Mexican drug war

The conflict has been described as the Mexican theater of the global war on drugs, as led by the United States federal government.

Mexico's Long War: Drugs, Crime, and the Cartels

Mexico's Long War: Drugs, Crime, and the Cartels. Violence continues to rage more than a decade after the Mexican government launched a war against drug cartels ...

Civil war in the home of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel: Fear grips Culiacan

Recent abduction and arrest of a top drug lord has set off a vicious war inside Mexico's most violent cartel.

Criminal Violence in Mexico | Global Conflict Tracker

As of May 2024, cartels controlled about one third of Mexico's territory, according to one estimate from the U.S. military. According to the U.S. Drug ...

Mexico, The “War on Drugs” - How does law protect in war? - ICRC

It has been nearly five years since President Felipe Calderón declared “war” on organized crime in Mexico. In the time since, the country has experienced a ...

Mexico's "War" on Drugs: Causes and Consequences

Mexico's "War" on Drugs: Causes and Consequences ... The organization of the illicit drug industry in Mexico and drug control policies of the Mexican government ...

More than 100 killed or missing as Sinaloa Cartel war rages in Mexico

Some 53 people have been killed and 51 others are missing in Mexico's western Sinaloa state since rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel began ...

Police in a cartel-dominated Mexican city are pulled off the streets ...

Local police in the cartel-dominated city of Culiacan, Mexico have been pulled off the streets after the army seized their guns, officials announced Monday.

A Cartel Double-Cross Turns a Mexican State Into a War Zone

War breaks out within one of the most powerful criminal mafias in the world, the Sinaloa Cartel, pitting two rival factions against each other.

Mexico Blames U.S. for Sinaloa Violence: Drug Cartel War Explained

In Mexico's northwestern state of Sinaloa, violence has spiralled out of control, with over 100 people killed or missing.

"The Impacts of the Mexican Drug War" by Samanta Flores Velazquez

The Drug War, a term officially developed to describe the excruciating battle between cartels and their presence in society, has caused chaos within ...

Justice Department Announces Charges Against Sinaloa Cartel's ...

The Sinaloa Cartel is one of the most powerful drug cartels in ... drugs through Mexico and into the United States. The Chapitos are ...

Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War

Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War by Melissa Dell. Published in volume 105, issue 6, pages 1738-79 of American Economic Review, June 2015, ...

Are Mexican drug cartels as powerful as people think?

Academic Oswaldo Zavala has pushed back at the notion that Mexico's drug cartels are all-powerful, arguing that they could not exist without ...

Notorious Mexican Cartel Leader Convicted for International Drug ...

According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, between 2007 and 2017, Oseguera-Gonzalez, 34, led an international drug ...

Timeline of the Mexican drug war - Wikipedia

2016 · January 8 – Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquín Guzmán is recaptured and 5 gunmen killed in raid codenamed Operation Black Swan in Los Mochis, Sinaloa.

In the heartland of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, the old ways ... - AP News

Cellphone chats have become death sentences in the continuing, bloody factional war inside Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel.

Crime in Pieces: The Effects of Mexico's “War on Drugs”, Explained

As noted, the kingpin strategy has exacerbated the situation. Fragmentation aggravates the violence caused by competition among groups for territory and ...

The Business - The Place Mexico's Drug Kingpins Call Home - PBS

Ernesto "Don Neto" Fonseca, Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, Rafael Caro Quintero, Guero Palma, Amado Carillo Fuentes, Ismael"El Mayo" Zambada, Joaquin "Chapo" ...

Following the poppy trail: Origins and consequences of Mexican ...

We begin by studying the historical origins of the emergence drug cartels in Mexico. The distribution of cartel activities in Mexico is, of course, the result ...