Border agents at the U.S.-Mexico border intercepted a “seedy situation” when they encountered over $5 million in methamphetamine disguised in inflatable watermelons in the continued saga of Mexican cartels attempting to smuggle illicit drugs through the border. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents grew suspicious of a 29-year-old man who was driving a commercial...
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'Cowboy Cartel': Mexican drug lords' American racehorse ring hid deadly crime enterprise
It’s not every day you hear the words horse and deadly drug cartel in the samesentence. A new Apple TV+ docuseries, “Cowboy Cartel,” examines Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas and its takedown led by rookie FBI agent Scott Lawson. The Zetas were once known as one of the deadliest drug cartels in Mexico, led by...
Dinosaur-killing asteroid likely came from beyond Jupiter, study finds
Scientists investigating the asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs after slamming into the Earth 66 million years ago have released a new study suggesting that it formed “beyond the orbit of Jupiter.” The findings published in Science on Thursday say that the researchers made their determination after examining the geological remains of the impact in modern...
How America's only Olympic breakdancing medal was won by Florida man Victor Montalvo
In the early ’90s, Victor Montalvo’s parents decided to leave Mexico and trekked across the Chihuahuan Desert for a better life. “They basically had to go through the desert and then get into some random dude’s car in Texas. And from there, they drove down to Florida,” Montalvo told Fox News Digital about his parents’...
Mexican prosecutors weigh treason charges after drug lord ‘El Mayo’ Zambada’s arrest in US
Mexican authorities are considering bringing charges against those who handed over the country’s most-wanted drug lord and co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia, to the U.S. last month. On July 25, U.S. officials announced that Zambada Garcia was taken into custody in El Paso, Texas, alongside Joaquín Guzmán López, the son...
Drug cartels using bomb-dropping drones have killed Mexican army soldiers: report
The Mexican army has confirmed that drug cartel-operated bomb-dropping drones have killed soldiers in the western state of Michoacan. Defense Secretary Gen. Luis Cresencio Sandoval did not provide exact figures on the number of casualties suffered in the attacks, according to the Associated Press. Sandoval stated on Friday that attacks targeted patrol units and included...
Gunmen on jet skis kill 12-year-old boy on Cancun beach while firing at rival drug dealer: Mexican officials
A 12-year-old boy was shot and killed in the resort town of Cancun, Mexico, after gunmen riding jet skis opened fire at a rival drug dealer on a beach Sunday, Mexican authorities said. The boy, a local resident, had been lying on a lounge chair on the beach with his family when he was apparently...
Sinaloa Cartel co-founder ‘El Mayo’ taken into US custody
The Mexican drug kingpin Ismael Zambada Garcia, also known as “El Mayo,” who co-founded the notorious Sinaloa drug cartel was taken into custody in El Paso on Thursday, according to the Department of Justice. Also taken into custody was Juaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of the cartel’s other co-founder, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. “The Justice...
Death toll reaches 6 in Mexican tequila distillery blast
Rescue teams on Wednesday found another body at a tequila distillery in Mexico a day after an explosion and fire, bringing the death toll to six. Two workers were injured. The factory belongs to the Jose Cuervo company, one of Mexico’s most famous tequila brands. POSEIDON VS. CHAAC: MEXICO ‘CANCELS’ STATUE OF GREEK GOD AFTER...
Poseidon vs. Chaac: Mexico 'cancels' statue of Greek god after complaint from Maya Indigenous groups
The gods must be angry — or just laughing at the hubris of humanity. Authorities in Mexico have slapped a “closure” order on a 10-foot-tall aquatic statue of the Greek god of the sea Poseidon that was erected in May in the Gulf of Mexico just off the town of Progreso, Yucatan. Mexico’s environmental protection...









