02/02/2023 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
War on Drugs - Mexico’s cartel corruption on trial
The poster boy for the War on Drugs is in the dock.It is no big secret that Mexican police officers moonlight for drug traffickers. As far back as 2010, a state commander nicknamed “El Tyson” admitted in a confession video on national television that he was not only a high-ranking cartel member, but that he made young narco recruits cut up bodies to lose their fear of blood. El Tyson was arrested by the federal police when it was controlled by Genaro García Luna, a square-jawed intelligence agent who was a key architect of the country’s war on cartels.
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07/12/2022 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Mexican cartels have turned to fentanyl: Smugglers are flooding the border with opioids
In the hills of Mexico City’s luxurious Lomas suburb, close to an embassy and UN offices, is a white pillared mansion that was the site of the world’s biggest ever drug cash bust. In 2007, Mexican federal agents stormed through its ornamental gates to discover a mountain of $205 million in bills, along with pesos, Euros and Hong Kong dollars. It did not, however, belong to one of Mexico’s scarred and bloodthirsty drug lords from the mountains; instead it was the property of the suited Chinese-born businessman Zhenli Ye Gon.
Ye Gon was making his fortune, say US and Mexican prosecutors, by importing the flu medicine pseudoephedrine from Chinese labs and selling it to Mexican gangsters who cooked it into crystal meth to traffic to the United States.
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24/02/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
How Gangster Warlords Came to Rule Latin America's Slums
In this excerpt from his new book "Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America," journalist Ioan Grillo travels deep into a Rio de Janeiro favela dominated by the Red Command drug gang.
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21/07/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico Govt Struggles to Control Cartel-Run Highways
The continued presence of criminal groups along some of Mexicos highways, especially in the embattled northeast, has become a litmus test for just how much control the government really has in certain parts of the country.
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21/01/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Jamaica's Organized Crime After the Fall of Dudus Coke
Entering the Tivoli Gardens ghetto in West Kingston, scars of the battle to arrest Jamaica's most infamous criminal kingpin, Christopher "Dudus" Coke, in May 2010, are everywhere.
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13/08/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - The Mexican Drug Cartels Other Business: Sex Trafficking
Narco gangs, including the Zetas, have diversified their portfolio to include buying and selling women as slaves.
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15/07/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
"El Narco is riveting, authoritative reporting from the front lines of the Mexican drug wars. What's happening there has explosive potential consequences for every American, and Ioan Grillo's book shows you why." - Dan Rather.
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06/07/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Drug war fury awaits Mexico's Pena Nieto
In the two days after Enrique Pena Nieto smiled under confetti to celebrate his presidential election win in Mexico, a car bomb killed two policemen, assailants opened fire on a wake near the U.S. border and rival gunmen left 10 dead near the capital.
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11/06/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mxico - Insurgencia a la mexicana
En coincidencia con los tiempos en que un crtel del narcotrfico acenta sus tintes de insurgencia con el incendio masivo de vehculos de Sabritas en Guanajuato y Michoacn, aparece el libro El narco. En el corazn de la insurgencia criminal mexicana. Escrito por el periodista britnico Ioan Grillo para el sello Ediciones Urano, esta obra revisa el concepto explcito en el ttulo y lo apuntala a la luz del modus operandi desplegado progresivamente por las organizaciones criminales mexicanas.
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24/09/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - President OK on legalizing pot?
What President Felipe Calderons drug-policy shift means.
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08/09/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Paying for your life in Mexico
The cost of doing business in Mexico now involves bribing drug cartels.At a construction site of an apartment building in the heart of the Mexican capital, a company engineer runs through his weekly payroll sheet.
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08/09/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Paying for your life in Mexico
The cost of doing business in Mexico now involves bribing drug cartels.At a construction site of an apartment building in the heart of the Mexican capital, a company engineer runs through his weekly payroll sheet.
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01/08/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Decoding Mexicos murder mayhem
New numbers show Mexico could be in for its bloodiest year yet.
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06/07/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - New cartel on the block
The Knights Templar claim to be crusading Christian soldiers as bodies pile up.
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06/07/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - New cartel on the block
The Knights Templar claim to be crusading Christian soldiers as bodies pile up.
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13/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Mexicos Arab moment
Protesters demand the resignation of Mexicos top drug war official.
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13/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Mexicos Arab moment
Protesters demand the resignation of Mexicos top drug war official.
