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Mexico cracks down on drugs and migrants. Will it be enough to stop Trump tariffs?
1 week, 6 days ago

Mexico cracks down on drugs and migrants. Will it be enough to stop Trump tariffs?

LA Times  

In recent days, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has touted her country’s largest-ever seizure of fentanyl and highlighted multiple crackdowns on migrants headed toward the United States. An elated Trump reported after the call on social media that Sheinbaum had “agreed to stop Migration through Mexico” and had committed to “effectively closing our Southern Border.” Sheinbaum disputed that, saying that Mexico’s …

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Mexico’s ex-security czar gets 38 years for cartel bribes. Is he the first of many?
2 months, 1 week ago

Mexico’s ex-security czar gets 38 years for cartel bribes. Is he the first of many?

LA Times  

In the history of narco-corruption in Mexico, no higher-ranking official than Genaro García Luna has ever faced justice in the United States. “You cannot parade this series of awards… it doesn’t wash, it doesn’t add up.” Cogan, who also presided over the case of El Chapo, told the former security chief: “You have the same kind of thuggishness as El …

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Are Mexican drug cartels as powerful as people think?
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Are Mexican drug cartels as powerful as people think?

LA Times  

Oswaldo Zavala is a Mexican academic and writer whose provocatively titled 2022 book — “Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in U.S. and Mexican Culture” — argues for a bold reframing of how to think about organized crime in his country. After the arrest last month of two leaders of the Sinaloa drug trafficking organization, The Times’ Kate Linthicum spoke …

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A journalist tells Mexico’s president his supporters attacked her; he reacts with scorn, disinterest
4 months, 1 week ago

A journalist tells Mexico’s president his supporters attacked her; he reacts with scorn, disinterest

New Indian Express  

MEXICO CITY: A reporter told Mexico’s president Tuesday that his supporters had harassed her when she was trying to cover an event in June, and complained that his polarization of Mexican society has put journalists at risk. When she asked him what he would do about it, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reacted with a mix of scorn and disinterest, …

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What's the fallout of Mexican drug lords' capture?
4 months, 4 weeks ago

What's the fallout of Mexican drug lords' capture?

India Today  

Sinaloa drug cartel were arrested by US agents in Texas during a dramatic operation and without the involvment of Mexican authorities. Impact on Sinaloa cartel US Drug Enforcement Administration chief Anne Milgram said Zambada's arrest "strikes at the heart of the cartel that is responsible for the majority of drugs, including fentanyl and methamphetamine, killing Americans from coast to coast." …

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Mexican cartel leader known as “El Mayo” pleads not guilty in federal court
5 months ago

Mexican cartel leader known as “El Mayo” pleads not guilty in federal court

LA Times  

Soldiers patrol in Culiacan, the northern Mexico city that is the base of the Sinaloa cartel, on Oct. 18, 2019. Two of Mexico’s most powerful drug traffickers — one a longtime partner of the Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the other his son — were taken into U.S. custody on Thursday afternoon, a pair of arrests likely to …

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Mexican president suggests U.S. talks on migration and drugs may suffer after drug money allegations
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Mexican president suggests U.S. talks on migration and drugs may suffer after drug money allegations

LA Times  

Mexico’s president suggested Thursday that talks with the U.S. government on migration and drug trafficking could suffer after media reports of a U.S. investigation into alleged drug money donations for his 2006 campaign. “I don’t accept this, what I want is for the U.S. government to take a stand,” López Obrador said at his daily morning press briefing. López Obrador …

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Some Mexican pharmacies are selling full bottles of Adderall. But it’s actually meth.
1 year ago

Some Mexican pharmacies are selling full bottles of Adderall. But it’s actually meth.

LA Times  

In November 2023, some pharmacies in Puerto Vallarta were selling bottles of fake Adderall containing methamphetamine that were identical to this one that Times reporters purchased from a drug store in the coastal city in May 2023. “It’s really bad to find out that pharmacies are selling whole bottles of fake medication, and clearly an effort has been made to …

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How El Chapo’s Man in Chicago Became a Police Consultant
1 year ago

How El Chapo’s Man in Chicago Became a Police Consultant

Live Mint  

BILLINGS, Mont.—Margarito Flores has the jitters. The twins, natives of Chicago, were once the point men for Joaquín Guzmán and his partner Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, U.S. prosecutors said. He was kidnapped again in Mexico by a supplier over a drug debt and was saved by the intervention of Joaquín Guzmán, who had taken a shine to the twins, Margarito …

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El Chapo's sons claim they are NOT the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel
1 year, 7 months ago

El Chapo's sons claim they are NOT the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel

Daily Mail  

The sons of notorious kingpin Joaquín 'El Chapo distanced themselves from flooding the streets of the United States with fentanyl and claimed they are not the leaders of the transnational criminal organization their jailed father co-founded. The Drug Enforcement Administration announced on April 13 a $10 million reward for information that leads to the arrest and/or conviction of Jesús Alfredo …

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‘El Chapo’ sons send Mexico cartel’s cheap fentanyl into U.S., indictment says
1 year, 7 months ago

‘El Chapo’ sons send Mexico cartel’s cheap fentanyl into U.S., indictment says

LA Times  

Ovidio Guzmán López is shown being detained by Mexican authorities in 2019. With Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán serving a life sentence, his sons steered the family business into fentanyl, establishing a network of labs churning out massive quantities of the cheap, deadly drug that they smuggled into the U.S., prosecutors revealed in a recent indictment. Although Guzmán’s …

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More sanctions for deadly fentanyl if bill becomes law
1 year, 7 months ago

More sanctions for deadly fentanyl if bill becomes law

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Over the past year, the U.S. Treasury Department has used its sanctions powers to impose wide-ranging financial penalties on Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine — turning Russia into the most sanctioned country in the world. Now, the federal agency is facing increasing pressure, including from legislation introduced Tuesday in the Senate, to use those tools …

