From Siwissinfo.ch on July 29, 2013- The capture of the Zetas leader, Miguel Angel Trevino also known as Z-40, could lead to a Sinaloan attempt to consolidate border control. Leader of the Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin Guzman, who has been at large since his prison escape in 2001, could take advantage of the situation and seek to take Nuevo Laredo from the Zetas. Analysts see two possibilities coming from this. First, the Sinaloa and Zetas cartels could restart the violence that was seen during the Calderon administration leading to more civilian deaths and atrocities. However, others have suggested that if the Sinaloa cartel was able to gain control of Nuevo Laredo there could be more peace in Mexico. A hegemonic Sinaloa cartel would not have to use as much violence to control its drug routes and the Sinaloa cartel already has a better reputation for being less violent towards civilians than the Zetas. Read Article
From El Mundo on July 16, 2013- On Monday, Mexico’s navy captured the leader of the Zetas drug cartel, Miguel Angel Trevino Morales (Z-40), in the U.S.-Mexico border city of Nuevo Laredo. Trevino was captured alongside three other Zetas members, $2 million, rifles, and 500 bullets. Trevino was responsible for some of the worst atrocities […]
Lainformacion.com reported on May 22, 2013 that Guatemalan security forces detained Guatemalan citizen, Cristopher Calderón Pinto, aka. “El Palanca.” According to the National Civil Police (PNC), Calderón Pinto has ties to a Zetas cell that is active in southern and central Guatemala, and is connected to a dozen crimes related to drug trafficking. During the […]
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Colombia seized 826 kilograms 3000 cocaine that allegedly belonged to the criminal gang Los Urabeños and it would be sent to the cartel Los Zetas in Veracruz Bogotá. – The National Police of Colombia seized late on a load of 826 kilograms 3000 cocaine allegedly belonged to the criminal gang Los Urabeños and it would […]
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A new and insidious threat is looming for dozens of U.S. states with what sources say is the new merger of the extremely violent and dangerous MS-13 gang with the Mexican Los Zetas drug cartel, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. Read Article
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Those arrested include five active policemen, five children and a former Marine, is accused of 16 kidnappings, 12 murders and extortion. Ministerial Police Detectives arrested 24 alleged members of Los Zetas, led by a woman known by authorities as “The Commander Red”, who allegedly were involved in kidnapping, murder and extortion in rural upstate. The […]
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Yesterday the Secretary of the Navy of Mexico, Naval personnel captured two suspected logistics operators of “Los Zetas”, in the state of Coahuila. The incident occurred during a patrol in the Latin American colony, when marine elements observed two people who stepped off a vehicle carrying rifles and then enter into a house, so we […]
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Yesterday the Secretary of the Navy of Mexico, Naval personnel captured two suspected logistics operators of “Los Zetas”, in the state of Coahuila. The incident occurred during a patrol in the Latin American colony, when marine elements observed two people who stepped off a vehicle carrying rifles and then enter into a house, so we […]
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The increasing clashes between gunmen of the Zetas, the Gulf Cartel (CDG) and Los Chapos for control of the Valles region of Jalisco have caused casualties of the police forces of Magdalena and San Martin Hidalgo, which highlights the precarious municipal government just took over Oct. 1. The coordinator of the Rural Police of Jalisco, […]
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Daniel John Nicholas was arrested yesterday Sinlaj community, the municipality of Santa Cruz Barillas, in the northwestern department of Huehuetenango, which is located 100 meters from the border with Mexico, according to the attorney general, Claudia Paz. The Guatemalan, known by the alias “El Mono” is an alleged leader of Los Zetas operating in Sinlaj […]
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As narcocuotas responsible for the collection of dozens of vendors, three members of the criminal group “Los Zetas” including Julio Cesar Garcia Mateo (a) “Quesadilla”, were arrested by elements of the tourist police in the hotel zone when they were in a vehicle parked at kilometer 14 of Boulevard Kukulcan. “The Quesadilla” has been pointed […]
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The United States sanctioned two women from Guatemala who laundered money for a drug trafficking organization associated with the Mexican Los Zetas cartel. The women were identified as Cristina Stetanel Castellanos Chacón and María Corina Saenz Lehnhoff, alias María Corina Del Pinal. According to Publimetro, the person running the organization was Marlory Dadiana Chacón Rossell. […]
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Officials arrested four alleged Los Zetas members in Puebla, Mexico and seized drugs, money, firearms, and vehicles. Among those arrested was William de Jesús Torres Solórzano, alias “el W” and “el Come Gusanos.” He is known to have transferred drugs and money between Mexico and Guatemala, Sin Embargo reports. During the operation, cocaine and 830,000 […]
