Commentary It sounds like the plot of a Robert De Niro movie. A powerful criminal organization uses casinos to launder drug money into “clean” cash that can then be used to purchase international real estate by corrupt politicians. It’s the kind of scheme one would expect to find in Las Vegas back in the 1960s,…
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11 Killed in Western Mexico State of Michoacan
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Cartels Using Narco Slaves to Grow Illegal Marijuana on Industrial Scale in Oregon
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In Mexico, Cartels Are Hunting Down Police at Their Homes
MEXICO CITY—The notoriously violent Jalisco cartel has responded to Mexico’s “hugs, not bullets” policy with a policy of its own: The cartel kidnapped several members of an elite police force in the state of Guanajuato, tortured them to obtain names and addresses of fellow officers and is now hunting down and killing police at their…
Video: How Drug Cartels Prey on Migrants—Jaeson Jones
March 11, 2021
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Near the southern border, highly militarized cartels in Mexico vie for control and charge thousands of dollars per migrant. They’ve exploited corruption and essentially become a “parallel government” in border areas, says retired Texas Department of Public Safety Captain Jaeson Jones. “People to them are a commodity,” he says. In this episode, Jones breaks down…
California-Mexico Coalition Helps Women, Girls in Sex Trade ‘Tolerance Zone’
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