Ruthless cartel's sibling leaders — known as "Z-40" and "Z-42" — charged in U.S., accused of murders and torture
Brothers Miguel and Omar Trevino Morales — aliases "Z-40" and "Z-42" — led one of Mexico's most powerful and feared organized ...
The explosive downfall of Scotland’s biggest drug cartel with links to South American narcos steeped in murder & mayhem
THE decade-long fight to dismantle Scotland’s biggest drugs cartel has swept up nearly 50 hoods linked to the notorious Gillespie organised crime gang. Police Scotland’s ...
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The Missing McLaren F1: El Chapo’s Lost Supercar and the Mystery That Won’t Die
Among them was one of the most controversial McLaren F1s ever built—chassis #39—a car that disappeared after his lieutenant ...
Mexican cartel mystery: Abandoned shoes, cryptic writings, charred bones
Authorities are trying to figure out how many were killed at a Jalisco ranch that apparently was used as a cartel training ...
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LatAm in Focus: Drugs, Guns, and Dollars—Unpacking the Cartels' FTO Designation
FTI’s Pablo Zárate and ITAM’s Cecilia Farfán-Méndez explain what the U.S. security policy shift means for bilateral business ...
Mongabay News3d
Brazil’s crackdown on illegal mining in Munduruku Indigenous land sees success, but fears remain
This is part one of a series on the operation to evict illegal gold miners from the Munduruku Indigenous Territory. Part two, ...
Mongabay News3d
Brazil’s Lava Jato investigation: the biggest corruption scandal of the last decade
The largest and most infamous corruption scandal of the last decade began with a criminal investigation into the operations ...
Latin America grapples with drone arms race, but cartels and gangs are the leading stakeholders
Latin America’s drone arms race is growing, with governments struggling to match criminals using UAVs for smuggling, spying ...
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Mexico extradites drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, 28 other cartel members to US
MEXICO CITY — Mexico on Thursday began to hand over to U.S. authorities major figures in the country's criminal underworld, ...
Supreme Court poised to block Mexico from suing American gunmakers over cartel violence
As President Donald Trump pressures Mexico to address the flow of migrants and drugs heading north into the United States, ...
Luxembourg Times11d
Drug cartels have long since put Luxembourg on the map
The fourth major seizure of cocaine in the Grand Duchy suggests that South American drug cartels have long since put ...
The Straits Times15d
Mexico's Caro Quintero pleads not guilty to US drug charges
NEW YORK - Alleged drug cartel boss Rafael Caro Quintero, who spent decades in prison in Mexico for the murder of a U.S. drug enforcement agent, pleaded not guilty in a U.S. court on Friday to ...