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Mexico’s top domestic security official said Friday that sectors of the general public have cooperated with drug cartels in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, and the government is about to launch new social programs there to combat gangs.

Hispanic y Latino News :: November 5th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

In Mexico, fears of a ‘lost generation’ – Violence among young soars as drug cartels recruit more minors

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 14th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

The United States should reinstate a Clinton-era ban on assault weapons to prevent such guns from reaching Mexican drug cartels, former officials from both countries said in a report released Tuesday.

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 30th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Experts compare Mexico’s battle with drug cartels to Colombia’s

Mexican drug cartels shift to growing marijuana on this side of border

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 9th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has accepted the resignation of his attorney general who has been key in the battle against drug cartels. – Eduardo Medina Mora

With a new attorney general, Mexican President Felipe Calderon is trying to get even tougher on drug cartels and those who protect them. – but is Arturo Chavez the right person for the job?

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 3rd, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment

Drug Cartels Make $64 Billion a Year from U.S., Mexican Says

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 24th, 2009

Mexican Drug Cartels Set Up Shop in California Parks

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 16th, 2009

Mexico cartels go from drugs to full-scale mafias

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 12th, 2009

Police in the northern Mexico city of Monterrey have been told not to sit in parked patrol cars observing traffic, because officials suspect they could be spying for criminal gangs or drug cartels.

More than 600 former agents of Mexico’s Federal Investigation Agency, or AFI, are now working for drug cartels, Reforma newspaper said Monday, citing anonymous official sources.

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 10th, 2009

Mexican Drug Cartels Smuggling Stolen Oil To US, Selling It To American Refineries

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: July 23rd, 2009

Mexican drug lords sport flashy, goofy nicknames – Edgar Valdez Villarreal is believed to be the chief hit man for one of Mexico’s most brutal drug cartels. His nickname? “Barbie.”

Mexican Drug Cartels Spread Their Tentacles Into 47 Nations

Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: June 23rd, 2009

Mexican Cartels Lure American Teens as Killers

Hispanic y Latino News :: June 22th, 2009

Drug cartels in Mexico killing street dealers – In Tijuana, they fill at least 90 percent of the body bags, according to top law enforcement officials.

War Without Borders In Heartland Death, Traces of Heroin’s Spread – This NYT’s series examines the impact of Mexican drug cartels on both sides of the border.

YouTube riddled with drug cartel videos, messages – The violence among Mexican drug cartels is not filling just the streets of Mexican border towns: It’s also spilling into gruesome online videos and chat rooms.

Mexico’s government on Monday offered up to $2 million each for information leading to the arrest of 24 top drug lords in a public challenge to the cartels’ violent grip on the country.

President Obama is finalizing plans to move federal agents, equipment and other resources to the border with Mexico to support Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s campaign against violent drug cartels, according to U.S. security officials.

Leaders of the Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives regretted Friday that the recession has contributed to reducing the amount of aid going to Mexico to bolster its fight against powerful drug cartels.

U.S. Gun Industry Feeds Gun Violence on U.S./Mexico Border, Violence Policy Center Analyst Tells Congress

Mexican army special forces paratroopers were among more than 4,000 soldiers who arrived in Juárez during the weekend as part of a surge in the federal government’s effort to battle a crime wave sparked by warring drug cartels.

Mexico is decrying Forbes Magazine’s decision to include the reputed leader of one of the country’s most violent drug cartels on its list of billionaires.

Sean Penn May Star in Movie About Mexican Drug Cartels

HOUSTON — The drug cartels that have brought fear and crime to the U.S.-Mexico border are bringing violence to this city that has long been a major staging ground for illegal drug imports, authorities say.

ATLANTA — In a city where Coca-Cola, United Parcel Service and Home Depot are the titans of industry, there are new powerful forces on the block: Mexican drug cartels.

Mexican Drug Cartels Load Up On US Bullets

The Mexican president has blamed US “corruption” for hampering his nation’s efforts to combat violent drug cartels. Felipe Calderon also told the AFP news agency that the main cause of Mexico’s drug gang problems was “having the world’s biggest consumer [of drugs] next to us”.