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05/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Can security reform save Mexico?
Mexico looks at martial law powers and new national police in face of security crisis.
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05/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Can security reform save Mexico?
Mexico looks at martial law powers and new national police in face of security crisis.
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21/01/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico's Ex-President Vicente Fox: Legalize Drugs
As Mexico drowns in drug related bloodshed suffering almost 12,000 murders in 2010 it is perhaps unsurprising that government critics turn up their screaming that the war on drugs isn't working.
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06/01/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico's secular Taliban
Catholic Church lashes out at the liberal Mexico City government for "immorality."
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09/11/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico's Lost Youth: Generation Narco
The grainy video of torture and murder looks like so many that have come out of Mexico this year: a bleeding man is tied to a chair; the victim screams for mercy; an assassin's hand swings in with a machete. However, when soldiers on Oct. 29 stormed a house in central Mexico where the snuff film was allegedly made, they uncovered a brutal detail. The gangsters behind the terror were not just veterans of the narco wars, but included several 18- and 19-year olds. The teenagers, paraded before the press with acne, scruffy hair and loud t-shirts, were also accused of hanging victims from freeway bridges, genitals sliced from their bodies.
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16/09/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Can Mexican cartels be defeated?
Analysis: The string of high-profile arrests of alleged drug kingpins won't end the drug war.
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27/07/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
In Juarez car bomb, a ruthless trap for police
Raids on American-owned explosives could be behind sophisticated car bomb.
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14/07/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - 7 circles of Juarez
If Dante had ever been to Juarez he would have placed it squarely in the seventh circle of hell, the one housing "violence" and "ringed by a river of boiling blood."
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22/02/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
How Mexico's Drug War May Become Its Iraq
The no-nonsense government ads flash onto prime-time Mexican TV between soccer games and steamy soap operas. Bullet-filled corpses are shown sprawled on the concrete; ski-masked special forces are seen storming down residential streets; and bearded bulky capos are dragged before the cameras in handcuffs. "Today these killers are behind bars," says a booming voice-over. "We work using force for your security."
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16/12/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Drug cartels to Mexican businesses: pay up
Criminals are carrying out widespread extortion rackets, insisting business pay up or face brutal repercussions.
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16/12/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Drug cartels to Mexican businesses: pay up
Criminals are carrying out widespread extortion rackets, insisting business pay up or face brutal repercussions.
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21/10/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Drug decriminalization : 'Legalize it' lobby gains strength across Americas
Mexico and other Latin American countries are moving toward drug decriminalization and Washington isn't complaining.After carefully packing light green Mexican marijuana into a homemade water pipe, university student Salvador Chavez drew a deep breath from the tube and blew the smoke out of the window of his modest family home.
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10/08/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
On Obama's Mexico Agenda: Stopping the Guns from El Norte
The camcorder shakes as it films the thud of thick .50 caliber bullets ripping through a steel plate target in the heat of the Arizona desert. Panning across the jagged rocks and cacti, the camera then focuses on the shooter: a smiling Mexican sitting down on the dust as he uses both hands to fire the huge state-of-the-art weapon that can tear through tank armor.
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10/08/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
On Obama's Mexico Agenda: Stopping the Guns from El Norte
The camcorder shakes as it films the thud of thick .50 caliber bullets ripping through a steel plate target in the heat of the Arizona desert. Panning across the jagged rocks and cacti, the camera then focuses on the shooter: a smiling Mexican sitting down on the dust as he uses both hands to fire the huge state-of-the-art weapon that can tear through tank armor.
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09/04/2008 | En Parrilla
A Vodka Tonic for Mexico's Loss?
The contours of the billboard map of Mexico and its neighbors may have been familiar, but not its political boundaries: California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas were shaded in the green of a Mexico that stretched from close to Canada to the jungles of Guatemala. "In an Absolut World!" the billboard proclaimed, alongside the image of a bottle of Absolut vodka.
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30/12/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Who Is Killing Mexico's Musicians?
Since the 1990s, popular Mexican singers have been increasingly crooning about Kalashnikovs and cocaine alongside their traditional ballads of hard work and lost love. Take "Contraband in the Border" by Valentin Elizalde, one of the thousands of drug ballads or narco corridos that are played in cantinas and parties from the mountains of Mexico to the immigrant ghettos of Los Angeles.
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