Mexican Senator: ‘Trump is Right, Mexico Ruled by Cartels’
One of the most vocal federal senators in Mexico publicly claimed that U.S. President Donald Trump is right in his statements about the country being ruled by drug cartels.

One of the most vocal federal senators in Mexico publicly claimed that U.S. President Donald Trump is right in his statements about the country being ruled by drug cartels.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has identified and sanctioned two Mexican banks and one brokerage firm over their alleged role in helping multiple cartels launder millions of dollars.

Federal prosecutors filed narco-terrorism charges against leading members of the Sinaloa Cartel. The move is the first of its kind following the February designation by the U.S. State Department of six Mexican cartels, including the Sinaloa Cartel, as foreign terrorist organizations.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced the targeting of a cartel boss behind one of the largest fentanyl seizures in Mexican history.

Mexico extradited 29 bosses from cartels designated by the Trump administration as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) on Thursday. Included in the list is the accused assassin of a cartel attorney in Dallas who U.S. authorities have wanted for 13 years. The first known image of Jose Rodolfo Villarreal-Hernandez — “El Gato” — was first revealed by Breitbart Texas.

A Mexican drug lord on the FBI’s Most-Wanted fugitives list is wanted for ordering a cartel hit in Texas. He currently controls a powerful money laundering and extortion operation in one of the most exclusive suburbs in the border state of Nuevo Leon.

U.S. federal prosecutors accuse Mexico’s former secretary of defense and some of his top aides of working with drug traffickers for years. The allegations followed the highly publicized arrest in California by U.S. federal agents and the subsequent court appearance of the former general. Prosecutors unsealed a five-count indictment against him.

Mexican drug cartels continue to be the greatest criminal drug threat to the U.S., federal authorities stated in one of their latest reports. Federal agencies reported that drug cartels in Mexico continue to be the wholesale sources of drugs for street gangs that in turn push narcotics at the local level.

A former governor of Tamaulipas, Mexico, is finally expected to appear in a U.S. federal court after spending close to five years on the run from U.S. federal authorities. The cartel-connected governor will face a U.S. federal judge for his initial hearing in connection with 11 charges including drug trafficking and money laundering.

MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon — Un narco-mensaje dejado junto a la víctima de una reciente ejecución mantiene a las autoridades de este estado preocupados puesto que el contenido de los mensajes apuntan a nuevas alianzas y a una continuación de la violencia que se vive en la región.

MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon – A narco-message left next to the victim of a recent execution is causing concern among authorities since the content hints to new alliances and a continuation of the violence in the region.

Más de tres meses después de que las autoridades estatales de Tamaulipas arrestaran a un exgobernador de ese estado por cargos de malversación, el Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos emitió formalmente una solicitud de extradición solicitando que el ex político sea enviado a Texas donde es buscado por lavado de dinero federal y cargos de fraude.

More than three months after Tamaulipas authorities arrested a former governor on embezzlement charges, the U.S. Department of State has formally issued an extradition request, asking that the politician be sent to Texas for federal money laundering and fraud charges.

The ongoing struggle between the Sinaloa Cartel faction known as Los Salazares and the Beltran Leyva Cartel led to a new wave of violence as gunmen executed six victims in one day near a beach resort.

Residents in the border state of Sonora are bracing for another wave of violence as factions of the Sinaloa and Beltran Leyva Cartels continue fighting for control of lucrative drug smuggling territories.

SAN PEDRO, Nuevo León — Un equipo de sicarios ejecuto a uno de los policías de mas alto rango en esta zona metropolitana. El líder policial antes había recibido amenazas de parte del crimen organizado y había perdido un hermano ante una ejecución similar.

SAN PEDRO, Nuevo León — A team of cartel gunmen executed one of the highest ranking police officers in this metropolitan area. The police chief had previously been threatened by Mexican cartels and had lost a brother to a similar attack.

Cartel gunmen killed three men and injured a fourth in an apparent hit outside a bar in one of the most exclusive suburbs in this city.

The accused cartel-linked former governor of the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas claimed in Italian court that he does not want to be extradited to the U.S. for multiple drug trafficking and money laundering charges. The politician faces allegations of being a surrogate of Mexico’s Gulf, Los Zetas, and Beltran Leyva Cartels.

One of the top figures with Mexico’s Beltran Leyva Cartel tried to bribe his way out of capture by offering $500,000 to state cops. In a rare turn of events Mexican authorities refused the bribe and slapped a pair of handcuffs on him.

Mexican authorities have arrested a top Mexican drug lord believed to have been the mastermind behind the kidnapping of top Mexican drug lord El Chapo’s sons as well as the ransacking of the home where his mother lived.

MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon — A Mexican mayor with a history of drug use and of having made a deal with organized crime, took to Twitter to speak out against Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump, saying that he will see him “in hell.”

Mexican authorities have revealed that the son of Mexican drug lord Joaquin El Chapo” Guzman may be among the group of men kidnapped from an upscale restaurant in the resort town of Puerto Vallarta.

A Mexican drug cartel appears to be ready to go to war once more with the fearsome Sinaloa Cartel. The hostilities began in the most offensive way, the Beltran Leyva Cartel ransacked the home of Consuelo Loera Perez, the mother of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera.

Two Mexican citizens have been convicted of having taken part in a cartel execution in a Dallas suburb earning them an automatic life sentence in federal prison. A third man connected to the execution had previously pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing.

After almost three years, three cartel members will be going to trial this month on stalking and conspiracy to commit murder for hire charges in connection with a Mexican cartel assassination in the Dallas Suburb of Southlake.

One of Mexico’s top drug traffickers, who used to be a close associate of famed capo Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman before turning into his bitter rival, has pleaded guilty to drug conspiracy charges in a U.S. federal courtroom.
