10/12/2018 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - What is Behind AMLO's Security Policy U-Turn in Mexico?
Days before his inauguration, on December 1, Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced a pair of security initiatives that seemingly contradict his campaign proposals. But what is the reasoning behind the turnarounds?
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29/08/2018 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Análisis - Reformas institucionales propuestas en México no generarían cambios en seguridad
El presidente electo de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, ha aprovechado su período de transición antes de asumir el cargo en el mes de diciembre para poner en marcha una serie de propuestas de reforma a los organismos de seguridad del país. Pero la esencia de estos planes da cuenta de la vieja tendencia de México de recurrir a reorganizaciones innecesarias en lugar de mejorar las instituciones.
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07/06/2018 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Analysis - Don’t Expect Nuanced View of Crime When ¨Rambo¨ Takes On Mexico Cartel
The venerable action hero John Rambo is plotting a return to the silver screen, and he is taking his talent for mayhem and vengeance to Mexico. While fans may find the film entertaining, it’s unlikely to present a nuanced look at the country’s organized crime problems.
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23/12/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - New Study Offers Insight Into Zeta Tyranny
A new study of the Zetas’ operations in northern Mexico offers a detailed examination of the roots of the organization’s power as well as the extent of its reign of terror in 2011.
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19/12/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
New Study Offers Insight Into Zeta Tyranny
A new study of the Zetas’ operations in northern Mexico offers a detailed examination of the roots of the organization’s power as well as the extent of its reign of terror in 2011.
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01/12/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Drug War -Analysis: Mexico’s Michoacán a Tangle of Rivals
The struggle to fill the vacuum has sparked the wave of violence.The decline of the Caballeros Templarios has left Michoacán at the mercy of a tangle of rivals, none of whom appear able to reassert the supremacy that previously imposed a limit to the violence within the state.
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30/11/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Zetas-Gulf Cartel Conflict Continues to Rock Mexico's Northeast
The ongoing decline of the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas has left northeastern Mexico without a single dominant criminal force. But the crime groups’ longstanding rivalry has continued to see blood spilled in the key trafficking region.
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17/11/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Drug War: Zetas-Gulf Cartel Conflict Continues to Rock Mexico's Northeast
The ongoing decline of the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas has left northeastern Mexico without a single dominant criminal force. But the crime groups' longstanding rivalry has continued to see blood spilled in the key trafficking region.
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04/11/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Study Sheds New Light on Roots of Mexico Cartel Wars
A new study from two leading researchers ties Mexico's current security crisis to the unforeseen consequences of the nation's democratic opening.
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30/07/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Mexico's Spyware Scandal is a Gift for Organized Crime
Recent revelations about the government of Mexico's widespread use of spyware to monitor adversaries in the press and the human rights community represent a gift for organized crime.
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24/07/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico Spyware Scandal a Gift for Organized Crime
Recent revelations about the government of Mexico's widespread use of spyware to monitor adversaries in the press and the human rights community represent a gift for organized crime.
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08/07/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
New Book Presents Critique of US Organized Crime Policy, Then and Now
A new book presents a blistering critique of both the origins of the US approach to organized crime and the application of the current policy.
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05/02/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Why Mexico's Governors Became A Prime Target of Criminal Groups
A growing stream of corruption allegations against governors in Mexico exemplifies how changes in the country's political landscape have inadvertently served to expand these officials' role in enabling organized crime.
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30/09/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Illegal Mining a Golden Opportunity for Mexico Crime Groups
A prominent Mexican activist turned government official recently called attention to the ties between organized crime and the nation's mining industry, sounding an alarm that has grown increasingly loud in recent years.
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22/05/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - GPS Provision of Torture Law Unlikely to Limit Mexico Police Abuses
Mexico's proposal to use GPS tracking to prevent torture by security officials is another example of unnecessarily elaborate fixes to simple but intractable problems.