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Alexánder Montoya Úsuga, believed to be the second-in-command of the Los Urabeños gang, was arrested on July 17, 2012 in Honduras. He was wanted for flying on an aircraft previously stolen from the El Dorado airport in Colombia, UPI Español reports. He is also believed to have been responsible for ordering and renting airplanes used […]
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Elements of the Mexican Army shot and killed four criminals in Ciudad Victoria, including a central member the Los Zetas cartel Carlos Alberto Fernández Hernández, alias “Doble K.” According to Terra Noticias, Army officials had been attacked, leading them to open fire against the offenders. Fernández Hernández is known to have assisted in organizing vehicles […]
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Police injured three suspected members of the drug trafficking organization Los Zetas who were found during an operation that occurred in Constanza, La Vega, the Dominican Republic. The injured suspects were identified as Kelvin Lebrón Furcal (22); Ronny Suero (23); and Ezequiel Tejeda Rosado (24). Various weapons, including a knife, were found on the suspects. […]
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Guerradelnarco.com.mx reported the group “Anonymous” in Mexico, the organization of social causes flying hackers to attack Web sites of all kinds, was marked after the criminal group known as “Los Zetas” raised last year, one of its members in the state of Veracruz, and confesses that he is afraid. One member stated “‘Los Zetas’ are […]
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The race was one of many victories for the Treviño brothers, who managed to establish a prominent horse breeding operation in the United States, Tremor Enterprises, that allowed them to launder millions of dollars in drug money, according to current and former federal law enforcement officials. The operation amounted to a foothold in the United […]
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The southern coast of Guatemala, as well as the capital city, is seeing heightened drug activity due to the mobilization of the Mexican drug trafficking organization Los Zetas. The exhaustion of resources and power in the Petén, Izabal, Zacapa and Huehuetenango areas, which were locations of serious conflicts over the last five years, is blamed […]
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The anti-narcotics department in Ecuador has released statistics that show an increase in drug trafficking in the country. U.S. officials from the Department of State agree, Noticias Montreal reports. They claim many exterior criminal organizations are operating in Ecuador, such as Los Zetas and the Sinaloa cartels from Mexico, Russian and Chinese groups, and Colombian […]
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The United Nations (UN) announced to the press on May 29, 2012 that the Los Zetas cartel in Mexico uses blatant violence not only to control drug routes, but also to control entire territories. According to the UN, this criminal organization uses a different, more aggressive form of violence because it hopes to operate as […]
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On May 26th, sixteen men and three women, members of criminal group “Zetas”, were detained by elements of the State Investigation Agency in Santa Catarina, Nuevo Leon. The accused were known to be watch keepers and drug distributors working for the Zetas group. Read Article
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A suspected leader of the Zetas hit men in the state was arrested by the Secretary of the Navy of Mexico (Semar), who is credited with masterminding the kidnapping and material and killed at least four elements of this dependence. Jose Luis Vergara Ibarra, director of Social Communication Semar, reported that it is Jesus Hernandez […]
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Mexico: The Zetas, respond to the Message left by El Chapo. On the Morning of March 28th in Sinaloa, the Cartel members of Los Zetas answered to the threat messages left by El Chapo in Tamaulipas. The answer message by the Zetas was accompanied by the dismembered bodies of five male individuals. This message accused […]
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Mexico: 2 USA soldiers were accused facilitating their services to a Mexican Cartel Sargent Samuel walker and former lieutenant Kevin Corley were detained by undercover officers when they attempted to be part of a Mexican organized crime cartel named the Zetas. Their plan was to charge the cartel members 50 thousand dollars for killing a […]
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The Mexican army announced the capture of the alleged offender is identified as “Fabiruchis,” chief of the criminal organization Los Zetas in Nuevo Laredo, U.S. border city. In a statement, the Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA) reported today that the arrested belong to that group since 2006 criminal and has been responsible for operations in […]
