The Tijuana Cartel, also known as the Arellano Felix Organization, is based in one of the most strategically important Mexico border cities for trafficking drugs into the United States. Due to infighting, arrests and the deaths of many top leaders, the organization is a shell of what it was in the 1990s and early 2000s, when it was considered…
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Mexico's process of criminal fragmentation has been a slow burn. Many of the country's mightiest criminal groups have been unable…
Two death threats were made against the president of Mexico in the same week from two different criminal groups, suggesting…
A new report says that executions linked to organized crime in Mexico have skyrocketed to record levels during the first…
In "Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man," former Tijuana Cartel enforcer Martin Corona traces his rise through the ranks of the hegemonic…
A bloody cartel war raging in the state of Baja California Sur hints at the new strategies and alliances forming…
Authorities in Mexico have voiced fears the Jalisco Cartel has arrived in Baja California state, the most substantial indication yet…
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