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Border patrol moves focus to Texas to combat Mexican drug cartels
Success in tightening border in Arizona means people- and drug-smuggling gangs increasingly look to remote Texas for route into US US border protection officials are preparing to shift their attentions from Arizona to Texas in a bid to combat the evolving efforts of Mexican gangs to smuggle people and drugs…
Study: Voters in three states could approve billion-dollar ‘shock’ to Mexican cartels
If Washington, Colorado or Oregon legalize marijuana in next week’s statewide elections, the result won’t just be felt in those states: according to a study published this week, American voters appear set to back a massive “structural shock” to the Mexican drug cartels that could sap literally billions from their…
U.S., Mexico pledge to crack down on meth production
WASHINGTON — The United States and Mexico have agreed to boost efforts to crack down on the production of methamphetamines by Mexican drug cartels along their common border, US authorities said Thursday. The memorandum of cooperation signed by the two sides calls for improved sharing of intelligence and joint law…
Quick update
I, like a lot of people, believed that, while Republicans are off their rocker with their elaborate Fast and the Furious conspiracy theories, the government probably did allow guns into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. I was wrong. Quite simply, there’s a fundamental misconception at the heart of the…
Women on the rise in Mexican drug cartels
The high mortality rate in Mexico’s drug war has seen women progress quickly in the shadowy underworld of the cartels and they are increasingly taking on key management roles, a new book says. “Female Bosses of Narco-Traffic,” by Arturo Santamaria, a researcher at the Autonomous University of the State of Sinaloa, traces the…
Central American drug violence surges as cartels move south
Drug-related violence has surged to “alarming and unprecedented” levels in Central America as Mexican drug cartels have shifted their operations, a UN report said Tuesday. The move “has resulted in increased levels of violence, kidnapping, bribery torture and homicide” in Central America, the annual report by the International Narcotics Control…
Mexico unearths 600-meter border drug tunnel
TIJUANA, Mexico — Mexican authorities have unearthed a 600-meter (1,800-foot) drug smuggling tunnel beneath the US border, the second such find in the same area this month. The 15-foot-deep tunnel found on Tuesday was similar to another tunnel found on November 16, and contained both lighting and transport carts, indicating…
New drug tunnel found under U.S.-Mexico border
LOS ANGELES — US authorities announced Wednesday they had uncovered a “major” drug-smuggling tunnel under the US-Mexico border, the latest such find on the troubled frontier. US and Mexican officers seized at least 14 tons of marijuana and arrested two people linked to the “sophisticated” tunnel, which linked warehouses in…
Iran case shows growing national security role of Drug Enforcement Administration
By Basil Katz NEW YORK (Reuters) – The idea of Mexican drug cartels cooperating with Iranian plotters to carry out bombings and murders in the United States may be far-fetched. That is because the alleged plan by Iranian-American suspect Manssor Arbabsiar and a co-defendant to use a Mexican gang to…
Feds claim to have foiled Washington, D.C. terror plot
Federal agents have disrupted a major plot involving a “significant terrorist act in the United States,” federal officials told ABC News Tuesday. The attack had ties to Iran, they said. The Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington, D.C. were the intended targets of the bomb plot, and Saudi Arabian ambassador…
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