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The brawl in the prison was planned and had help from the prison authorities The director, deputy director and chief of security have been forced to resign The fighting left more than 40 dead. The prison of hell Apodaca was a road map. No accident, chaos emerged spontaneously. A little over 24 hours after the […]
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Treviño Morales, alias “Z-40,” the leader of Los Zetas has posted messages in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas denying any connection between the group and terrorist activity. According to Morales, the group does not wish to conflict with either the U.S. or Mexican government per eldiariodecoahuila.com.mx. He posted these in response to various messages against the Mexican […]
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The alleged leader of Los Zetas cartel in the state of Veracruz and one of the “37 most dangerous criminals” from Mexico was arrested today in the city of Córdoba, reported the Ministry of the Navy (Semar). Lettuce Raul Lucio Hernandez, aka “Lucky”, was captured in a ground operation in Cordoba, in the eastern state […]
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Mexican authorities found 167 antennas, radios 1446 and 1,306 cell phones in a network covering four states dominated by Los Zetas. The equipment was located and seized in the states of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi and Tamaulipas, and several “members of criminal groups,” those who did not specify details, were arrested. The Department […]
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Elements of the Army dismantled a sophisticated communication system of the criminal group Los Zetas, worth around $ 350,000 and arrested four people who were in charge of its operation, according to the National Defense Secretariat (SEDENA).The communication network was in a building of the colony Residencial La Hacienda in Torreon, Coahuila, and was assured […]
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Guatemalan President-elect Otto Perez Molina told Mexican newspaper El Universal on Nov. 9 that he plans to engage drug cartels in a “full frontal assault” when he takes office in 2012. The former general said he will use Guatemala’s elite military forces, known as Los Kaibiles, to take on the drug cartels in a strategy […]
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As we warned yesterday the U.S. agency Stratfor and El Universal, the hacker group Anonymous activists, launched after a second warning against the drug cartels that restrict freedom of expression, this time specifically against “The Zetas “, this day was allegedly hacked the site of the former attorney of Tabasco, Gustavo Rosario Torres: www.gustavorosario.com which […]
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The murders are increasingly chilling. They seek to intimidate and cause a greater impact. The concern is that citizenship is becoming insensitive to the cruelty of the narcos. The brutal murders in public that began 5 years ago have worsened as cartels try to match what the other in their quest to intimidate rivals, authorities […]
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In the last four years and nine months nearly 537 women have disappeared between 8 and 30 years of age in the State of Mexico, according to nongovernmental organizations and relatives of them members of organized crime deprive them of their liberty for sexual exploitation or for use in selling drugs. “‘The Zetas’ are taking […]
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22 suspected criminals were killed in clashes with armed forces in a joint operation of Army and Air Force 15 days in four northern states in which 14 hostages were released, according to the National Defense Secretariat. From 10 to 24 September the Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA) launched the second phase of “Operation Scorpion”, […]
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A former municipal police Veronica Moreno played him one time, more complicated and violent, most volatile and transient, more uncertain, as to try to consolidate at the top of a drug cartel, his aggressive character, with traits of leadership and command about the members of Los Zetas cells operating in San Nicolas de los Garza, […]
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Until the 1980s, Mexico enjoyed relative freedom from violence. Ruthless drug cartels existed, but they usually abided by informal rules of conduct hammered out between several capos and representatives of the dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled the country until the 1990s. Relying on bribes, the desperados pursued their illicit activities with the connivance […]
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Mexico. Mejicanas authorities yesterday analyzing the video from a camera that captured the moment in which the bodies of 35 people killed were left on the street in a city of Veracruz. In turn, followed the identification of victims, including a policeman and two children. The prosecutor Reynaldo Escobar said that the images of the […]
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Los Zetas, with traffic of drugs, kidnapping and extortion of money as casinos and betting sites, have occupied at least one third of the territory of Nuevo Leon, according to the operational files of the Federal Police. The corporation has verified the active presence of the arm in 17 of the 51 municipalities that make […]