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14/04/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Drugs - Narconomics Applies Economic Toolbox to Organized Crime
A recent book by The Economist's former Mexico correspondent manages to deliver tons of information about the illegal drug trade in entertaining style but falls short the author's higher goal of providing a "blue print" for how to defeat the drug lords.
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06/02/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Cold War Expert Sees Parallels in Mexico's Drug War Struggles
Latin America's fate has long been tied to the conflicts of the United States, first in the Cold War and now the Drug War. But what insights does Mexico's experience in the Cold War provide for its current struggles against organized crime?.
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03/02/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Cold War Expert Sees Parallels in Mexico's Drug War Struggles
Latin America's fate has long been tied to the conflicts of the United States, first in the Cold War and now the Drug War. But what insights does Mexico's experience in the Cold War provide for its current struggles against organized crime?
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28/01/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
'El Chapo' Extradition Points to Mexico's Failures on Prison Reform
Mexico has intimated that it is working to expedite the extradition of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, a tacit admission that efforts to reform the prison system have fallen short of the requirements to ensure the safe custody of the nation's most dangerous criminals.
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25/11/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Cartel Land Paints Stunning, Dark Picture of Mexico Vigilantes
Perhaps the single most important factor explaining the power of organized crime in Mexico is government dysfunction. It is appropriate, then, that official missteps are the mostly unspoken core of Cartel Land, a new documentary from Matthew Heineman that divides its time between a vigilante group in Arizona and the self-defense militias of Michoacan.
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14/11/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
NarcoData Provides New Viewpoint of Mexico's Security Situation
A new project from two online media outlets in Mexico presents a fresh view of organized crime's role in the country and its development over the course of the last several decades.
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18/09/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico's Unreliable Crime Data Calls Govt's Claims Into Question
A new report indicates that one of Mexico’s principal systems for collecting crime data is riddled with errors, raising questions about the reliability of the conclusions regarding the nation's recent drop in murders.
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11/06/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico's New Generation Cartels Not Getting the Government Message
The ongoing aggression of Mexico's Jalisco Cartel - New Generation suggests the government's message to cartels to keep violence down or be dismantled is yet to sink in for the many of the next generation of up and coming criminal organizations.
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20/04/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
In Mexico, Public Perception Does Not Follow Improvements
A new government survey shows that public perception has not followed the unquestionable improvements in Mexican security over the past five years.
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27/01/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
New Report Examines Tamaulipas Security Strategy
A report from a prominent think tank tackles the new security strategy in Tamaulipas, one of Mexico's perennially conflictive northern states.
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17/12/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Conflict in Mexico's South Spurs Guerrilla Worries
The disappearance and presumed death of 43 student protesters in Iguala, Guerrero has sparked concerns of a new surge of guerilla movements in southern Mexico, but just how likely is it?
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03/12/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Peña Nieto's Mexico Police Reform Proposal Fails to Convince
Last week, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto responded to a growing swell of opposition to his government with a wide-ranging reform proposal, which would involve a massive reorganization of the police and new checks on executive behavior.
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03/11/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico Crime Survey Reveals Conflicting Trends
Mexico’s declining murder rate counts as a major accomplishment for President Enrique Peña Nieto, but the nation’s annual victimization survey indicates that the country remains beset by violent crime.
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21/10/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico Needlessly Plans to Alter Justice Agency
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has put forward a plan to radically reshape the nation’s Justice Department, the latest example of a long national pattern of unnecessary institutional reform disguised as progress.
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09/08/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico Steps Up Search for Rising Drug Boss 'Chapo Isidro'
The killing of a dozen alleged criminals in federal operations in Sinaloa state, Mexico, is one step in the government's concerted push to take down drug boss Fausto Isidro Meza Flores, aka "Chapo Isidro."
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30/06/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Identifying, Battling Key Agents in Mexico Gang Structures
A new report analyzing the operational structure of several Mexican gangs, including how different individuals serve specific purposes key to different criminal activities, offers a more complete portrayal of groups like The Zetas.
