Mexican drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva killed

Posted by Matt in December 17th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Mexico, Arturo Beltran Leyva, Battallion, Beltran, Boss Of Bosses, Cartel, Checkpoints, Drug Cartels, Drug Lord, Drug Lords, Gun Battle, Marijuana Field, Mexican Army, Mexican Security, Nbsp, Rare Opportunity, Security Forces, Sierra Madre Mountains, Sinaloa Mexico, Urban Operation

GlobalPost joins the Mexican army on the front lines as it tracks down drug cartels.
SINALOA, Mexico — One of Mexico’s most wanted drug lords was killed Wednesday in a gun battle with Mexican security forces.
Arturo Beltran Leyva — who called himself the “boss of bosses” — headed a powerful cartel based on the Pacific Coast. The [...]

Mexico’s Narco-Armies | Foreign Policy

Posted by Matt in December 11th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Mexico, Army War College, Assertion, Central America, Drug Cartels, Dy, Foreign Policy, Governments, Gulf Cartel, Legitimate State, Los Zetas, Mexican Zetas, Narco, Private Armies, Private Army, Professor Max, Research Paper, Security Environment, Strategic Studies Institute, U S Army, Western Hemisphere

The U.S. Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute has published a disturbing research paper written by Professor Max Manwaring. Titled A “New” Dynamic in the Western Hemisphere Security Environment: The Mexican Zetas and Other Private Armies, the paper discusses how Mexico’s drug cartels and the private armies they finance are systematically displacing legitimate state authority [...]

The Fall of Mexico – The Atlantic (December 2009)

Posted by Matt in November 23rd, 2009 | no comment

Published in Mexico, 000 People, Border Towns, Carnage, Chance Remark, Collateral Damage, Coup, Drug Cartels, Drugs Mexico, Martial Law, Mexican Revolution, Mirrors, Opposition, Southern Border, War On Drugs

In the almost three years since President Felipe Calderón launched a war on drug cartels, border towns in Mexico have turned into halls of mirrors where no one knows who is on which side or what chance remark could get you murdered. Some 14,000 people have been killed in that time—the worst carnage since the [...]

10 Countries in Deep Trouble

Posted by Matt in April 23rd, 2009 | no comment

Published in Mexico, Contraction, Credit Rating Agencies, Criminal Gangs, Decline, Deep Trouble, Derivatives, Drug Cartels, Economic Growth, Economists, International Monetary Fund, Mexican Economy, Mexican Immigrants, Mexicans, Money Back, politicians, Recession, Spring Break Trips, Spring Break Trips To Mexico, Sudden Collapse, Trips To Mexico

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Thousands of would-be tourists from America and elsewhere had to cancel spring break trips to Mexico due to ongoing violence related to the drug trade. Mexico was the second country recently identified by the U.S. Joint Forces Command as possibly poised for a “rapid and sudden” collapse. Mexico’s “politicians, police, and judicial infrastructure are all [...]

The Long Arm of the [Mexican] Lawless

Posted by Matt in February 25th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Mexico, Armed Men, Array, Cartel Activity, Drug Cartels, Drug Trafficking, Extreme Violence, Fred Burton, Grenades, Guerrero State, Latin-America, Living In Mexico, Long Arm, Mexican Border, Mexican Citizens, Mexican Police, Mexican Violence, Narcotics, Pervasiveness, Police Force, Police Officials, Quiet Beach, Violence In Mexico

By Fred Burton and Scott Stewart
Last week we discussed the impact that crime, and specifically kidnapping, has been having on Mexican citizens and foreigners visiting or living in Mexico. We pointed out that there is almost no area of Mexico immune from the crime and violence. As if on cue, on the night of Feb. [...]

U.S. military report warns ’sudden collapse’ of Mexico is possible

Posted by Matt in January 13th, 2009 | 1 comment

Published in Americas, Mexico, Pakistan, Acute Problems, Bloodshed, Criminal Gangs, Disintegration, Drug Cartels, Failing States, infrastructure, Mexico, Military Report, Nationalities, Nightmares, Operating Environment, Phenomenon, politicians, Rapid Collapse, Rapid Onset, Security Threats, Sudden Collapse, Tangle, Worldwide Security, Worst Case Scenarios, Yugoslavia

Mexico is one of two countries that “bear consideration for a rapid and sudden collapse,” according to a report by the U.S. Joint Forces Command on worldwide security threats.
The Mexican possibility may seem less likely, but the government, its politicians, police and judicial infrastructure are all under sustained assault and press by criminal gangs and [...]

Mexico: Borderless drug wars

Posted by Matt in November 26th, 2008 | 1 comment

Published in Americas, Mexico, American Congress, Borderless, Boston, Broad Daylight, Chief Of Police, Corrupt Police, Crimes, Doorstep, Drug Cartels, Drug Traffickers, Drug Trafficking, Drug Violence, Drug Wars, Federal Authorities, Federal Police Officer, Foreign Affair, Gangsters, Honolulu, Innocents, Kidnappings, Mexico, Money Laundering, Seattle, Sister Point, Slayings, Soil, United States, Wage War

The drug violence that has left nearly 4,000 people dead this year in Mexico is spreading deep into the United States, leaving a trail of slayings, kidnappings and other crimes in at least 195 cities as far afield as Atlanta, Boston, Seattle and Honolulu, according to federal authorities.
The involvement of the top four Mexican drug-trafficking [...]