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Locate and drug trade arsenal located in Zacapa. An arsenal variety of drugs and ammunition seized by the authorities on Monday during a raid that took place in a car wash located on the 3rd. Street in Zone 1 of Zacapa, in the Neighbourhood Centre. Authorities believe the arsenal belonged to the ZetasRead Article Spanish
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•The group Los Mata-Zetas has released a video in which they accuse certain officials of being supporters of the Mexican Cartel, Los Zetas. •As reported by blogdelnarco.com, Los Mata-Zetas, a response to the Los Zetas cartel, accused Fidel Herrera Beltrán, former governor of Veracruz, Mexico and alias Z1, of allowing the cartel to establish itself […]
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After receiving a distress call, Honduran police officers left to Mount de Los Negros where they encountered a mysterious vehicle and were later ambushed by a heavily armed group of Zetas informed La Prensa. The staged emergency has no leads on the supposed criminals, but addresses the increase of organized crime and drug manufacturing near […]
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“Los Zetas”, a Mexican criminal group, allied with the Salvadorian coyote Jesus Ovidio Guardado to recruit women for prostitution informed El Mundo.com.sv. The coyote tricked the victims by promising safe passage to the United States when the actual plan was to sell the women to Enrique Jaramillo Aguilar, leader of one of the Zeta cells […]
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Recently seized weapons were intended to supply drug cartels, paramilitary groups, and Zeta groups in the area of Olancho, Honduras and most weapons are said to be trafficked from Florida through the Russian mafia reported La Tribuna. The weapons are also said to travel hidden aboard trucks or other vehicles, in exchange, mafias obtain large […]
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A group of 120 from Central America – 41 Guatemalans, 40 Hondurans and 43 Salvadorans – were taking a train from Oaxaca to Veracruz on June 24 when they were kidnapped, Prensa Libre reports. Early investigations indicate that the train was intercepted by at least 12 armed men belonging to the drug cartel Los Zetas. […]
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The Honduran Minister of External Affairs confirmed the removal of the Honduran Consul Patricia Villamil in Chiapas, Mexico, due to concerns for Villamil’s personal safety after she received death threats by the terrorist group Los Zetas. According to El Heraldo newspaper, sources have revealed that the Mexican government is prepared to designate the consul as […]
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On Thursday June 16, 22-year-old Édgar Huerta Montiel, known as “El Wache”, was captured by Mexico’s Federal Police in Fresnillo, Zacatecas. El Wache is said to be responsible for organizing the massacre of at least 10 migrants in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, as well as abducting six buses and torturing their passengers. El Wache has worked […]
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El Universal reports: • Three Colombians and seven Costa Ricans were arrested Thursday in Costa Rica; they are believed to be part of a powerful international organization involved in drug trafficking and money laundering • 15 raids were conducted nationwide to act on an Interpol arrest warrant for Colombian Leudo Nieves, wanted by the U.S. […]
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According to Periodicodigital.com.mx an attack on the Global Express Hotel, located on the Mexico Puebla highway, allegedly was the work of the Zetas. The hotel is located near FINSA Park. However, a police investigation has produced important clues to what happened. The two employees that were held hostage for 50,000 pesos are part of the […]
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U.S. security authorities and businesses are warning travelers to avoid the Mexican states of Sonora, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí, Jalisco and Nayarit. Many online sources, including Samuel Logan’s “Traveler Safety in Mexico” map, outline the most high-risk locations for U.S. tourists. This map indicates that half of the territory of Zacatecas is unsafe due to […]
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According to msemanal.com, last month’s massacre of 28 Guatemalan farm workers by the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas represents a first act of extreme violence aimed explicitly at civilians since the end of Guatemala’s Civil War. However, it is not the first instance of violence attributed to Los Zetas in El Petén, the department of […]
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•Elespectador.com reports that the Policía Nacional Civil found 166 kilos of cocaine in a container from Colombia in a warehouse of the Santo Tomás de Castilla port in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala. •There were no arrests. •Yesterday, the police seized $4.29 million USD of cocaine in the El Progreso department during which two presumed members of […]
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Police found the tank during a raid on a remote ranch in Jalisco, western Mexico. The armour plated vehicle, dubbed “Monster Zeta” has a revolving gun turret and welded metal sheeting designed to withstand explosions. Read Article