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23/06/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Evaluating the Zetas' Legacy in Mexico
While still among Mexico's most notorious criminal groups, the Zetas have lost leaders, territory and organizational strength at a rapid clip in recent years. What does their decline mean for Mexico?
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12/06/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
How Mexico Organized Crime Threatens Growth of Oil Industry
As Mexico works to implement its landmark oil reform, organized crime groups are mounting a nettlesome challenge, raising questions about their ability to undermine the nation's economic development.
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02/06/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
How Federal Security Deployments in Mexico Are Set Up to Fail
The recent wave of killings that has made the state of Tamaulipas one of Mexico's main drug war battlefields has prompted plans to send in federal troops to try and bring the region's underworld to heel. But can such a deployment ever loosen the grip of organized crime?
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25/05/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
How Mexico Public Perceptions Feed Security Problems
Mexico's newest survey of popular perceptions of public security reveals a country of citizens pessimistic about their physical integrity and distrustful of their leaders, as well as a government unable to make meaningful advances.
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27/03/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Report Puts Guatemala National Police Under the Microscope
A new report from a US researcher examines the performance of Guatemala's national police force, finding that despite a years-long boost in budgetary resources, the body is underperforming amid an enduring wave of violence.
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19/02/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Study of 2010 Mexico Murder Trends Offers Important Policy Clues
A new report from a US political science professor examines the causes and impacts of murders in Mexico, arriving at a handful of new policy prescriptions.
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30/01/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Why is Mexico's Knights Templar reaching out to rival cartels?
Authorities in Mexico found evidence of a budding alliance between the Knights Templar and Beltran Leyva drug cartels. Some say it's a sign that vigilante groups in Michoacán are 'working.'
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03/01/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico Justice Department Flags Growing Mara Presence
An easing of tension among the largest Mexican criminal groups has been counteracted by the growing influx of Central America's most notorious gangs, a development that, if continued, could challenge efforts to improve Mexican security for years to come.
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19/12/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Revelations of Mexico's Knights Templar Indoctrination Manual
A handbook for new members of the Knights Templar reflects the unique space the gang has carved out for itself in Mexico's criminal landscape.
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06/11/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Who Turned Out the Lights on Michoacan, Mexico?
A series of violent confrontations and seemingly indiscriminate attacks on local infrastructure has provoked questions about the governability of the western Mexican state of Michoacan, and has some politicians calling for extreme measures.
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18/10/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Knights Templar Test Narco-Insurgency Theory
In their fight against Mexico's government and their rivals, the Knights Templar employs a multifaceted strategy that targets all levels of society, offering the clearest illustration of what some analysts have termed narco-insurgency.
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05/10/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
How Tijuana's Criminal Virtuous Cycle Has Reduced Violence
A new report examines the factors behind Tijuana's relative lack of violence compared to other northern Mexico cities, and raises questions about whether the recent peace experienced in the city is sustainable.
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11/09/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
How Street Gangs Have Complicated Mexico Security
A new report from a Washington think tank examines the complex role of youth gangs in Mexico’s security challenges and offers recommendations to reduce their threat.
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08/09/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Limits to the Violence Deterrence Strategy in Mexico
A new report from a prominent analyst of regional security issues provides a detailed analysis of the limitations of a deterrence-based strategy in Mexico, something the Peña Nieto administration seems to be testing in its first year in office.
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24/08/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Is Violence Returning to Ciudad Juarez?
The drop in violence in Ciudad Juarez remains one of the most dramatic turnarounds of Mexico’s drug war, but a recent rise in killings raises questions about the durability of the gains.
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17/06/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Despite Mexico Security Improvements, Public Polls Betray Deep Worries
A government survey reveals how certain social behaviors in Mexico have changed due to public perceptions of crime, even though much of the country has seen violence levels plateau somewhat.
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25/04/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Texas Security Reports Point to Cross-Border Gang Alliances
The latest Texas Gang Threat Assessment offers a complex picture of the local organizations’ interactions with Mexican traffickers, painting a picture of collaboration rather than the much-feared spillover violence.
