JAY, Okla. — Andrew Scott Pierson’s ordeal started on a remote Oklahoma farm and ended in a cartel hot zone after Mexican officers surrounded him and marched him out of Mexico. His journey from America’s heartland to life in a volatile border town started in 2012 with his rise to prominence as a gun expert … Read more
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador lashed out Thursday at a report that U.S. agents had investigated possible ties between his aides and drug traffickers, in the latest jolt to anti-narcotics cooperation with the United States. U.S. agents were told by informants that drug groups were in contact with the president’s allies … Read more
MEXICO CITY — Four Roman Catholic bishops met with Mexican drug cartel bosses in a bid to negotiate a possible peace accord, one of the bishops said, and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Thursday he approves of such talks. The revelation by Bishop of Chilpancingo-Chilapa, José de Jesús González Hernández, in remarks at a … Read more
A group of Mexican farmers have been allowed to walk free despite killing 10 members of a cartel with sickles and shotguns in a “football field massacre”. The villagers engaged in a showdown with the gangsters earlier this month after they refused to pay them protection money. Armed with sickles, machetes and shotguns, the villagers … Read more
LONDON — Angola announced Thursday that it’s leaving the OPEC oil producers cartel, coming after it battled with the group over lower production quotas this year. Diamantino de Azevedo, the African nation’s oil minister, said Angola “does not gain anything by remaining in the organization,” according to state news agency Angop. The country joined OPEC … Read more
MEXICO CITY — Banners appeared Monday in northern Mexico purportedly signed by a faction of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel claiming that the gang has sworn off the sale and production of the synthetic opioid fentanyl. But experts quickly cast doubt on the veracity of the claim, saying that fentanyl — which has caused tens of thousands … Read more
The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned nine affiliates of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, as well as the current leader of Colombia’s powerful Clan del Golfo criminal enterprise ByThe Associated Press September 26, 2023, 11:09 AM MEXICO CITY — The U.S. Treasury has announced sanctions against nine affiliates of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug trafficking cartel, as well as the … Read more
MEXICO CITY — A ugly video circulated Wednesday on social media might have recorded the final moments of 5 kidnapped younger males, and has transported Mexico again to the darkest days of drug cartel brutality within the 2000s. Prosecutors within the western state of Jalisco say they’re investigating the video, and kinfolk of the lacking … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment MEXICO CITY — Hundreds of protesters, angered by the jailing of two alleged drug cartel members, besieged a state capital in southern Mexico, battling police and nationwide guard troops, taking authorities staff hostage, and crashing an armored automobile by the gates of the legislature. The violence in Chilpancingo, the capital of … Read more
APATZINGAN, Mexico — The drug cartel violence that citizen self-defense chief Hipolito Mora gave his life preventing flared anew on Sunday, simply sooner or later after he was buried, as shootings and highway blockades hit the town of Apatzingan, a regional hub in Mexico’s scorching lands. Roads out and in of Apatzingan have been blocked … Read more