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The main suspect in the drug-cartel massacre of 27 farmworkers and relatives in Guatemala’s Peten province was arraigned Friday on charges including conspiracy to murder and kidnapping. Suspect Hugo Gomez Vasquez has been identified as a local leader of the Mexico-based Zetas drug cartel and a former member of the elite Guatemalan military unit known […]
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Manuel Baldizón, leader of a minority opposition party, reported Thursday that their parents have received death threats from the Mexican cartel Los Zetas because they asked to punish those responsible for the killing of 27 people at a farm in northern department of Petén. Read Article
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According to researchers at the PNC, some 200 heavily armed members of a cell of Los Zetas, identified as “Z 200”, arrived in Los Cocos Saturday night and attacked the victims, mostly peasants that farm workers. Read Article
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The Secretary of Public Security, Damián Canales confirmed the arrest of suspected members of criminal group “Los Zetas”, operating in the municipalities of Tula Tulancingo and at least one of the insured is part of the important structure of this organization in the state, stressed the police chief. Read Article
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Another heavy blow to a group effective criminal law enforcement, intelligence work it through and derived from another arrest was achieved ensuring three criminals operating in the state, who include a woman, girlfriend “Commandant Molo” Manager Tulancingo Square Los Zetas. Read Article
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Mexican authorities said Thursday they had arrested the local leader of the dreaded Zetas drug cartel along with seven other suspects in the Caribbean beach resort of Cancun. Read Article
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Monday warned Mexico’s drug cartels that any attempt to bring their violent tactics across the border would produce a powerful reaction. Read Article
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Guatemala extended military operations on Tuesday to sweep out Mexican drug cartels from a lawless northern state where well-armed traffickers often outgun government troops. Hundreds of troops poured into the remote state of Alta Verapaz last month to attack traffickers, a surprise move by President Alvaro Colom to remobilize the army known for massacring civilians […]
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Venezuelan police have captured a drug suspect alleged to belong to Mexico’s Zetas drug gang. The Interior Ministry said in a statement Friday that 56-year-old Gloria Rojas Valencia was detained in Caracas this week. Read Article
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Narco gangs have opened a new front in South America’s expanding drug war by seizing control of parts of northern Guatemala, prompting the government to suspend civil liberties and declare a state of siege in the area. Hundreds of soldiers have reinforced police units in an offensive against a Mexican cartel known as the Zetas […]
Men claiming to belong to the Zetas drug gang forced radio stations to broadcast a threat of war in a northern Guatemalan province where the government declared a state of siege last week, authorities said Tuesday. The men arrived at three radio stations in the northern city of Cobán and threatened to burn the premises […]
A leaked U.S. diplomatic cable published Saturday depicts the leader of Mexico’s Army “lamenting” its lengthy role in the anti-drug offensive, but expecting it to last between seven and 10 more years. The cable says Defense Secretary Gen. Guillermo Galván mistrusts other Mexican law enforcement agencies and prefers to work separately, because corrupt officials had […]
Guatemala captured nearly two dozen suspected drug traffickers, automatic weapons and small planes in a country-wide sweep to crack down on Mexican cartels smuggling drugs through Central America. The arrests, four on Saturday and 18 over the past week, are the biggest blow yet to the Zetas drug gang, now operating in around 75 percent […]
The Guatemalan government today declared a state of emergency in the northern department of Alta Verapaz because of the control exercised there by drug traffickers, according to press reports. The digital edition of Prensa Libre attributes confirmation of that measure to the secretary of communications of the presidency, Ronaldo Robles, and the Minister of Home […]
The Washington Post revealed Monday the names of the top 12 traders of weapons seized by police in actions against organized crime in Mexico in the last two years. After a yearlong investigation, the newspaper reported that eight of the main suppliers of arms to Mexico are in Texas, three in Arizona and one in […]
The number of people arrested in connection with the storming last week of a prison in western Guatemala to free the main suspect in the kidnap-murder of a pro soccer player has risen to 16, the National Civilian Police, or PNC, said. Another Guatemalan suspected of belonging to Mexico’s Los Zetas drug cartel was arrested […]