Juárez Cartel
The Juárez Cartel’s rivalry the Sinaloa Cartel helped turn Juarez into one of the most violent cities on Earth.
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ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME
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8 SEP 2021
Mexico remains the main international provider of marijuana for the United States, but this has greatly diminished since 2013, forcing…
BELTRAN LEYVA ORG
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12 AUG 2021
Mexico's process of criminal fragmentation has been a slow burn. Many of the country's mightiest criminal groups have been unable…
COCAINE
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21 JUN 2021
Misconceptions surrounding Mexico's drug trade have long been replicated in popular culture and public discourses.
JUAREZ CARTEL
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15 NOV 2019
Two lesser-known criminal groups have grabbed headlines in recent weeks for their role in the brazen ambush and murder of…
AYOTZINAPA
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6 NOV 2019
The brazen murder of several children and women from a prominent American Mormon family by cartel gunmen in northern Mexico…
EL MAYO
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5 MAR 2019
At the start of the fourth month of Mexico’s new government -- the so-called “Fourth Transformation” -- two feared capos…
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