Nathan Jones
Monday, May 23, 2016 - 10:39
Two judges in Mexico have ruled that there is nothing stopping the extradition of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman to the United States, and following the first of those rulings Guzman was transferred on May 7 to a prison in Ciudad Juarez near the Texas border.
Monday, January 6, 2014 - 00:00
Colorado’s legalization of marijuana will have a negligible impact on drug-related violence in Mexico because Colorado is too small a market
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 - 00:00
Resources should be spent on warrant-based wiretaps, cellphone tracking of kidnappers, additional agents to interview suspects' family members and follow up on leads, as well as prosecutors to bring the cases to trial.
Friday, October 12, 2012 - 00:00
Extreme and symbolic violence has become a form communication in the context of weak Mexican state capacity and the presence of powerful organized crime groups.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012 - 00:00
The apparent victory may be increasingly irrelevant as cocaine markets diffuse to other regions and prescription drug abuse becomes an increasing problem.
Monday, July 30, 2012 - 00:00
If Mexico implements president-elect Enrique Pena Nieto’s proposed paramilitary force (gendarmerie) composed of 40,000 former soldiers, the success of the force and its impact upon drug-related violence will depend on its funding levels and initial sele
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 - 00:00
While US and Mexican enforcement efforts forced leadership to change hands, the new generation of the AFO has proven as resilient if not more so than the first.
Friday, May 25, 2012 - 00:00
While the government response cannot take full credit for the reduction in violence, it most certainly played a role, and that effort was not led by a federal police force.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 00:00
Some analysts have suggested that, with state forces separated from the drug trade, there will be no mediator to enforce agreements between criminal groups
Friday, August 19, 2011 - 00:00
Mexico's current unprecedented level of cooperation in extraditing organized crime suspects to the U.S. is good news in the short term, but could build stronger ties between U.S. prison gangs and Mexican drug cartels.