Tag: SINALOA CARTEL

  • Mexico’s Narco Televisa Scandal: The Impunity of the Elite

    Even as he prepares to take office in a month, a mushrooming scandal in Mexico threatens that country’s new President, Enrique Pena Nieto.  Some call it Mexico’s Watergate; the comparison might even be apt.  Like Watergate—which picked up momentum only after Richard Nixon had won the ’72 Presidential election—the Narco Televisa Scandal is heating up…

  • Source: Drug cartels control Mexican airports

    A high-level attorney for the Beltran Leyva faction of the Sinaloa Cartel has revealed that two of Mexico's busiest international airports, in Cancun and Toluca, are controlled by Mexican drug cartels. His disclosures shed new light on the mystery which still—more than five years later—surrounds the two planes from St. Petersburg Florida caught carrying almost…

  • Mexico billionaire’s “caravan of cocaine”

    A new scandal over a politically well-connected Mexican oligarch's possible involvement in drug trafficking is erupting in Mexico. Controversy is raging over the refusal of Mexico’s Attorney General to investigate connections between 18 Mexicans busted for carrying $9.2 million in drug money several weeks ago in Nicaragua, and Latin America’s largest TV network, Televisa, and…

  • Mexico’s new President owes election to “Narco-Televisa”

    In the Drug War, where producing confusion is as important as churning out ‘product,’ there are more versions of the truth than in the Japanese film classic Rashomon. Even so, the shocking new scandal breaking in Nicaragua makes it clear that the most accurate way to describe Mexico’s new President-elect is as  “Senor Narco-Presidente.”

  • Drug Lords, Drug ‘Ladies,’ & Alvaro Uribe’s sister-in-law

    In the noise and confusion attending the extradition to the US  on the same day last week of three women involved in cocaine trafficking from South America,  questions raised by the family connection of one to the former President of Colombia went unanswered. Did Alvaro Uribe okay the loading of 3.6 tons of cocaine at…

  • 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…

  • Pics of new Mexican President with Sinaloa cartel lieutenant

    He hasn’t even taken office yet, but Mexico’s new President Enrique Peña Nieto has already got some ‘splainin’ to do. Mexico City newspapers today reported the discovery of pictures of the not-yet-inaugarated new President in which he appears chummy with a man  arrested yesterday in Madrid and charged with importing 337 kilos of cocaine into…

  • 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…