky panky" until their husbands agree to vote.

Andrea Stone

The Slain Border Agent Whose Death Exposed Fast And Furious

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 06.23.2012 | Politics

Christmas was 11 days away, and Brian Terry was eager to fly home to Michigan for his first family holiday in three years. He couldn't wait to see the...

Death Threats Against A Human Rights Defender: Vidulfo Rosales In Mexico

Kerry Kennedy | Posted 08.07.2012 | World
Kerry Kennedy

We in the U.S. must do our part to build a future of human rights and human dignity throughout the Americas, and call on Mexico to protect its indigenous communities and the advocates like Vidulfo Rosales who risk everything to defend them.

Sheriff Babeu: Critics Are On Their 'High Horse'

AP | AMANDA LEE MYERS | Posted 08.06.2012 | Politics

TEMPE, Ariz. — Responding to critics who claim he was too quick to blame drug smugglers for the deaths of five people found in a burned-out SUV ...

Judges From High-Profile Drug Cases Suspended

AP | ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON | Posted 08.02.2012 | World

MEXICO CITY — Mexican court authorities have suspended two federal judges who presided over high-profile drug cases, saying investigators are lo...

Happy Two Years In Hell, Jefe de Jefe

Jamie Haase | Posted 04.08.2012 | Crime
Jamie Haase

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?

Stuffed Animal Maker Allegedly A Front For Money Laundering

AP | GREG RISLING | Posted 04.01.2012 | Business

LOS ANGELES — Two sisters who ran a Los Angeles toy company were sentenced Tuesday to more than three years in federal prison for their role in ...