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09/03/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
What Forbes' Snub of 'Chapo' Guzman Means
Forbes' decision to remove Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the elusive leader of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, from its billionaires list corrects a questionable editorial judgment and reflects an ongoing shift away from the most powerful gangs as the cause of Mexico’s violence.
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03/03/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Peña Nieto's Best (and Worst) Ideas for Mexico's Security
A new report takes on Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s security policy, offering a detailed rundown of the objectives and limitations of the new leader’s plan.
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19/02/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Organized Crime Attacks on Press Continue to Plague Mexico
The recent kidnapping of five journalists in the northern Mexican city of Torreon highlights the city’s deteriorating security, and reflects an all-too-common pattern of media intimidation.
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09/02/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Chapito Isidro, Mexico's Newest Kingpin
US authorities have recently trained their crosshairs on Fausto Isidro Meza Flores, "Chapito Isidro," a low-profile Sinaloan trafficker who appears to be a major generator of violence in northwestern Mexico.
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25/01/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Impact of Obama's Gun Control Proposal in Mexico
President Obama’s push to enact stronger gun control measures answers a long-held wish from Mexican officials, but how likely is it to change the security dynamic south of the Rio Grande?
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11/01/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Violence Drops in Zetas Stronghold During Peña Nieto's First 30 Days
The first month of President Enrique Peña Nieto's administration appears to have offered no letup in the violence plaguing Mexico, but the patterns of murders have shifted in striking ways.
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29/12/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Drug War - Mexico Has 80 Drug Cartels: Attorney General
Mexico’s new attorney general put the number of drug cartels operating in the country at up to 80, reflecting a radical decentralization of power and profusion of smaller gangs in the Mexican underworld.
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24/12/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico Has 80 Drug Cartels: Attorney General
Mexico’s new attorney general put the number of drug cartels operating in the country at up to 80, reflecting a radical decentralization of power and profusion of smaller gangs in the Mexican underworld.
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05/12/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
What to Keep, What to Throw Away from Calderon Presidency
The exit of Felipe Calderon from the Mexican presidency on December 1 marks the end of an era in the country's battles with organized crime. Now Enrique Peña Nieto must build his own strategy on top of the framework left behind by his predecessor.
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24/11/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Capo's Claims Threaten Case Against Mexican Generals
Recent declarations from jailed Mexican capo “La Barbie” have weakened the case against a general accused of corruption, providing another example of the government’s inability to effectively prosecute corrupt officials.
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29/08/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico (Analysis) - Attack on US Embassy Employees Raises Concerns Over Mexico's Federal Police
The attack by Mexican federal police officers on a car carrying two US embassy officials in southern Mexico last week precipitates a new round of questions over the reliability of the agency.
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18/08/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Is Juarez Safer Because El Chapo Won the War?
Ciudad Juarez, the Mexican border town that has become a symbol of the wave of violence wracking the nation, has grown far safer in recent months, though the security gains could be due to 'El Chapo' consolidating his power.
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09/08/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Mexican Town Battles Livelihood Takeovers by Criminal Gangs
The article, which appeared in a recent edition ofProceso, reports from Cheran, southern Mexico, where the crime-weary residents took up arms to chase out criminals linked to the Familia Michoacana and the Caballeros Templarios last year. The response of the gangs has been brutal -- the authors report that 15 locals have since been murdered and another five have disappeared, but the townspeople have kept control of their municipality, despite what Proceso calls a lack of support from the state and federal governments.
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26/07/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Rumored Zetas Split Offers Bloody Prospects for Mexico
Reports of a split between the two leaders of Mexico’s notorious Zetas drug gang suggest that a violent power struggle may be brewing in the group's northeastern home turf, a conflict which could shake the established order in the country's criminal underworld.
