Topic: Sinaloa Cartel

Mexico Launches New Offensive Against Cartel, Ratcheting Up Drug War

Wired: Danger Room - 22 days ago
Photo: saikofish/Flickr. . Faced with the risk of losing half of Mexico to a network of marauding drug traffickers, the Mexican army is digging in...

'Chapo' aide killed in gunfight

Austin American-Statesman - 24 days ago
Members of a Mexican army special forces unit fatally shot a high-ranking aide to the country's most-wanted drug dealer in a gunfight in the ...

Morning Brief: Egypt's parliament holds opening session

Foreign Policy Passport - 25 days ago
Egypt's parliament holds opening session Top story: The new Egyptian parliament began its work on Monday, and immediately became embroiled in a...

US agents helped launder millions in drug proceeds

San Francisco Chronicle - 40 days ago
0 . The U.S. Treasury Department called Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman "the world's most powerful drug trafficker" Tuesday. The ...

U.S. authorities bust Mexico drug network in Arizona

Reuters US Online Report Domestic News - 60 days ago
TEMPE, Ariz (Reuters) - U.S. authorities have arrested 203 people and smashed a Mexican trafficking ring that funneled millions of dollars in drugs to Arizona for the powerful Sinaloa cartel, officials said on Tuesday.The multi-agency bust, led by Tempe police and ...

Corrected: Mexico drug gangs up ante with high-tech tunnels

Reuters US Online Report World News - 65 days ago
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (Reuters) - When architect Felipe de Jesus Corona built Mexico's most powerful drug lord a 200-foot-long tunnel under the U.S.-Mexican border with a hydraulic lift entrance opened by a fake water tap, the kingpin was impressed.The ...

Mexico: Gunmen Attack Ambulance, 4 Dead

Time - 72 days ago
Print Email share LinkedIn StumbleUpon Reddit Digg Del.i. cious Tweet . Gunmen attacked an ambulance in this border city Wednesday, killing the...

Cocaine air bridge sweep nets 30 arrests

San Francisco Chronicle - 169 days ago
0 . In a joint U.S.-Colombian operation against a major trafficker, police arrested 30 people and seized 21 small planes that were ferrying cocaine ...

5 youths slain at hot dog stand in northern Mexico

San Francisco Chronicle - 195 days ago
0 . Mexican authorities say five young people have been shot to death as they ordered dinner at a highway-side hot dog stand in northwestern ...

U.S. Government Gave Mexican Drug Cartel Permission to Sell Cocaine in America

Benzinga.com - 197 days ago
Posted on 08/05/11 at 3:49pm by John Thorpe . What the hell is going on in Washington?. . According to court documents, the United States...