A mother whose daughter was kidnapped and murdered by a Mexican drug cartel spent years stalking and hunting down her child’s captors in a dangerous – and ultimately fatal – mission mirroring the plot of 2008 film Taken. Miriam Elizabeth Rodríguez Martínez of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, became one of Mexico’s most fearless activists for missing … Read more
Woman and two men are left screaming in the street after having their hands hacked off ‘by Mexican drug cartel as punishment for stealing’ Three people found dumped beside a highway in Mexico with their hands cut off Trio – a woman aged 22 and two men aged 23 and 25 – were discovered by … Read more
Peruvian authorities uncover 590-foot-long tunnel ‘financed by El Chapo’s old cartel’ that was built in foiled attempt to spring drug traffickers from prison Peruvian jail officials discovered an underground tunnel that was partly built to free a group of drug traffickers from a prison in Lima The National Police of Peru said the tunnel’s construction … Read more
Mexican authorities have captured a man wanted for his purported connection to the massacre of three Mormon mothers and their six children last year. The Attorney General’s Office announced that José Lara was arrested by security forces in Ciudad Juárez on Wednesday, on the one-year anniversary of the bloody incident. Lara is accused of being … Read more
A Mexican drug cartel has begun using consumer drones weaponized with small explosives as they continue to wage war against rivals. Mexico’s drug cartels have boasted a notorious reputation for being well armed, with some groups owning armored gun trucks donned with heavy-grade machine guns and a stockpiles of weapons. Now, at least one vicious … Read more
The Great Train Robber and the Colombian drug lord: How Charlie Wilson’s secret pact with notorious cartel boss Pablo Escobar helped get Britain hooked on cocaine A new book explores the less well-known latter half of Charlie Wilson’s career Wilson, known as one of the Great Train Robbers, had links to Pablo Escobar Book claims … Read more
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel has become Mexico’s fastest-rising criminal organization, with a reputation for ruthlessness and violence unlike any since the fall of the old Zetas cartel. In parts of the country it is fighting medieval-style battles, complete with fortified redoubts, to expand nationwide, from the outskirts of Mexico City, into the tourist resorts around … Read more
A Colombian drug lord who helped create the infamous Medellin cartel along with Pablo Escobar has been extradited to Germany after serving 30 years in a prison in America. Carlos Lehder Rivas, who was among the clan of traffickers who helped smuggle cocaine from Colombia to the U.S. in the 1970s and 1980s, landed in … Read more