With Force, Mexican Drug Cartels Get Their Way

In what officials caution is now a dangerous and even deadly crime wave, Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of America, with more incidents than any other city in the world outside of Mexico City and over 370 cases last year alone. – spurred by Mexico’s drug cartels

News Summaries for February 1st, 2009

Juárez violence: U.S. assistance is considered, warring cartels may try for truce – The deadly street shootings, decapitations and other killings in Juárez are taking place at a higher pace than at the same time last year

News Summary – January 23rd-26th, 2009

Colombian and Dominican drug organizations have been detected in El Paso, in addition to the Mexican drug cartels, according to the National Drug Intelligence Center’s report titled “National Drug Threat Assessment 2009.”

News Summary for January 21st, 2009

Mexican cartels have taken over most of the drug trade in the United States, and are working with 20 gangs, including the Barrio Aztecas, according to a just-released report by the National Drug Intelligence Center titled “National Drug Threat Assessment 2009.”

News Summary for December 23rd – 28th, 2008

Mexico honors soldiers beheaded by drug cartel – Mexican President Felipe Calderón said an attack shows that his government’s crackdown is putting pressure on the drug cartels and he promises no mercy in pursuing them.

Mexico drug wars spill across the border U.S. – Few regions of the U.S. are immune to drug-trafficking organizations that have left a trail of death, kidnappings and other crimes.

Blogante News Summary for October 20th, 2008

U.S. drug czar John Walters said Friday that Mexico’s drug cartels are crossing the border to kidnap and kill inside the United States, and promised that an anti-drug aid package to help Mexico to fight the gangs will be ready soon.

Documentary ‘Border’ Delivers Rarely Seen Side of Illegal Immigration

News Summary for Monday – August 18th, 2008

News Summary for Tuesday – August 12th, 2008

Essentials for Tuesday – August 12th, 2008

Targeted by drug cartels, Mexican politician quickly relocates – Mexican Congressman David Figueroa quickly confirmed last week as the country’s new consul general in San Jose, California

Blogante News Summary for Monday – August 11th, 2008

Blogante Essentials for Monday – August 11th, 2008

Officials say U.S. automatic weapons, ammunition and other arms are pouring across the Mexican border to drug traffickers engaged in an internal war.

Mexican cartels running pot farms in U.S. national forest – $1 billion worth of marijuana plants destroyed in Sequoia National Forest

Blogante News Summary for Sunday – August 10th, 2008

Tijuana: In the cartels’ shadow

Drug war mayhem instills a new fear – Drug-related killings have taken thousands of lives, but now those uninvolved in the cartel battles are falling victim, even children.

Mexican army abuses need civil trials

Coyotes turning to new tactics to thwart law

Mexico’s drug war shows a virulent feminine side

Mexican Police Official Assassinated As Drug War Escalates

ICE doubles security efforts to ensure violence doesn’t spill over – El Paso / Juárez

El Paso to ask feds for help treating wounded Mexican cops

DHS: Remarks by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Department of Commerce Secretary Gutierrez at the State of Immigration Address

Blogante News for Tuesday – June 10th, 2008

U.S. House Approves Human Rights Rules for Mexico Anti-Drug Aid

U.S., Mexico fighting flow of firearms to drug cartels

The McCain Doctrine for Mexico?

US border governors seek action on security, crime fighting as Mexico faces wave of violence

The Drug Wars Body Counts Continue To Mount in Mexico

New phase seen in Mexico’s drug war

Blogante News for Thursday – May 15th, 2008

U.S.-trained forces reportedly helping Mexican cartels

Drug cartel suspected in Mexico City killing

Democrats wrong on cutting Mexican anti-drug aid

Mexicans conquer U.S. ‘meth’ trade – WHILE METHAMPHETAMINE LABS IN THE U.S. WERE BEING BUSTED, MEXICAN DRUG GANGS RAMPED UP THEIR OPERATIONS.

3,000 troops deployed in Mexican drug wars

Blogante News for Friday – April 25th, 2008

Mexico cartels post ‘help wanted’ ads – for army soldiers who become hit men

Blogante News for Monday – March 31st, 2008

Drug cartels training near U.S. border

Mexican drug cartels move into human smuggling – Immigrants as commodities

Blogante News for Tuesday – February 26th, 2008

Tijuana drug cartels feel crackdown

U.S. Government Declares Country’s Marijuana Users Responsible for Fueling Mexican Cartel Violence (Latina Lista)

Mexican Military returns guns to border police – (Tamaulipas border)

Blogante News for Tuesday – February 5th, 2008

Mexico police caught between drug crackdown, cartels

A Deadly Turf War Over Cuban Illegals

Blogante News for Thursday – January 17th, 2008

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