Tag Archives : organized crime

“It was like being the Super-Man or James Bond” said Rosalio Reta to the detectives who arrested him, boy who was only 13 years old when he was recruited by a Mexican drug cartels, called the Zetas, because of promises of good payments , expensive cars and sexy women. He was only one of many teenagers who were recruited by the cartels. But [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Mario Puzo’s ‘The Godfather,’ what may now be considered classic literature on the Mafia, started a new genre in 1969. Its film adaptations also revolutionized the world of cinema with the Francis Ford Coppola trilogy. Puzo was undeniably the first who dared to venture into disclosing the dark world of the Mafia, beyond all the available pulp [...]