[Link] Congress Suddenly Wants to Know If US Taxpayers Were Helping El Chapo

Read: 4/3/2023 www.vice.com

The DEA and FBI face questions about whether they tolerated high-level Mexican corruption as US tax dollars flowed to fight the drug war.

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[Link] The US Just Put a $5 Million Bounty on El Chapo’s Brother

Read: 8/11/2021 www.vice.com

MEXICO CITY—The U.S. government is beefing up its search for high ranking members of the Sinaloa cartel, including the brother of incarcerated kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera.  The move comes as fentanyl overdoses in the U.S. continue to surge, and seizures in Mexico spike.

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