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Mexico has been besieged by gigantic drug cartels that have been causing widespread violence in the country. Drug violence in Mexico has been particularly alarming in 2009. It is said that there are two kinds of cartel wars in Mexico: the government of Mexico vs. drug cartels and the various cartels fighting one another. This is for the obvious reason [...]

Designer drugs like Ecstasy and crystal meth are on the rise worldwide. On the other hand, the demand for conventional drugs such as cocaine and cannabis decreases. These are some of the conclusions presented in the recently published World Drug Report by the United Nations. Global demand for cocaine, opiates, and cannabis is stagnant or shrinking, [...]

The founder of the Mexican drug cartel ‘The Gulf,’ Gregorio Sauceda alias ‘El Goyo,’ ‘El Caramuela,’ or ‘Metro 2’ and one of the US DEA most wanted has been arrested in Mexico. Sauceda was apprehended in Matamoros on the US border, in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas. Sauceda is accused of organized crime and violations [...]

Six federal police officers and two prison officers were killed in western Mexico during a confrontation in which the attackers tried unsuccessfully to free nine criminals, including a major player in the Beltran Leyva brothers’ Sinaloa cartel. This group has been tagged as the most notorious and influential drug cartel operating in Mexico today. [...]

The Mexican Congress began discussing the possibility of allowing the controlled consumption of marijuana as the government of Felipe Calderón thumps a crucial battle against drug cartels that threaten the country’s security and stability. The debate on the topic to be discussed at a forum this week was put in place while tens of thousands of policemen [...]

In the first three months of 2009, drug-related killings in Mexico were recorded at total 2,644 cases or 26% less than the previous three months, said Alejandro Rubido, government spokesman on security matters. The statistics prove that the violence of organized crime in Mexico has dipped. The Security Cabinet attributes the significant reduction in [...]

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced during a visit to Mexico that a joint US-Mexico office shall be established as a coordinating group for all combined and collective action against drug trafficking that has been affecting both countries. In a press conference with his Mexican counterpart, Patricia Espinosa, Clinton also announced that [...]

Mexican soldiers seized in a clandestine laboratory 8.5 tons of the synthetic drug methamphetamine or meth known as ‘crystal’ or ‘crystal meth.’ This was the biggest haul intercepted in the country for such a drug, thus far. One pound of methamphetamine is equivalent to 8,000 doses. In addition, $205 million in cash were also seized, the largest [...]

The number of government soldiers and police that Mexican President Felipe Calderon has sent on a troop surge to combat narco-terrorism in Ciudad Juarez is 11,000. The Mexico-US border town, gleaning from the war-like environment it is in now, is a no man’s land where drug cartel syndicate gangsters cleverly evade one another and the Mexican military [...]

The huge consumption of drugs in the US is responsible for unmitigated drug trafficking. Mexico President Felipe Calderon believes that drug trafficking is facilitated by the consumption of illegal drugs in the United States and corruption in the administration of the neighboring country’s government. He calls on US President Barack Obama to put [...]