Pangas, Trickery, Intimidation, and Drug Trafficking in California
Pangas, Trickery, Intimidation, and Drug Trafficking in California
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FARC Plays Dominoes as Drug Cartels Occupy Colombian Villages
FARC Plays Dominoes as Drug Cartels Occupy Colombian Villages
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Hooked: Mexico’s Violence and U.S. Demand for Drugs
Hooked: Mexico’s Violence and U.S. Demand for Drugs
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The Zetas: Don’t mess with us. One town's tale
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In March 2011 gunmen from the Zetas cartel, one of the most violent drug trafficking organizations in the world, swept through Allende and nearby towns like a flash flood, demolishing homes and businesses and kidnapping and killing dozens, possibly hundreds, of men, women and children.
(Shortly after) But unlike most places in Mexico that have been ravaged by the drug war, what happened in Allende didn’t have its origins in Mexico. It began in the United States, when the Drug Enforcement Administration scored an unexpected coup. An agent persuaded a high-level Zetas operative to hand over the trackable cellphone identification numbers for two of the cartel’s most wanted kingpins, Miguel Ángel Treviño and his brother Omar. Then the DEA took a gamble. It shared the intelligence with a Mexican federal police unit that has long had problems with leaks — even though its members had been trained and vetted by the DEA. Almost immediately, the Treviños learned they’d been betrayed.
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Narco-Drones: A New Way to Transport Drugs
Narco-Drones: A New Way to Transport Drugs
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Maritime Interdiction in the War on Drugs in Colombia: Practices, Technologies and Te