The Capture of Hell Troop’s Leader Could Mean Trouble Brewing in Tamaulipas, Mexico
The Northeast Cartel has brought Mexico’s northern city of Nuevo Laredo to a standstill for the second time this year…
Capture of Hell Troop Leader Could Mean Trouble Brewing in Tamaulipas, Mexico
The Northeast Cartel has brought Mexico’s northern city of Nuevo Laredo to a standstill for the second time this year…
Digital Wild West: Latin America Unprepared for Crypto-Crime
A lack of regulation surrounding how cryptocurrencies are being used by organized crime has left Latin American and Caribbean countries…
US Sanctions Oversimplify Fentanyl Trafficking From Mexico
Authorities in the United States have sanctioned a Mexican criminal group for trafficking illicit fentanyl into the country, but the…
Wildlife Trafficking Grows in Mexico as Criminals Go Digital
Wildlife traffickers in Mexico are taking advantage of the large-scale, unregulated digital marketplace provided by social media platforms, placing some…
Violence Rising in Hidalgo, Mexico’s Oil Theft Center
Mexico’s ordinarily quiet state of Hidalgo is seeing a rapid rise in violence connected to an increase in oil theft,…
Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, CJNG Share Fentanyl Chemical Suppliers
Despite being locked in fierce competition over control of a wide array of criminal economies, Mexico’s two most powerful organized…
From Deception to Demand: US Fentanyl Users Now Want Fentanyl
While addicted to opioids, 35-year-old Sherman Oaks native Matt Meakin once lived in Skid Row, a permanent, decades-old, sprawling homeless…
Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias ‘El Mencho’
Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho,” is the founder and leader of the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (Cartel de Jalisco…