By Scott Stewart Mexicowill hold its presidential election July 1 against the backdrop of a protractedwar against criminal cartels in the country. Former President Vicente Fox ofthe National Action Party (PAN) launched that struggle; his successor, FelipeCalderon, also of the PAN, greatly expanded it. While many Mexicans apparentlysupport action against the cartels, the Calderon government has come under muchcriticism for its pursuit of the cartels, contributing to Calderon's lowpopularity at...Read Full Story
Mexican authorities found the bodies of three people, all with their throats slashed and bearing signs of torture, on a road near the northwestern town of San Ignacio, officials said.
All of the victims, including a 67-year-old woman, had been strangled and the three bodies had been dumped outside the school administration office for the town, located in Sinaloa state, a municipal police spokesperson said Friday.
Mexican army soldiers and state and municipal police cordoned off the area...Read Full Story
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials say they've arrested a man who manufactured methamphetamine for the Sinaloa drug cartel run by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. It's the latest in a series of arrests of associates of Guzman, the most wanted man in Mexico. Federal police say in a statement that 43-year-old Jaime Herrera Herrera was captured in the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa and was one of the principal producers of methamphetamine for Guzman's cartel. They say he is wanted by authorities...Read Full Story
The Justice Department told the U.S. Congress that the Sinaloa cartel, headed by Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, uses US “business-fronts” to launder their profits in America.
Jennifer Shasky, chief of the Section of Forfeiture and Money Laundering Criminal Division of the Justice Department, said that “U.S. law enforcement agencies believe that the Sinaloa cartel, one of the largest drug trafficking organizations in Mexico, using companies in the United States- to launder drug proceeds...Read Full Story
MEXICO CITY – Mexican officials say they've arrested a man who manufactured methamphetamine for the Sinaloa drug cartel run by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. It's the latest in a series of arrests of associates of Guzman, the most wanted man in Mexico.Read Full Story
Mexico City - The drug lord Joaquin Guzman, also known by his alias 'El Chapo,' is the most challenging runaway for Mexico and the United States. Eleven years after escaping from prison in a laundry trolley on January 19, 2001, the boss of the ...
MEXICO CITY - Mexican officials said Tuesday they have arrested a man who manufactured methamphetamine for the Sinaloa drug cartel run by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. | PHOTOS: DRUG CARTEL VIOLENCE
It's the latest in a series of arrests of associates of Guzman, the most wanted man in Mexico. Federal police say in a statement that 43-year-old Jaime Herrera Herrera was captured in the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa and was one of the ...
CULIACAN, Mexico, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The alleged head of security for Sinaloa cartel leader, Joaquin Guzman Loera, known as "El Chapo," was arrested, Mexican Defense Ministry officials said. Defense Ministry officials said the detainee ...
Luis Alberto Cabrera Sarabia was responsible for the operations of Guzman's Sinaloa Cartel in Durango and part of the neighboring state of Chihuahua, army spokesman Gen. Ricardo Trevilla said. The army says Sarabia is know as "The Architect ...
The Treasury Department branded Mexican nationals Oscar Alvarez Zepeda and Joel Valdez Benites and Colombian national Carlos Mario Torres Hoyos as Specially ... material support to Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquin Guzman Loera, aka Chapo Guzman, and have ...
The US Department of the Treasury called Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman “the world’s most powerful drug trafficker” on Tuesday. The fugitive Sinaloa cartel leader also got a boost from Mexican actress Kate del Castillo ...
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Joaquín Guzmán Loera, (April 4, 1954) also known as Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán ("Shorty"), is the head of an international drug trafficking organization referred to as the ...