Tag: Mexican drug cartels

  • Spain Drug Bust Links Chapo Guzman, Mexico’s new President

    When a lieutenant for the Sinaloa Cartel was arrested this week in Spain for drug trafficking, it became a major scandal in Mexico for a curious reason. Until several days ago no one had ever heard of someone from a drug cartel posting pictures of a drug trafficking operation-in-progress on Facebook. Yet that’s just what…

  • Arrest of 4 Mexican Generals linked to downed CIA drug plane

    The investigation and recent arrest of four prominent Generals in the Mexican Army on charges of  protecting cocaine flights for Mexican drug cartels began with a series of seismic shifts in the drug trade that were set in motion more than five years ago by two American-registered planes from St Petersburg Florida —a DC9 airliner…

  • HSBC Narco-Bank: Too big to fail, too big to go to jail

    The big news in the US Senate’s Permanent Sub-Committee on Investigation’s 340-page report released last week on drug money-laundering by London’s HSBC Bank, the world’s 4th largest, is the answer to the question: Is there a bigger Drug Lord in the world than Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel Honcho Shorty (El Chapo) Guzman? Perhaps surprisingly, the answer…

  • Mexican Drug Lord linked to 5.5 ton-cocaine bust

    Six months ago, the LAPD was telling reporters the decapitated head found underneath the Hollywood Sign was the result of a "gay lovers triangle."  Six months later, they were still pursuing the gay "thing," only instead of a gay boyfriend in Hollywood, their chief suspect was the now-notorious Canadian Cannibal.  Their efforts at disinformation were…

  • Disinfo 2012: Canadian Cannibal meets Hollywood Head

    Months of exclusive reporting on this website that 66-year old Hervey Medellin, the decapitation victim known as the Hollywood Head, was not murdered as the result of a 'gay love triangle gone wrong,' as reported, but because of long-standing connections to drug trafficking through the notorious and now-defunct Cali Cartel was confirmed (typically, without attribution)…

  • FBI Investigating Hollywood Head

    The murder-decapitation of a 66-year old man whose head was found beneath the Hollywood Sign four months ago is now a Federal case, the MadCow Morning News has learned.  The development is a sure sign that the LAPD’s theory about a gay love triangle gone wrong is no longer being pursued.

  • “Hollywood Head” Was Drug Cartel ‘Concierge’

    The decapitated head found in a plastic bag on a hiking trail in the shadow of the  Hollywood Sign four months ago belonged to a man known to local authorities as  the former “concierge” in Los Angeles for the now-defunct Cali drug cartel, the Mad Cow MorningNews has learned exclusively. “His activities were legal; he…