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19/06/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Horse Racing Arrests Kick Off Bad Week for the Zetas
A string of arrests has rattled the Zetas' financial network as US and Mexican authorities targeted the group’s money laundering operations, which allegedly included a horse racing business in Oklahoma.
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17/06/2012 | Frente Externo
Mexico - Mexico Nearly Captures Elusive Capo, Avoiding Election 'Game-Changer'
One of Mexico’s foremost traffickers narrowly avoided capture by federal forces earlier this month, fueling speculation that the government is pursuing a major arrest capable of influencing the upcoming presidential election.
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17/06/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Drug War - Mexico, the Italian Cosa Nostra and the Worldwide Drug Trade
The investigation into the Gerardi operation demonstrates the degree to which Mexico has become a vital actor not merely in the US cocaine supply chain, but in the global drug trade. For a gang dedicated to moving South American cocaine to Europe, there was no inherent need for a Mexican connection, but the centrality of Mexican traffickers to the global trade drew the Gerardis to forge links with Mexican traffickers as early as 2002.
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06/06/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Italy Drug Sweep Reveals Cosa Nostra Operation in Northern Mexico
A ten-year investigation by Italian authorities into the nation’s drug trafficking networks offers a glimpse into the Italian mafia’s links with Mexican gangsters, and the role that the latter play in the global cocaine trade.
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28/05/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - How Mexico's Journalists Are Failed by the Government
Mexico has suffered a rash of deadly attacks against journalists, made worse by a report suggesting that some of those killed may have been named on a hit list seen by the government, which did little to protect them.
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24/05/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Arrests of Mexican Generals Offer Fodder for Conspiracy Theories
Last week’s arrests of three generals and a lieutenant colonel in Mexico has fueled widespread speculation over the factors at play behind the detentions, and their implications for the country's changing political and criminal landscapes.
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21/05/2012 | Transparencia
Mexico - Candidates' Proposals for Mexico Police Reform Could Drive Up Corruption
Mexico’s main presidential candidates have all embraced longstanding proposals to unite municipal police forces under a single command, but such a fix could actually make it harder for police to fight increasingly localized criminal groups.
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12/04/2012 | En Parrilla
Heedless US Officials Show Lack of Understanding of Mexico
Top US officials have made a series of gaffes on Mexico in recent weeks, sparking concern that the foreign government most involved in the country's fight against organized crime may be overlooking the details.
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02/04/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US Gaffes Highlight Misunderstandings of Mexico
Top US officials have made a series of gaffes on Mexico in recent weeks, sparking concern that the foreign government most involved in the country's fight against organized crime may be overlooking the details.
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22/03/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Oil Theft is Big Business for Mexican Gangs
Theft from Mexico's state oil company Pemex appears to have shifted from a small-scale criminal nuisance into big business, with actors such as the Zetas and Sinaloa Cartel increasingly getting involved.
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18/03/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Drug War - Southcom Sets Sights on Central America
The chief of the US Southern Command has suggested a growing interest in combating Central American criminal groups, though it’s not clear that greater involvement of the US military would have a positive impact on security in the region.
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18/03/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Drug War - Southcom Sets Sights on Central America
The chief of the US Southern Command has suggested a growing interest in combating Central American criminal groups, though it’s not clear that greater involvement of the US military would have a positive impact on security in the region.
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08/03/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico Gang Turns to Women to Hold Key City
In the midst of a years-long fight against the Zetas for control of prized sections of borderland territory, the Gulf Cartel is increasingly relying on a previously untapped resource: women.
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08/03/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico Gang Turns to Women to Hold Key City
In the midst of a years-long fight against the Zetas for control of prized sections of borderland territory, the Gulf Cartel is increasingly relying on a previously untapped resource: women.
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27/02/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
How to Fix Mexico's Broken Prisons
Mexico's prison system is slipping into anarchy, with inmates escaping and slaughtering one another at alarming rates. InSight Crime considers the consequences of this breakdown for justice in Mexico, and its possible solutions.
