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A murdered Ecuadorian cartel boss known as “El Fatal” was buried with hundreds of pistols, shotguns and rifles in his coffin so he could be “armed to the teeth in the afterlife.” Julian Sevillano, the 39-year-old reputed leader of “Los Fatales,” was with his 20-year-old daughter getting a regular car wash in Moroche last Wednesday when they were suddenly ambushed by gunmen, according to La Nacion. Both were killed in a hail of more than a dozen shots blamed on members of a rival gang, the outlet said. Sevillano’s relatives refused to leave the bodies for local police, however, instead...

Violence broke out late on Tuesday evening with flames erupting from cars and vans in several places in the district. Smoke and the smell of burnt metal smothered the neighbourhood, with local residents terrified of the horrific acts taking place around them. In the early hours of this morning, young people from the city, many wearing hoods, broke car windows and threw molotov cocktails inside them. More than a dozen of the hooded mob made their way across the city on foot and by car, with some 50 other youngsters attending the chaotic scene. Several other residents in the neighbourhood...

Video footage shows suspected cartel members firing multiple rounds across the border into the United States. Fox News’ Bill Melugin and his crew captured the gunfire on camera Thursday night from Roma, Texas, and said Texas National Guard soldiers stationed at the border have witnessed many cartel gunfights in the area. Melugin witnessed the gunfire firsthand, calling it "remarkable" Friday on "America's Newsroom." He said National Guard members were unsure whether it was a cartel shootout or just an intimidation tactic. National Guard soldiers told him armed cartel members have stood across the Rio Grande and taunted them multiple times...

In the aforementioned episode of Narcos: Mexico, the cartel members don’t even try to hide what they’re up to. They simply march into polling places and add zeroes to the tabulation sheets so that their chosen party wins. The brazenness of that was shocking to me when it happened; it was obviously fraudulent, but they got away with it. That is what I see happening right now. The Democrats just added zeroes to Biden’s vote count. In Michigan, voting machines counted thousands, if not tens of thousands of votes, for Biden when they were actually cast for Trump. Wisconsin has...

MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon – Multiple cells of independent meth dealers managed to grow in power and size to the point where they began to actively clash with other drug cartels who are trying to control all the drug markets.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican security forces fought an hour-long gun gunbattle Saturday with suspected cartel gunmen in Villa Union, a town in Coahuila state about an hour’s drive southwest of Eagle Pass, Texas, leaving at least 14 people dead, officials said. Coahuila state Gov. Miguel Angel Riquelme told local media four of the dead were police officers killed in the initial confrontation, and that several municipal workers were missing. He said the armed group stormed the town of 3,000 residents in a convoy of trucks, attacking local government offices and prompting state and federal forces to intervene. Ten alleged...

Mexico's $250 million in Frozen Drug Cartel Assets is Chump Change. When a 1960s US Congressman died with $3.5 million under his bed, a that time it was a cause for outrage. But now, the US and Mexican political cultures have both come to accept that politics is a path to riches. "You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook", Kansas City mob-boss Tom Pendergast associate, President Harry S Truman allegedly remarked. A Google response to the question "how much is Obama worth", openly admits, $40 million.Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says Mexico will deal with Narcotraficantes...

It began when a Central American migrant was interviewed on video, threatening to shoot Mexicans who are protesting against the caravan. It is unclear where this took place but most likely in Tijuana Mexico, near the POE with the United States. He threatened to shoot Mexicans that interfered, saying, “If they want violence, that is what they will see. What are 30 a$$holes going to do against 30k migrants?” he asked. He is heard about next in a video posted on social media after he is kidnapped and is being tortured

Full title........................Location scout for Neflix's 'Narcos' is fatally shot while doing advance work in Mexico for the fourth season............................A location scout for the Netflix series Narcos has been fatally shot in Mexico while working on the show's fourth season. Carlos Muñoz Portal, 37, was found dead on Monday in a violent region in central Mexico, his body riddled with bullets inside his car after an apparent chase over back country roads. Local authorities told El Pais that they had no suspects in the case due to the lack of witnesses. A friend of the deceased told the Spanish-language newspaper that...

MEXICO CITY – Clashes broke out between protesters and police officers on Thursday night, as tens of thousands gathered in front of Mexico City’s National Palace in support of families and friends of the 43 students abducted by police in Iguala, in the state of Guerrero on Sept. 26. On a day normally marked by reverent remembrances of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, various marches led by parents and families of the missing students started at different points of the city around 4 p.m. and made their way toward the Zócalo, the city’s central square. As thousands converged on the...

Of the many roles Pat Robertson has assumed over his five-decade-long career as an evangelical leader - including presidential candidate and provocative voice of the right wing - his newest guise may perhaps surprise his followers the most: marijuana legalization advocate. "I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol," Mr. Robertson said in an interview on Wednesday. "I've never used marijuana and I don't intend to, but it's just one of those things that I think: this war on drugs just hasn't succeeded."

A powerful drug cartel is buying off journalists in northern Mexico to work as spies and smother coverage of a spike in killings on the U.S. border...Hitmen from the Gulf cartel are paying reporters around $500 a month and showering them with liquor and prostitutes to intimidate and silence colleagues at radio stations and newspapers in towns near the Laredo-Brownsville area, journalists and editors say. A turf war that has erupted over the past three weeks around the manufacturing city of Reynosa has gone almost completely unreported despite more than 100 deaths, in a news blackout made more notable by...

The original Phony War was the period between mutual declarations of war in September of 1939 and the German invasion of France in May of 1940. There was almost no fighting as neither France nor Britain was prepared and each simply waited. Perhaps they thought it might simply go away. It did not. Similarly the US is apparently hoping that the “Gathering Storm” from the Rio Grand South will somehow resolve itself thinking: Perhaps if we simply avert our eyes, the Mexicans/Columbians/ recently pilloried Hondurans and others will handle it. As one learns early in any leadership program, hope is...

On Tuesday afternoon El Paso Mayor John Cook vetoed a resolution unanimously passed by city council that would have asked the U.S. government to begin a serious debate on legalizing narcotics. Earlier in the day city council passed a resolution, rationing that the best way to stop the drug wars in Juarez may be to legalize the drugs here in the United States. It was part of a larger resolution outlining several steps for the United States and Mexico to take in order to cut down on the number of murders between rival drug cartels. Last year more than 1,600...