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Drug Violence Continues to Plague Mexico
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Rival Prison Gangs Working Together on Outside with Drug Cartels, Feds Say
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Sometimes law enforcement wishes not everyone got along. USA Today reports that rival prison gangs like the Aryan Brotherhood and the Mexican Mafia “are brokering unusual criminal alliances outside prison to assist Mexican drug cartel operations in the U.S. and Mexico.” Inside the prisons, the paper reported, the groups…
Mexico Shows it’s Not Backing Down in Deadly War; Arrests Brother of Dead Drug Cartel Boss
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In a bloody bloody drug war south of the border, the Mexican government is showing signs that it’s not backing down. The Associated Press is reporting that Mexican authorities have captured Carolos Beltran Leyva, the brother Beltran Leyva, a major drug boss who was gunned down in a military raid last…
Home Grown Pot Cutting into Mexican Cartels’ Bottom Line
This is an interesting twist in the drug war. It will be interesting to see how this shakes out and how the Mexican Cartels react. Then again, this won’t put the cartels out of business. They seem to be doing fine financially. By Steve Fainaru and William Booth Washington Post Foreign Service ARCATA, Calif. —…
Ex-High Ranking U.S. Anti-Drug Official Arrested For Helping Mexican Cartels
We keep assuming that the corruption is limited to the Mexican government — and not the U.S. — when it comes to the violent war on drugs in Mexico. But people like Richard Padilla Cramer are a reminder that the problem long ago crept over the border. Greed knows no geographical boundary. By Sebastian Rotella…
ATF Concerned About Drug Cartels Using Hand Grenades in U.S.
The drug war in Mexico is deadly enough, and hand grenades have made it even deadlier. Will we start seeing drug traffickers use handgrenades in the U.S.? By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press Writer PHOENIX — It was a scenario U.S. law enforcement had long feared: A fragmentation grenade from Mexico’s bloody drug war tossed into…
ATF Busts Gun Traffickers With Possible Link to Mexican Drug Cartel
This certainly won’t put an end to the drug violence, but any bust that possibly involves the Mexican drug cartels is good. By Ruben Vives Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — Four men were taken into federal custody this morning after a raid on a gun-trafficking ring that may be tied to a Mexican drug…