Tag Archives : drug-related violence

Since his ascension to the highest office in the land in 2006, Mexican President Felipe Calderon has deployed more than 35,000 federal troops in security operations around the country. The extensive use of Mexican military in counternarcotics operations has met considerable criticism. Calderon has widely defended his strategy since the drug trafficking [...]

First, be a top Mexican drug lord, then aim to be the ‘Godfather of Mexican Cocaine,’ next write down your experience, then hope that your writings get into the hands of an investigative journalist. Miguel Angel Félix Gallardo did just those. His writings, portions of which were passed to investigative journalist Diego Osorno and published this [...]

Mexican federal police dealt a heavy blow to the drug cartel known as ‘The Family’ which operates in western and southern Mexico. The arrests of the criminal syndicate’s 44 members happened during a christening celebration. The police operation, planned for six months, took place in a social center along the main street in the east side of the [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Amid a drug war and trade dispute, US President Barack Obama will visit Mexico on April 16. Obama is currently studying a possible military deployment on the US-Mexico border to help solve the problems of escalating drug-related violence, particularly in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico where Mexican President Felipe Calderon has already sent 11,000 troops composed [...]

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 [...]