
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker told Fox News on Monday he supports building a wall along the U.S-Mexico border and ending birthright citizenship, echoing GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s immigration plan.
by Katie McHugh17 Aug 2015, 5:23 PM PST0

Famed Mexican top capo Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera had been targeted by teams of foreign mercenaries traveling to Mexico to kill him, his attorney in Mexico said.
by Ildefonso Ortiz15 Aug 2015, 6:41 AM PST0

The U.S Coast Guard announced this week that they have seized more cocaine on the Pacific high seas in the past ten months than in the past three years combined, a total of 32 metric tons of cocaine.
by Frances Martel11 Aug 2015, 11:33 AM PST0

Online publications continue to erroneously hype a violent Mexican cartel by claiming that it is the most powerful such organization in the world, even though the top security agencies in the U.S. and Mexico have already dismissed those claims.
by Ildefonso Ortiz3 Aug 2015, 10:37 AM PST0

Two weeks have passed since the scandalous escape of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán from a maximum-security prison, and speculation is running rampant. There are still no solid clues as to where the kingpin may be holed up. In the meantime, fingers are being pointed across our southwest border and serious questions are being raised about Mexico’s ability to control its drug war at any level.
by Sylvia Longmire25 Jul 2015, 9:31 AM PST0

Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto reformed his country’s energy policy and invited outside intelligence and investment to boost slumping oil output. In late 2013, he amended the Constitution to allow private and foreign companies to explore and produce oil and gas in Mexico—for the first time in nearly eight decades. The amendments put an end to the government monopoly. Nieto hopes his reforms will bring in $50 billion in investment by 2018.
by Marita Noon20 Jul 2015, 8:17 AM PST0

One question regarding the infamous prison escape by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera has been addressed by Mexican authorities when they confirmed this week that prosecutors in the U.S. had asked for El Chapo to face drug charges in America.
by Ildefonso Ortiz18 Jul 2015, 8:51 AM PST0

With Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera’s second major escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico, his fans are growing in number. The drug lord known as “El Chapo” is becoming something of a folk hero in Sinaloa, Mexico, the killer’s hometown.
by Warner Todd Huston17 Jul 2015, 9:31 PM PST0

Pitbull had some words of warning for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Thursday night: “Watch out for El Chapo!”
by Daniel Nussbaum17 Jul 2015, 3:08 PM PST0

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump declared “we should boycott Mexico” in an interview set to air on Sunday’s broadcast of “The Rita Cosby Show” on 77 WABC in New York. Trump said of Mexico, “It’s a corrupt place. And the
by Ian Hanchett17 Jul 2015, 11:58 AM PST0

Since the brazen prison escape by famed drug lord El Chapo, the Mexican government has been dealing with an overwhelming amount of criticism that has turned the country’s image into a big joke. The latest addition to the ridicule comes from Next Media Animation, a Taiwan-based studio that has turned the escape of Joaquin Guzman Loera into a short animated parody that highlights Mexico’s corruption by portraying the drug lord as a tiny, cocaine-snorting, taco-eating, VIP guest pampered by the guards and enjoying inside help in escaping the prison.
by Ildefonso Ortiz17 Jul 2015, 6:38 AM PST0

Mexican authorities have released the jail house video of infamous drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera as he is seen preparing his escape.
by Ildefonso Ortiz15 Jul 2015, 7:17 AM PST0

The veracity of two photographs, initially published by El Blog De Narco, has been questioned by various individuals on both sides of the border. The photos, allegedly of Joaquin Guzman Loera, more commonly known as “El Chapo,” have been aggregated by countless news organizations. They appear to show a mustached man who some claim to be Guzman riding in an airplane or drinking a beer.
by Ildefonso Ortiz14 Jul 2015, 5:24 AM PST0

The spectacular escape of the world’s most notorious drug trafficker — Joaquín Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo — from a Mexican high-security prison is a massive embarrassment for the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto.
by Breitbart Texas13 Jul 2015, 5:10 PM PST0

Since 2014, U.S. federal agents learned of various plots by Mexico’s most famous drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and his people to bust out of prison. The U.S. government shared that information with Mexico yet the capo still managed to escape.
by Ildefonso Ortiz13 Jul 2015, 4:49 PM PST0

In the aftermath of the escape of famed capo Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Leora, a Mexican bishop has made headlines by arguing for a statue built in honor of the drug lord.
by Ildefonso Ortiz13 Jul 2015, 11:32 AM PST0

A Twitter account claiming to be Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, and identified by some news outlets as being run by his son, warned Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that he would “eat his f*cking words” following derisive comments Trump made regarding the criminal.
by Michael Lucchese13 Jul 2015, 11:20 AM PST0

As the world continues to be in awe at the apparent escape by Mexico’s most famous drug trafficker, “El Chapo,” public opinion continues to castigate the Mexican government’s inability to extradite top capos or corrupt officials.
by Ildefonso Ortiz13 Jul 2015, 6:31 AM PST0

Mexican drug dealers really do believe in going out with a bang, a bang for their buck that is.
by Javier Manjarres12 Jul 2015, 8:21 PM PST0

The world’s most famous drug lord has managed to escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico for a second time. Mexico’s National Security Commission confirmed that on Saturday night Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera had escaped the maximum security prison known as Altiplano.
by Ildefonso Ortiz12 Jul 2015, 6:54 AM PST0

Mexican authorities have undertaken a desperate manhunt for former Sinaloa drug cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán after he escaped from the Altiplano maximum security prison near Mexico City. It was the second time Guzmán escaped from prison; the first was in 2001.
by Joel B. Pollak12 Jul 2015, 5:31 AM PST0