All About Mexico

CYBERCRIME / 8 FEB 2011

Organized criminals long ago diversified their portfolios, entering lucrative side businesses such as piracy. But groups like the Familia Michoacana seemed to have taken it to a new level, as…

JALISCO CARTEL / 7 FEB 2011

InSight continues to decode the narco-messages, grenade attacks, narco-blockades and other events pouring from the suddenly embattled state of Jalisco. Today, a video message (see below) from one side of…

HUMAN SMUGGLING / 7 FEB 2011

In a phenomenon that has United States border officials scratching their heads, a record wave of immigrants from India have entered the country illegally through Mexico in the past year.

KIDNAPPING / 7 FEB 2011

Kidnappings in Mexico are at a record high and are more than twice as likely to end with the death of a hostage, says a Mexican think-tank in a new…

LA FAMILIA MICHOACANA / 4 FEB 2011

From the outside looking in, we often treat Mexican criminal groups like a sports league. We assign them to teams with virtual uniforms who battle against rivals and never switch…

MEXICO / 3 FEB 2011

On Wednesday Mexican Federal Police arrested Miguel Gomez Vasquez, alias ‘El Gato,’ the alleged leader of an assassination ring for the newly-formed Independent Cartel of Acapulco, linking him to…

ARMS TRAFFICKING / 3 FEB 2011

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…

ARMS TRAFFICKING / 2 FEB 2011

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…

ARMS TRAFFICKING / 2 FEB 2011

(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…

ARMS TRAFFICKING / 2 FEB 2011

(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…

LA FAMILIA MICHOACANA / 2 FEB 2011

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…

LA FAMILIA MICHOACANA / 2 FEB 2011

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…

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