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27/02/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
How to Fix Mexico's Broken Prisons
Mexico's prison system is slipping into anarchy, with inmates escaping and slaughtering one another at alarming rates. InSight Crime considers the consequences of this breakdown for justice in Mexico, and its possible solutions.
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27/02/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
How to Fix Mexico's Broken Prisons
Mexico's prison system is slipping into anarchy, with inmates escaping and slaughtering one another at alarming rates. InSight Crime considers the consequences of this breakdown for justice in Mexico, and its possible solutions.
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22/02/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Drug War - Mexico cartels stronger than ever?
Recent report says Mexico's cartels are more powerful than they were when Calderón came to office, but this overlooks the fracturing of larger gangs, writes guest blogger Patrick Corcoran.
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22/02/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Drug War - Mexico cartels stronger than ever?
Recent report says Mexico's cartels are more powerful than they were when Calderón came to office, but this overlooks the fracturing of larger gangs, writes guest blogger Patrick Corcoran.
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22/02/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Drug War - Mexico cartels stronger than ever?
Recent report says Mexico's cartels are more powerful than they were when Calderón came to office, but this overlooks the fracturing of larger gangs, writes guest blogger Patrick Corcoran.
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19/10/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Strategic Studies Institute study: Drug violence in Mexico drives 'narco-refugees' into US
The number of 'narco-refugees,' Mexicans trying to escape drug violence by seeking asylum in the US, increased almost 50-fold from 2006 to 2008.
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11/08/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Italy's 'Ndrangheta Mafia: A Powerful Ally for the Zetas
The rise of the Zetas as not just a Mexican menace but as a significant power in the international drug trade has been helped along by its growing links to a sprawling Italian mafia group known as the ‘Ndrangheta.
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10/08/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico's Public Security Nightmares, Institutional Needs and Future Governance
On December 1, 2012, as Mexico’s next president takes office, high among the list of the most pressing problems confronting his (or her) administration will be public security—namely, the nation’s struggles with organized crime.
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03/08/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico, Colombia Talk Security, Tied by Drug Trade
While the presidents of Colombia and Mexico announce their good intentions at high-level talks, key security cooperation is already taking place in the form of military training exchanges between these two countries, bound together by their roles in the drug trade.
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30/07/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
New Gang Targets Zetas on Mexico Gulf Coast
An emerging criminal group, calling itself the "Zeta Killers," has announced its formation, promising to rid the Mexican state of Veracruz of the Zetas drug gang.
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10/07/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico Gangs Plant Drugs on Unwitting Mules
As high-ranking U.S. officials made a visit the southern border, the FBI warned that Mexican gangs are using unwitting civilians to smuggle drugs into the U.S., by planting them in the cars of people who cross the frontier on a daily basis.
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10/07/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico Gangs Plant Drugs on Unwitting Mules
As high-ranking U.S. officials made a visit the southern border, the FBI warned that Mexican gangs are using unwitting civilians to smuggle drugs into the U.S., by planting them in the cars of people who cross the frontier on a daily basis.
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28/06/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
A Survey of Mexico's Trafficking Networks
With just a little over a year left in his term, Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon is looking at a very different criminal landscape than when he took office in 2006, with the dominance of a handful of hegemonic groups replaced by a criminal free-for-all.
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28/06/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
A Survey of Mexico's Trafficking Networks
With just a little over a year left in his term, Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon is looking at a very different criminal landscape than when he took office in 2006, with the dominance of a handful of hegemonic groups replaced by a criminal free-for-all.
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15/06/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Ending 40 Years of Drug War: The Impact on Latin America
The 40th anniversary of Washington's war on drugs has sparked calls for the decriminalization of narcotics, but what may seem like common sense for the U.S. could spell disaster for Latin America.
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15/06/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Ending 40 Years of Drug War: The Impact on Latin America
The 40th anniversary of Washington's war on drugs has sparked calls for the decriminalization of narcotics, but what may seem like common sense for the U.S. could spell disaster for Latin America.
