Mexico’s most famous drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera, regularly paid $5,000 to have girls as young as 13-years-old drugged and brought to him for sexual intercourse, court records allege.
The son of one of the top leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel testified that former Mexican President Vicente Fox’s chief bodyguard worked for them. The bodyguard was one of several top military figures that received large cash bribes in exchange for favors and information.
The Mexican military disarmed and replaced the entire police force in the beach resort town of Acapulco. The move comes as part of an investigation into the agency’s ties to drug cartels.
The U.S. State Department is wasting our tax dollars in Mexico on a series of programs tied to the Merida Initiative to battle cartels and drug trafficking. Transnational criminal organizations (cartels) based in Mexico thrive as the U.S. State Department balances U.S. law enforcement agencies’ priorities with diplomatic concerns, often placing politics and diplomacy above priorities such as dismantling the criminal networks pumping narcotics across the border into U.S. communities.
The mayor of a rural community in this southern state has been outed as an ally of one of Mexico’s most violent cartels. The politician was outed by a cartel gunman who was tortured and murdered by his rivals.
El alcalde de una comunidad rural en este estado sureño ha sido señalado como aliado de uno de los cárteles más violentos de México. El político fue señalado por un sicario del cártel que fue torturado y asesinado por sus rivales.
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas — Un comando armado entro an un rancho propiedad de uno de los prestanombres de un ex-gobernador ligado al crimen organizado para ejecutar al vaquero y matar a 15 caballos de raza fina.
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas — A team of gunmen stormed a ranch owned by one of the close associates of a former governor linked to organized crime to execute a hand and kill 15 high-value horses.
Dos agentes especializados en investigar a los carteles de la droga fueron secuestrados por uno de los mismos carteles que investigan. A punta de pistola, los agentes fueron forzados a grabar un video donde dicen que el gobierno roba, tortura y secuestra a los criminales con impunidad total y que los carteles se han cansado. Se desconoce el paradero de los agentes.
Two Mexican federal agents investigating drug cartels were kidnapped by the same people they had been tracking. At gunpoint, the officers were forced to record a video where they say that the government steals, tortures, and kidnaps cartel members with complete impunity. Their whereabouts are currently unknown.
Authorities in this border city are working to track down a team of cartel hitmen who raided a home in an attempt to kill a local drug smuggler.
Las autoridades de esta ciudad fronteriza están trabajando para rastrear a un equipo de sicarios del cártel que irrumpieron en una casa en un intento de matar a un traficante de drogas local.
SALTILLO, Coahuila — El alcalde de un municipio rural de este estado fronterizo se mantiene en silencio luego de que policías federales encontraron un cargamento de marijuana en un camión que presuntamente pertenece a su compañía de transportes.
SALTILLO, Coahuila — The mayor of a rural municipality in this border state is silent after federal police found a shipment of marijuana in a truck that allegedly belongs to his transportation company.
Un alto comandante y 4 agentes de la Policía Federal asignados a realizar tareas de inteligencia en la región fronteriza fueron arrestados tras ser acusados de proteger y filtrar información oficial a un grupo del Cártel del Golfo (CDG) que se enfocaba en el robo de combustible en Nuevo León y Tamaulipas.
Police in Mexico arrested a top commander and four agents of the nation’s federal police unit assigned to carrying out intelligence operations along the border region. Authorities discovered the federal cops were serving Mexico’s Gulf Cartel.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Cuatro policías municipales de la ciudad de Saltillo han sido arrestados y enfrentan cargos por secuestro agravado. Los policías están acusados de usar su puesto para secuestrar y extorsionar a sus víctimas.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Four police officers from Saltillo were arrested and are facing aggravated kidnapping charges. Prosecutors say they used their badges to kidnap and extort innocent victims.
Mientras que el gobierno Mexicano públicamente dice estar luchando en contra de los carteles de la droga, un juez federal sigilosamente dejo en libertad al líder fundador de uno de los carteles mas poderosos y peligrosos del país. La razón por dejarlo en libertad, la presunta falta de pruebas.
While the Mexican government claims to be waging a war against drug cartels, a federal judge quietly released the founding leader of one of the most dangerous organizations in the country due to lacking evidence.
