drug trafficking

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said his government will seek to strengthen cooperation with the United States to control the flow of “arms and dollars” during meetings this week with U.S. Attorney General William Barr

In the last three years, Mexican drug cartels have expanded their dominion in the cocaine business while they also emerge as a potential threat in the meth market in the European Union

Due to their role in drug and human trafficking, the Trump administration will designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorists, allowing the U.S. to adopt tougher measures against them

Since the U.S. is one of the biggest markets for drug traffickers, cartels are at war to control the trade

The rise of violence in Ciudad Juárez started almost simultaneously with the LeBarón family massacre in the limits of Chihuahua and Sonora, so it has not received so much attention in media outlets

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Activist Julián LeBarón accused authorities of being colluded with organized crime by asserting that the gunmen responsible for the massacre against members of his community round La Morita with no fear

In recent years, there has been wide interest from the public in narcoculture. Mexican drug cartels have become increasingly powerful, often living a life full of luxury, vice, and excess usually portrayed in popular series and films

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Mexican drug cartels are making “mass quantities” of fake prescription pills containing the synthetic opioid fentanyl with the intention of selling them to users throughout North America