[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] Mexico Recaptures Elusive Gulf Cartel Boss For Third Time

Read: 1/3/2022 www.vice.com

MEXICO CITY — A top boss of the infamous Gulf Cartel was arrested this weekend in Mexico City for the third time. His detention is one of the highest-profile captures for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s administration. Whether Cárdenas will remain in prison is yet to be seen. 

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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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[Link] Two Tourists Killed as Cartels Creep Into Mexico's Tulum Resort Area

Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com

But the October 20 killings revealed the dark underbelly of Mexico’s Riviera Maya, one that tourism officials along the vacation corridor have struggled to hide.

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[Link] A Drug Cartel Sent a Severed Head to Tijuana’s New Police Chief on His First Day

Read: 12/10/2021 www.vice.com

The next night, two more messages were reportedly found at different points in the city, repeating the same threat of bloodshed, but this time accompanied by what is believed to be animal meat.

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