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07/06/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
El Salvador Military Weapons: More Trafficked than Stolen
El Salvador has called for regional action to stop weapons being stolen and sold to Mexican drug traffickers. But as a look at recent incidents in Central America shows, these "robberies" of weapons often seem more like inside jobs carried out by corrupt elements in the military.
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07/06/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Seeking an Alternative to Calderon's Crime Strategy
Four years after President Calderon declared war on Mexico's drug cartels, a policy which has been accompanied by surging violence across the country, policy expert Eduardo Guerrero has proposed a change in focus.
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07/06/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
El Salvador Military Weapons: More Trafficked than Stolen
El Salvador has called for regional action to stop weapons being stolen and sold to Mexican drug traffickers. But as a look at recent incidents in Central America shows, these "robberies" of weapons often seem more like inside jobs carried out by corrupt elements in the military.
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07/06/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Seeking an Alternative to Calderon's Crime Strategy
Four years after President Calderon declared war on Mexico's drug cartels, a policy which has been accompanied by surging violence across the country, policy expert Eduardo Guerrero has proposed a change in focus.
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24/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Guatemala Ex-Special Forces Arrested Over Mexico Massacre
The governor of Tabasco state, Mexico, announced that a group of Guatemalan former special forces, known as Kaibiles were responsible for the massacre of ten people at an auto repair shop on May 17 in Cardenas.
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24/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Guatemala Ex-Special Forces Arrested Over Mexico Massacre
The governor of Tabasco state, Mexico, announced that a group of Guatemalan former special forces, known as Kaibiles were responsible for the massacre of ten people at an auto repair shop on May 17 in Cardenas.
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19/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Texis Cartel Controls El Salvador Cocaine Route
El Salvador's drug trade gets relatively little attention, overshadowed by the chaos in Mexico, but a new investigation cast light on the rise of the Texis Cartel, a group playing an increasingly important role in trafficking through Central America.
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19/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Texis Cartel Controls El Salvador Cocaine Route
El Salvador's drug trade gets relatively little attention, overshadowed by the chaos in Mexico, but a new investigation cast light on the rise of the Texis Cartel, a group playing an increasingly important role in trafficking through Central America.
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14/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Riot, Decapitation Spell Chaos in Mexico's Prisons
In one week Mexico has seen the army called in to break up a deadly riot in one prison, and the discovery of the severed head of an official from another, in signs of the spiralling chaos inside many of the country's prisons.
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14/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Riot, Decapitation Spell Chaos in Mexico's Prisons
In one week Mexico has seen the army called in to break up a deadly riot in one prison, and the discovery of the severed head of an official from another, in signs of the spiralling chaos inside many of the country's prisons.
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15/04/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexican Cartels Expand into Honduras
Honduran officials report that Mexican drug traffickers are expanding their activities in country and forming links with local bosses in four different provinces, furthering a growing perception that organized crime is overwhelming the region.
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10/02/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico's Drug Cartels: Musical Chairs or Atomization?
Mexico is not known for its start-up ventures, whether in legitimate business or in organized crime. What Telmex and Televisa are to the world of legal commerce -- unrepentant monopolists or oligopolists, ruthlessly opposed to new players in their respective industries -- the Sinaloa cartel and the Zetas are to the nation's underworld.
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14/12/2009 | Frente Externo
For Mexico's Calderón, Cabinet Moves Reflect Loyalist Bias
On Dec. 9, Mexican President Felipe Calderón tabbed Finance Minister Agustín Carstens to head the nation's central bank, known as Banxico. Carstens replaces Guillermo Ortiz, a highly respected official who had occupied the post for 12 years.
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14/12/2009 | Frente Externo
For Mexico's Calderón, Cabinet Moves Reflect Loyalist Bias
On Dec. 9, Mexican President Felipe Calderón tabbed Finance Minister Agustín Carstens to head the nation's central bank, known as Banxico. Carstens replaces Guillermo Ortiz, a highly respected official who had occupied the post for 12 years.
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