By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The DEA is hailing the latest capture of a major Mexican drug lord, who was known to boil the body parts of his rivals in lye. Mexican authorities on Tuesday captured drug lord Teodor Eduardo Garcia Simental just south of the California border, the New York Times reported. ”This…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — If there’s any doubt the narco-terror war in Mexico is real and getting crazier– just look to Saturday: 69 people were murdered, including 26 in the border town of Ciudad Juarez, the Associated Press is reporting. In 2009, Mexico recorded more than 6,500 drug related murders. The AP reports…
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…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The death on Wednesday of Mexican drug kingpin Arturo Beltran Leyva, who claimed to be the “boss of bosses”, may be a big victory for the Mexican and American governments, but it certainly won’t spell the end to the violent grip the cartels have on the country. In fact,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mexican authorities, acting on info from U.S. federal investigators, shut down a yet to be completed underground tunnel on Wednesday that originated in Tijuana, Mexico and extended 860 feet into San Diego. The tunnel, measuring just under 1000 feet in length and 90 to 100 feet in depth, had lighting, ventilation…
The war on drugs in Mexico is more than just a war on the flow of cocaine and other drugs. It’s about stability in the Mexican government, law and order, mass murder, fear and the corruption of American law enforcement agents. When so much money is involved, it takes a lot to bring things under…
This is a good good initiative. We just need more of these because the violent Mexican drug cartels aren’t going away, not so long as business remains brisk. By Juan A. Lozano Associated Press Writer HOUSTON- A four-month effort to stop the flow of firearms from the U.S. to Mexican drug cartels has helped law…
How can you battle the violent drug cartels when you have police departments that are powerless and underfunded like this? The Mexican president hopes to change some of this. We’ll see if he can pull this off. By Chris Hawley Arizona Republic Mexico City Bureau URAUPAN, Mexico — One of the police station’s doors is…
