This report was published April 2009 by the national non-profit educational organization Violence Policy Center. From the report's executive summary: This report, based on indictments and criminal information filed in…
It took the death of one its own agents to get the United States Government to begin an inquiry into why federal authorities often watch while guns, purchased by what…
(With permission from the Center for Public Integrity.) Camron Scott Galloway, 21, walked into X Caliber Guns in Phoenix, Ariz., on Jan. 30, 2008, and filled out forms…
(With permission from the Investigative Reporting Workshop.) Armed with assault rifles and hand grenades, Arturo Beltran Leyva, head of one of the most ruthless drug cartels in…
A series of warning banners, or narcomantas, have appeared in the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco, on which the Milenio Cartel printed warnings to its rivals and the authorities, threatening to…
Unidentified gunmen coordinated roadblocks on major avenues throughout the Mexican city of Guadalajara, launching scattered attacks against police forces. The violence comes after the long-dormant Milenio Cartel wrote ominous warnings…
Authorities have fired a prison director for allowing an alleged female Mexican drug trafficker, known as 'The Queen of the Pacific,' to undergo plastic surgery while in jail. This is…
When war broke out between the Beltran Leyva Organization (BLO) and the Sinaloa Cartel in 2008, it was the bloody culmination of the unraveling of the Federation, the most powerful…
United States and Mexican authorities were on the heels of Arturo Beltran Leyva, alias 'El Jefe de Jefes' (The Boss of Bosses), for nearly ten months before they finally surrounded…
On both sides of the border, Mexico's cartels have small teams that, among other assignments, procure weapons from different sources. However, according to law enforcement officials, it's unlikely, unnecessary and…
In the little over four years that Felipe Calderon has been president of Mexico, the Mexican government has registered 34,162 deaths due to organized criminal violence. It has also seized…
The most quoted words in the news were those of Janet Napolitano, United States Homeland Security Secretary, who, according to the El Paso Times, said in a speech…