A mother whose daughter was kidnapped and murdered by a Mexican drug cartel spent years stalking and hunting down her child’s captors in a dangerous – and ultimately fatal – mission mirroring the plot of 2008 film Taken. Miriam Elizabeth Rodríguez Martínez of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, became one of Mexico’s most fearless activists for missing … Read more
Woman and two men are left blindfolded and screaming on side of highway after having their hands hacked off by Mexican drug cartel as punishment for stealing Three people found dumped beside a highway in Mexico with their hands cut off Trio – a woman aged 22 and two men aged 23 and 25 – … Read more
Mexican authorities have captured a man wanted for his purported connection to the massacre of three Mormon mothers and their six children last year. The Attorney General’s Office announced that José Lara was arrested by security forces in Ciudad Juárez on Wednesday, on the one-year anniversary of the bloody incident. Lara is accused of being … Read more
Mexican authorities have captured a man wanted for his purported connection to the massacre of three Mormon mothers and their six children last year. The Attorney General’s Office announced that José Lara was arrested by security forces in Ciudad Juárez on Wednesday, on the one-year anniversary of the bloody incident. Lara is accused of being … Read more
The Great Train Robber and the Colombian drug lord: How Charlie Wilson’s secret pact with notorious cartel boss Pablo Escobar helped get Britain hooked on cocaine A new book explores the less well-known latter half of Charlie Wilson’s career Wilson, known as one of the Great Train Robbers, had links to Pablo Escobar Book claims … Read more
The Great Train Robber and the Colombian drug lord: How Charlie Wilson’s secret pact with notorious cartel boss Pablo Escobar helped get Britain hooked on cocaine A new book explores the less well-known latter half of Charlie Wilson’s career Wilson, known as one of the Great Train Robbers, had links to Pablo Escobar Book claims … Read more
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel has become Mexico’s fastest-rising criminal organization, with a reputation for ruthlessness and violence unlike any since the fall of the old Zetas cartel. In parts of the country it is fighting medieval-style battles, complete with fortified redoubts, to expand nationwide, from the outskirts of Mexico City, into the tourist resorts around … Read more
El Chapo’s nephew, 45, is shot and killed in his car in Sinaloa: Cartel members hunt gunmen after his body was found in a vehicle riddled with bullets Enrique Guzmán was found dead inside a car in Sinaloa, Mexico, on Wednesday Cops received a phone call alerting them 45-year-old was shot several times Romero, who … Read more
Founded in 2009, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) is a Mexican criminal organization based in Jalisco, to the east of Mexico City. The cartel is headed by Nemesio ‘El Mencho’ Oseguera Cervantes, one of Mexico’s most-wanted drug lords. The clan is currently at war with a number of other powerful drug cartels for control … Read more
Fugitive cartel leader, featured in Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico tells Mexican court he’s broke so is not a flight risk as he fights his extradition to the United States for the 1985 murder of a DEA agent Rafael Caro Quintero informed a Mexico City court that he has no money and is unemployed in his latest … Read more