A Mexican federal judge ruled that former a border state governor linked to cartels and a fugitive in Texas should not be extradited.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Un tribunal militar mexicano dictaminó en contra de 8 soldados mexicanos que habían sido condenados anteriormente por trabajar para el cártel de Los Zetas. Los soldados habían ayudado al despiadado cártel filtrando información y ayudándoles a llevar a cabo diversas actividades delictivas.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — A Mexican military tribunal sentenced eight soldiers convicted of working for Los Zetas. The soldiers helped the ruthless cartel by leaking information and providing operational assistance.
A new report by one of Mexico’s top newspapers points to a sophisticated effort by Russian operators to influence the upcoming 2018 Mexican presidential election. The efforts appear to be based on the use of misinformation to create discord within Mexico.
Dos policías municipales de este estado fronterizo han sido ligados al secuestro y ejecución de un empresario y su secretaria como parte de la narco-guerra que sigue azotando la región. Uno de los policías presuntamente falleció por suicidio dentro del penal.
Officials tied two local police officers from this border state to the kidnapping and execution of a businessman and his secretary as part of the ongoing cartel war. One of the police officers later died from an apparent suicide inside a state prison.
State authorities in this border city shut down several businesses and hotels allegedly connected to a sex trafficking and forced prostitution investigation linked to the mayor’s husband. Officials say her husband is identified as part-owner of some brothels in Reynosa.
MEXICO CITY, Mexico — The raging cartel violence spreading throughout the country has marked 2017 as the bloodiest year since 1997 when the government began documenting such murders. The official figures, however, pale in comparison to reality since they do not account for the number of victims “disappeared” by cartel gunmen–including those who were incinerated or buried in clandestine graves.
A case being heard in a Mexican border state court exposed Mexico’s Tax Office (SAT) and ruling party for allegedly funneling millions in state funds into political campaigns. The movement of funds allegedly occurred during the 2016 election.
MONTERREY, Nuevo León– Dos policías del municipio rural del Hidalgo han sido arrestados en conexión a ejecuciones y otras actividades violentas a favor del cartel de Los Zetas Vieja Escuela. Uno de los presuntos narco-policias es el hermano del director de la policía municipal y el grupo tenia un arsenal escondido en un a casa de seguridad.
MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon — Two police officers from rural Hidalgo were arrested in connection with executions and other violent activities for Los Zetas Vieja Escuela Cartel. One of the alleged narco-cops is the brother of the local police director. The pair had an arsenal of weapons at a stash house.
A press freedom organization has ranked Mexico as the deadliest country for journalists, overtaking Iraq and Syria for the highest number of reporters who lost their lives while practicing their craft. On the day the report was published, gunmen murdered another journalist in Mexico.
A group of unknown gunmen stormed a Mexican elementary school’s Christmas pageant and executed a veteran journalist watching his son’s performance.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – Una juez estatal de esta ciudad fronteriza, que tiene un historial de liberar a sicarios del cártel, también ha ordenado la liberación de presuntos traficantes de drogas alegando falta de pruebas u otros errores administrativos.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — A state judge from this border city who has a history of releasing cartel hitmen is now setting free suspected street-level drug dealers for lacking evidence or clerical errors.
Más de tres meses después de que las autoridades estatales de Tamaulipas arrestaran a un exgobernador de ese estado por cargos de malversación, el Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos emitió formalmente una solicitud de extradición solicitando que el ex político sea enviado a Texas donde es buscado por lavado de dinero federal y cargos de fraude.
More than three months after Tamaulipas authorities arrested a former governor on embezzlement charges, the U.S. Department of State has formally issued an extradition request, asking that the politician be sent to Texas for federal money laundering and fraud charges.
MORELIA, Michoacan — Close to two dozen villagers from towns in the southern part of Michoacan have lost their homes to the wrath of the Mexican drug cartels. The cartels continue to fight for control of the region while state officials
Las autoridades en el estado fronterizo de Coahuila han confirmado el descubrimiento de más de 3,000 fragmentos de huesos humanos en un campo de exterminio del cártel y sitio de incineración. El campo de exterminio fue descubierto en la parte suroeste del estado, un área que el Cártel de Sinaloa y Los Zetas pelearon durante años.
Authorities in Coahuila confirmed the discovery of more than 3,000 human bone fragments in a cartel killing field and incineration site. The remains were found in the southwestern part of the state; an area where the Sinaloa Cartel and Los Zetas fought for years.