Ioan Grillo
Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 00:00
Mexico extradited an alleged drug kingpin accused of smuggling billions of dollars in cocaine to the United States, stepping up pressure on Latin America’s largest smuggling cartel led by its most wanted man, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 00:00
"I would not agree with the premise that the drug war is a failure," Napolitano said. "It is a continuing effort to keep our peoples from becoming addicted to dangerous drugs."
Friday, January 13, 2012 - 00:00
Despite a major government crackdown, Los Zetas keep expanding their reach.
Thursday, December 22, 2011 - 00:00
Cartels usually carry the torpedoes on ships then shoot them passed navy vessels to accomplices who pick them up on the coast
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 00:00
"To make cases against the major players, we have to get into their world," said a DEA agent who has posed as a trafficker to infiltrate Mexican cartels
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 00:00
Grillo outlines both the Mexican and American policy failures that fostered the crisis, which has produced 40,000 murders south of the border since 2006
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - 00:00
Mexican cartels have begun posing as vigilantes, Mexican officials say, just like the Colombians with whom they have long worked
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 00:00
So when Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain joked about a killer electric fence to keep migrants out, political electric shocks surged rapidly south of the Rio Grande.
Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 00:00
Extensive training of the Mexican marines is one of several ways in which the U.S. military machine has quietly escalated its role in Mexico's ultra-violent drug war in the last two years
Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 00:00
Hernandez is one of a rising number of Mexicans filing for political asylum in the United States as a result of the drug war raging across their homeland