Mexican Drug Cartels Are Operating in All But 12 States
We don't know much. But we know that they're here.
Articles tagged "mexico"
The World Needs More Smog-Gobbling Buildings
Mexico City is the latest to show off a building that sucks up pollution.
Is This the Real Joaquín "el Chapo" Guzmán?
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.
Drug Lords: Inside Mexico's Narco Churches
Cartels are high on God.
Drug Cartels Are Growing Tons of Weed Inside the U.S.
It's official. And real messy.
An Oil Rig Just Exploded in the Gulf of Mexico
Isn’t this just perfect, on the day — one day! — after BP was handed a record $4.5 billion fine for the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
This Is What Mexico's Cartel Land-Grab Saga Looks Like
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.
With Recent Success Against Zeta Bosses, Is Mexico Turning the Tide of the Drug War?
The Mexican drug war is not often a repository of good news. But in the past two weeks, teams of commandos south of the border have captured or killed three leaders of the infamously brutal Zetas cartel. The latest may just be the godfather, Zetas fo…
The U.S. and Mexican Narcos Are Smoking the Peace Pipe
Or so purports a cache of leaked emails from the private U.S. security firm Stratfor. The correspondences cite a Mexican diplomat who claims that not only is the U.S. government working in cahoots with Mexican drug cartels to funnel product into Amer…
Is Mexico's Hidden Spy Center A Complete Bust?
Nobody has the slightest idea who (what?) has been busy "funneling $350 million worth of whiz-bang drug-bust border spy tech":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/7/nobody-s-sure-who-s-supplying-mexico-with-350-million-worth-of-border-spy-tech to the M…
Google Street View Goes To the Weirdest Places
When your grandparents were young and curious and eager to see the world, they had to join the Navy. Today, you can just go to Google. Now five years old, Google Street View is an endless source of fun and adventure. Sure, there are the serendipitous…
How a Former DEA Agent Says the Narco Wars Will End: They Won't
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…
Enrique Pena Nieto Is the New Face of Mexico's Drug Saga: or, Just Another Monday for the Cartels
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…
Catapults and Jalapeños: The Ingenious Smuggling Tech of the World's Top Drug Kingpin
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…
Cartel Radio: Drugs and Kidnappings and Blood on the Air
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…
Backyard Rocketeer: Jetpacking Laypeople
Juan Gallegos builds jetpacks
