Wedding allegedly ran the billion-dollar operation for the past 13 years from Mexico, from where the organization allegedly moved about 60 tons of cocaine per year.
Footage shared to social media reportedly shows a drug lord named ‘Taliban’ being tied to an anchor before being thrown overboard Jack Sparrow-like from a cartel’s boat.
The powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel, or CJNG, is led by a notorious kingpin known as El Mencho. With rumours circulating that he’s dead, the cartel faces a battle for survival.
Marco Antonio Paredes-Machado, who insists he was not a major player in the Sinaloa Cartel, is arguing that he was sent to this dangerous supermax prison as a “torturous” move to get him to talk about El Chapo.
Dairo Antonio Usuga David, also known as ‘Otoniel’, is Colombia’s most-wanted drug trafficker. Sorry, was, because he’s now been detained by local security forces after escaping arrest for more than a decade.
Gunmen in Mexican special forces uniforms broke a cartel boss out of a prison located just miles from the American border.
Tourists on a Cancun beach, as well as vendors, came under attack from gunmen who arrived via jet ski and opened fire.
The fighting between cartels for control over certain territories has always been brutal, but in recent years, things have gone into a downward spiral of increasing violence.
For a long time, the war on drugs has relied on the ‘kingpin strategy’ – take out the big guns, and a syndicate will fall apart. That’s proving to be a flawed approach.
For the 800 000 residents of Culiacán, a city in northwestern Mexico, violence is an almost daily part of their lives.
Mexican authorities tried to arrest El Chapo’s son, Ovidio Guzmán, but were forced to release him when the cartel launched an epic gun battle in the streets.
You’ve seen them on TV and in movies, but what does being an undercover cop actually entail? This guy knows a thing or two about blending in.
There’s a stretch of the U.S – Mexican border that is known for its illicit tunnels, although this one might just take the cake.
Pablo Escobar is the world’s most notorious cocaine smuggler, his personal wealth estimated at around $30 billion in his prime. He had a rather nice digs too.
If you’re intrigued by the El Chapo escape (and we know you are) then here’s the video that takes you inside the prison and shows just how he managed to become a free man.
If the latest pictures are to believed Mexican druglord El Chapo is spending his first few days as a free man living it up. I bet that beer tastes good.
Imagine standing in a shopping mall parking lot and having six pounds of meth land next to you. That’s right, drugs are falling from the sky in Mexico.
Being a Mexican cartel kingpin pays really well. After a decade long manhunt, the elusive Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was detained in Mazatlán, Mexico. Rated as the number one supplier of illegal drugs in the US, he even made the Forbes billionaire list.
Billions of dollars in sales. Quick shipments. Ultra-efficient distribution chains. Carefully orchestrated PR. Drone delivery. If you think we’re talking about a major business like Google or Amazon, you’d be wrong.
Philip Austin Collins, the nephew of Genesis front man, Phil Collins (weird that they have the same name) is in a Peruvian jail for being found with £3 million (R46,321,083) worth of cocaine last year, and allegedly recruited these two drug mules from behind bars to continue his dirty work: Melissa Reid, 19 (Top) and […]