Americas

After Murders in Matamoros, the Gulf Cartel Spins an Apology

Philip Luke Johnson / NACLA Mar 22, 2023 Narco-messages are fairly common, and just as often, not sincere. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Mexico Gunbattle Underscores How Government Has Ceded to Cartels

MARK STEVENSON / The Associated Press Oct 19, 2019 But Friday's massive battle in Culiacan, capital of Sinaloa state, was shocking for the government's open capitulation to the brazen gunmen. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

El Chapo

Milt Priggee, www.miltpriggee.com. Cagle Cartoons Jul 23, 2015 Dig deeper

Mexico’s Breaking Point

Roisin Davis / Truthdig Nov 21, 2014 So deeply has this incident shaken the country that, as author Ruben Martinez describes it, “To understand the historical significance -- and the moral and political gravity -- of what is occurring, think of 9/11, of Sandy Hook, of the day JFK was assassinated.” Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Los Angeles Called ‘Epicenter’ of Cartel Money Laundering

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Sep 11, 2014 Agents from the FBI and ICE swept through downtown L.A.’s fashion district on Wednesday, grabbing $65 million that allegedly belongs to Mexican drug traffickers. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Dozens Arrested in Arizona Drug Bust

Staff / Truthdig Oct 31, 2011 After a 17-month investigation led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, federal, state and local authorities cracked down on a vast drug-smuggling network in Arizona that officials tied to Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, making 76 arrests in three separate raids. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Free-Market Anarchy and Nihilism in Mexico

Staff / Truthdig Jun 21, 2011 For the future of unchecked global capitalism, look to the savagery of the drug war in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, says The Guardian's Ed Vulliamy. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Cartel Wars

Michael Deibert / Truthdig May 17, 2011 In the annals of a conflict that has killed more than 34,600 since Mexican President Felipe Calderon militarized his country’s battle against drug traffickers in December 2006, the conflict in Tamaulipas is writing a new and bloody chapter. Like Jesús Malverde, Santa Muerte has become an object of veneration among Mexico’s criminals. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Suspect in Mexican Drug Killings Captured

Staff / Truthdig Apr 18, 2011 The Mexican government has reportedly captured Martin "El Kilo" Omar Estrada Luna, a leader of the Zetas drug gang that is suspected of killing more than 100 people in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Mexico’s Drug War Prompts Exodus

Staff / Truthdig Mar 26, 2011 Mexico’s drug war has been blamed for the deaths of more than 34,000 people, and now comes a report showing that the violence has uprooted nearly a quarter of a million people south of the border, with many of them thought to have fled to the U.S. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

2010 Bloodiest Year Yet in Mexico

Staff / Truthdig Jan 16, 2011 Estimates now place 2010 as the bloodiest year yet in Mexico’s ongoing war against the drug cartels. Drug-related conflict led to the deaths of more than 15,000 people last year as the government and cartels continued to do battle across the country. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

21 Bodies Turn Up in Acapulco

Staff / Truthdig Jan 10, 2011 Fifteen decapitated bodies were found strewn outside an Acapulco shopping center Sunday and six more bodies were discovered in a taxicab as a bloody turf war rages in the resort city over control of drug shipment routes. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )