Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, a former drug cartel leader described as having “generated a new era of organized crime” in Mexico, has now been released from U.S. prison and may be heading back over the border, reports say. Cárdenas Guillén, the past leader of the Gulf cartel who created the Zetas — a gang of former...
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Kamala Harris' border crisis legacy: Hundreds of thousands of missing and exploited children
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector Generalfound that the Biden-Harris administration cannot confirm the location, safety or well-being of 323,000 unaccompanied migrant children released from government custody. A disturbing revelation, but the entire story is much worse. Since this report only investigated DHS, it did not look into the systemic...
'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...
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...
El Chapo's son pleads not guilty in Chicago court after arrest in Texas with cartel leader ‘El Mayo’
A son of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the infamous former boss of the Sinaloa cartel, pleaded not guilty to federal drug trafficking charges during an arraignment in Chicago federal court on Tuesday. JoaquinGuzman Lopez, 38, appeared in an orange jumpsuit when entering his plea before U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman, the Chicago Tribune reported....




