According to ABC News Organized crime in Mexico is tightening its grip on the vape market, a $1.5 billion industry When a drug cartel came calling at a store selling vapes in northern Mexico, the owners knew they were powerless. The cartel abducted two employees, blindfolded them and demanded to speak with their bosses. The cartel […]
“The police officer who murdered the Ayotzinapa student has escaped”: AMLO
During his daily morning press conference, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed that the police officer allegedly responsible for the murder of Rothan Gómez, the Ayotzinapa Teacher’s College student, has escaped. The president stated that a search is underway for the subject and accused that his escape is “part of the great decomposition that […]
Political violence in Zacatecas claimed the life of Jorge Monreal this Saturday, February 10th
In Zacatecas, a group of armed men kill the nephew of the governor David Monreal Ávila. The violence against politicians has not stopped and yesterday a relative of the Monreal Ávila family in Zacatecas and a Morena candidate for federal representative for District 16 of Ecatepec and Tlalnepantla, in the State of Mexico, were killed. […]
A total of 178,832 intentional homicides have been officially registered in Mexico so far this six-year term
So far in the Administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, prosecutors have registered 178,832 intentional homicides in Mexico The report ‘MX: The War in Numbers’, by T-ResearchMX , details that, according to the registry of intentional homicides of the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection, from December 1, 2018 to February 10, 2024 , time Under the Administration of […]
Taxco, Guerrero once the “Silver Capital”, now shuttered by gang killings and threats
The bullet-ridden bodies of two detectives were found on the outskirts of Taxco, a colonial town in central Mexico that draws throngs of tourists to its silver workshops, authorities said on Wednesday, January 24. Prosecutors in the violence-plagued state of Guerrero said the two detectives worked for the state prosecutor’s office and had been reported […]
Ever heard of Mexico’s “Gringo Hunters”?
A group of bold men known as Mexico’s ‘Gringo Hunters’ track down, capture and deliver foreign fugitives to the U.S. law enforcement agencies. It’s an old Hollywood story: some criminal suspects believe they can outrun the law, and escape their charges, by fleeing to Mexico. But when fugitives who commit a crime in the United […]