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More sanctions for deadly fentanyl if bill becomes law
1 year, 8 months ago

More sanctions for deadly fentanyl if bill becomes law

LA Times  

Over the last year, the U.S. Treasury Department has used its sanctions powers to impose wide-ranging financial penalties on Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine, turning Russia into the most sanctioned country in the world. Now, the agency is facing increasing pressure, including from legislation introduced Tuesday in the Senate, to use those tools with similar vigor against …

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Harris, Feinstein told in 2018 of American killed by fentanyl pills from Mexican pharmacy
1 year, 8 months ago

Harris, Feinstein told in 2018 of American killed by fentanyl pills from Mexican pharmacy

LA Times  

Celia, left, and Terry Harms at their home in Warwick, R.I. Their son Jonathan Harms died in 2017 after purchasing fentanyl-tainted pills from a pharmacy in Mexico. We just got stock answers to constituent complaints.” After The Times contacted Feinstein’s office Tuesday, Celia Harms said, one of the senator’s staffers in California called and “apologized that no one offered to …

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U.S. says it 'infiltrated' the Sinaloa drug cartel in the fight against fentanyl
1 year, 8 months ago

U.S. says it 'infiltrated' the Sinaloa drug cartel in the fight against fentanyl

NPR  

U.S. says it 'infiltrated' the Sinaloa drug cartel in the fight against fentanyl Enlarge this image toggle caption U.S. Justice Department U.S. Justice Department U.S. officials say they've identified and infiltrated the Mexican drug organization that's largely responsible for the fentanyl crisis killing tens of thousands of Americans every year. "While El Chapo's Sinaloa was about cocaine and meth, and …

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Mexico's president has some advice for U.S. on moral decay
1 year, 8 months ago

Mexico's president has some advice for U.S. on moral decay

LA Times  

Then-President Trump and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, left, attend an event at the White House Rose Garden in July 2020. “López Obrador gets a free pass from Washington,” said Jorge Castañeda, a former Mexican foreign secretary and critic of the president. “He’s gotten a very good deal from both Biden and Trump, basically for doing their dirty work …

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US Justice Department announces charges against 28 Sinaloa Cartel members, including El Chapo's sons
1 year, 8 months ago

US Justice Department announces charges against 28 Sinaloa Cartel members, including El Chapo's sons

Firstpost  

Washington: In a broad fentanyl trafficking investigation, the Justice Department on Friday announced charges against more than two dozen members of Mexico’s renowned Sinaloa Cartel, including the sons of infamous drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Attorney General Merrick Garland delivered the three district indictments targeting the cartel’s global network while flanked by the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, …

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El Chapo sons among 28 Sinaloa cartel members charged by US
1 year, 8 months ago

El Chapo sons among 28 Sinaloa cartel members charged by US

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Friday announced charges against more than two dozen members of Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel, including sons of notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, in a sprawling fentanyl-trafficking investigation. The three Guzman sons charged — Ovidio Guzmán López, Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar and Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Sálazar — are known as the Chapitos, or …

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Tainted pills from Mexican pharmacies kept killing Americans even after U.S. knew of threat
1 year, 8 months ago

Tainted pills from Mexican pharmacies kept killing Americans even after U.S. knew of threat

LA Times  

There was the teenager from Texas. He said he “can almost guarantee” that there are numerous cases of travelers killed by fentanyl-tainted pills purchased from Mexican pharmacies that will never be known. A notebook found among Ryan Bagwell’s belongings after he died identifies three clear goals: “take over my father’s business,” “get better grades” and “catch a 30+ inch trout.” …

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U.S. issues warning about Mexican pharmacies selling tainted, counterfeit pills
1 year, 9 months ago

U.S. issues warning about Mexican pharmacies selling tainted, counterfeit pills

LA Times  

The U.S. State Department issued a warning Friday for Americans to “exercise caution” when buying medications from drugstores in Mexico, posting the health alert a week after a letter from two lawmakers and an investigation by The Times. “The U.S. Department of State is aware of recent media reports regarding counterfeit pharmaceuticals available at pharmacies in Mexico, including those tainted …

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Feds knew for years fentanyl-tainted pills from Mexican pharmacies were killing Americans
1 year, 9 months ago

Feds knew for years fentanyl-tainted pills from Mexican pharmacies were killing Americans

LA Times  

Some pharmacies in Mexico are selling pills that contain illicit substances, passing them off as legitimate pharmaceuticals. “I don’t.” :: As soon as she hung up, Mary Harrell called her daughter in Washington state. “It’s true.” Once she knew her son really was gone, Mary Harrell suspected foul play. Signed “Mary A. Harrell and Family,” the November 2019 email detailed …

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What happened to the four Americans ensnared in a deadly Mexico cartel kidnapping?
1 year, 9 months ago

What happened to the four Americans ensnared in a deadly Mexico cartel kidnapping?

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Shaeed Woodard was identified …

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Survivors Of Deadly Mexico Kidnapping Being Treated At Texas Hospital
1 year, 9 months ago

Survivors Of Deadly Mexico Kidnapping Being Treated At Texas Hospital

Huff Post  

A Mexican Red Cross ambulance on Tuesday transports two Americans found alive after their abduction in Mexico last week. via Associated Press CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico — A road trip to Mexico for cosmetic surgery veered violently off course when four Americans were caught in a drug cartel shootout, leaving two dead and two held captive for days in a remote …

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Photos show rescue of two American tourists from drug cartel stash house as dead friends identified
1 year, 9 months ago

Photos show rescue of two American tourists from drug cartel stash house as dead friends identified

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. At an early press conference on Tuesday, Mexican …

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