Friday, May 17th, 2013
By Scott Stewart, Stratfor Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s approach to combating Mexican drug cartels has been a much-discussed topic since well before he was elected. Indeed, in June 2011 — more than a year before the July 2012 Mexican presidential election — I wrote an analysis discussing rumors that, if elected, Peña Nieto was going
Friday, April 12th, 2013
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco The violence in Mexico, seen from the U.S. perspective, has an “over there, to ‘those people’” quality that’s hard to break down. This short video, produced by the people at visual.ly, does a...
Wednesday, April 10th, 2013
By Melissa del Bosque, Texas Observer This story was produced in partnership with the Guardian, where a version of this story also appears. In 2010, the birth year of the popular and controversial website Blog del Narco, Mexico’s tumultuous drug...
Thursday, February 21st, 2013
By Louis Nevaer, New America Media MADRID – The economic crisis in Spain, with a crippling jobless rate at 26 percent and labor strikes growing violent, has unleashed a brutal turf war between rival Latin American drug cartels....
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
By Melissa del Bosque, Texas Observer Last year, nearly every region along the U.S.-Mexico border saw a decline in migrant apprehensions—except the Rio Grande Valley. Apprehensions there increased 70 percent, according to a recent report by the Washington Office on...
Monday, November 26th, 2012
By Melissa del Bosque, Texas Observer Mexico’s drug war is enriching Texas border communities in more ways than one. Not only have wealthy Mexican business owners invested in the region, local law enforcement is benefiting from millions...
Friday, May 11th, 2012
By Susana Hayward Soler NewsTaco In Mexico, the presidential election of July 1 heats up with front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in heavy campaign mode. The former governor of the state of Mexico,...
Friday, April 6th, 2012
by Paul Adams For the first time as his tenure as a pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI passed through Mexico last weekend during his Latin American trip. Though many of its indigenous people still felt a closer bond...
Monday, December 12th, 2011
By Cindy Casares Operation Fast and Furious—the Arizona-based federal gun-tracking program that led to the death of a U.S. agent at the hands of Mexican criminals—could be underway in Texas, too, and may have led to the...
Monday, November 14th, 2011
By Susana Hayward THE FIRST TIME HE pulled the trigger, he said he couldn’t even think. He was just following an order that came in code while driving his police car with “a package,” a man he’d kidnapped...
Friday, April 8th, 2011
The Guardian in the United Kingdom wrote an extensive piece uncovering that Wachovia Bank, now a part of Wells Fargo, helped drug cartels in Mexico launder beaucoup bucks in order to fund their operations and do things...
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
New York Rep. Peter King – R was sent a bloody pig’s foot with a note containing anti-Semitic sayings yesterday. He’s the same guy who went on a witch hunt for Muslims last month. At least 6 people...
Monday, February 14th, 2011
Narco News has been reporting on the flow of U.S. military fire power into Mexico and into the hands of the drug cartels. Recently they posted a story that gleans from WikiLeaks cables information that sheds more...
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
All kinds of people in the U.S. are illegally smuggling guns into Mexico — it’s illegal for civilians to have firearms in Mexico — essentially arming the cartels that are slaughtering Mexicans by the thousands every year....
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