He's known to frequent bustling urban areas, brazenly hiding in plain sight, but few pictures of the world's most powerful cartel boss exist. The rub? The most widely disseminated photo of "el Chapo" may not even be of him.
Because it's not just HSBC.
Cartels are high on God.
It's official. And real messy.
As it turns out, they're bringing a whole lot more than mediocre weed and high-grade Central American blow.
The narco sub’s speedy development is the perfect example of the old “where there’s a will, there’s a way” adage that’s fueled all aspects of the drug war, and stands as proof that no matter how much jail time is threatened or how many armed guards l…
Thanks to a new data visualization project by a guy at Harvard, the epic, rapid-fire turfs wars that have shaped Mexico’s narco saga just got a lot clearer.
You can almost hear the lowly mules--both of whom fled the scene--cry out in that sort of self-deprecating _God damnit_ that only comes when you know you really fucked up.
It was only a matter of time. When Motherboard "caught up with the so-called godfather of narco subs":http://motherboard.vice.com/2010/7/4/go-inside-a-drug-submarine-with-the-narco-sub-godfather a few years back, the cartel's seaborne coke craft were…
If there's one constant to Mexico's ongoing narco saga, it's that the cartels stop at nothing to get America high. Their arsenal of border-skipping smuggle tech - "million-dollar narco subs, cans of coke-stuffed jalapeños, weed catapults, dune buggie…
He may not formally take office until year's end, but I'll be damned if Mexico's president-elect Enrique Pena Nieto isn't already talking up his retooling the narco-state's counterdrugs policy. It's maybe way, way too early to tell whether his couter…
Today may or may not be the start of a new era in Mexico. It all depends on who you ask. For those who cast votes in yesterday's presidential elections for either the Democratic Revolution or National Action Parties, Mexico is in regress. Their r…
For a semi-illiterate grammar school dropout, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is a bloody mastermind. Guzmán, 55, sits atop Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, which by all accounts is arguably the richest, most powerful crime syndicate in history. That's him on…
If 2011 was a year for Internet-driven global protest, it was also a time of sado-crafty Mexican crime syndicates fully wiring up and operating on their own increasingly sophisticated private networks. Drug cartels have been overhauling and expan…
