How Criminal Groups Help Expand Mexico’s Multibillion-Dollar Avocado Industry
The boom of Mexico’s avocado market has been accompanied by heightened criminal activity in avocado-growing regions, particularly the state of…
Criminal Violence Paralyzes Mexico’s Southern State of Guerrero
Ongoing battles between several crime groups over lucrative criminal economies like extortion have sparked a new wave of violence in…
Mexico Groups Set to Capitalize on Acapulco Hurricane Destruction
The devastation brought by Hurricane Otis to Mexico’s resort town of Acapulco has opened the door for criminal groups to…
Mexico Drone Attacks Spike After CJNG, Familia Michoacana Alliance
An increase in drone strikes in parts of Mexico’s southwestern state of Guerrero has seen hundreds of residents driven from…
Will Designating Mexican Crime Groups as Terrorists Help Fight Them?
US officials are considering designating Mexican drug trafficking organizations as terrorist groups, but labeling criminals as terrorists would mischaracterize the…
‘Mula’: The Bridge Between MS13 and Mexican Mafia in Tijuana, Mexico
One afternoon in 1993, Nelson Alexander Flores Pacheco, better known as “Mula” within the MS13, took his knife, stabbed a…
How a Priest in Mexico Resists the CJNG’s Incursions
It was around midday when the armed gunmen entered the chapel. Father Rafael Bonilla López** was administering mass. In his…
3 Takeaways From the Return of the Familia Michoacana
The Familia Michoacana, a formerly powerful Mexican drug trafficking cartel whose influence waned drastically some five years ago, appears to…