The American woman killed in the crossfire of a drug gang shootout at a beach club in the Mexican resort city of Tulum earlier this month was spending time over the border to get away from rising crime in California, her husband said. Niko Honarbakhsh, a 44-year-old Los Angeles native, was shot and killed on […]
An American woman and an alleged drug dealer from Belize were killed in a shootout between drug gangs at a beach club in the Mexican resort city of Tulum Friday night, officials confirmed. The State Attorney General’s office of the Caribbean coast state of Quintana Roo clarified that the woman had no connection to the […]
In the fight against Mexican cartels, Texas law enforcement recently took control of a dangerous island used by human traffickers. The Epoch Times spoke to Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, who identified Fronton Island as possibly “the most violent part” of the Texas–Mexico border. Belonging to Texas, Fronton Island is an island in the Rio […]
Another political leader was assassinated in Ecuador on Monday, bringing the number of politics-related slayings within the last four weeks to three in the run-up to the country’s presidential elections on Sunday. Pedro Briones, leader of left-wing Revolución Ciudadana, the party of former President Rafael Correa, was shot dead when he stood outside his house […]
A team of FBI agents dispatched to Ecuador has already met with local law enforcement as part of a joint effort to investigate last week’s assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio. The 59-year-old candidate was shot dead in broad daylight while leaving a campaign rally at a school stadium, less than two weeks before Ecuador’s […]
Judge Tanya Chutkan announced on Friday that she will issue a protective order in former President Trump’s 2020 election case. The judge said at a hearing that while Mr. Trump does have free speech rights, those rights are not absolute. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign has renewed calls for Secret Service protection for him […]
Agustín Intriago, Major of Manta, Ecuador’s third-largest city, was assassinated on Sunday by hitmen, who opened fire at him during a visit to a construction site. One bystander was also killed, and four others were injured. The 38-year-old mayor was hit in the chest by at least three bullets during a public event unveiling a […]
The pool of Republicans running for president just got a little more crowded as biotechnology businessman Vivek Ramaswamy announced his candidacy. A U.S. federal jury found Mexico’s former security minister guilty of drug trafficking charges. Prosecutors say he took millions of dollars in bribes from the cartels he was supposed to be fighting. We have […]
A 25-year United States Border Patrol agent and a Texas Sheriff told Congressional lawmakers that Mexican cartels are pushing illegal immigrants across the border in orchestrated surges to distract law enforcement from drug-smuggling operations targeting other sections of the border, contributing to the corresponding wave of deaths related to fentanyl poisoning. “Each and every day […]
Former DEA Special Agent in Charge, Derek Maltz said, just like for COVID-19, an operation warp speed is needed to deal with cartels at the U.S. southern border. His statement comes as Texas Governor Greg Abbott calls for a federal designation of cartels as terrorist organizations after a state designation was implemented.
A win for the Justice Department — it regains access to documents marked classified from Mar-a-Lago — allowing it to resume its criminal probe into former President Trump.
Is the Federal Reserve going to roll out a system of digital currency? The White House says it is exploring the risks and benefits of such a system.
In light of Texas designating cartels as terrorist organizations — a former DEA agent is calling for an operation warp speed to crack down on them. He cites Florida’s AG calling fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction and compares Mexican cartels to ISIS.
To discuss the border crisis, NTD sat down with Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.). The congressman says the cartels now have absolute control over our southern border, and they’ve brought numerous terrorists into the States. We also talked about the Hispanic community’s reaction to the Biden administration’s policies.
NTD’s sister media, The Epoch Times, recently reported that authorities just seized a record amount of the deadly drug fentanyl at the southern border in Texas. NTD spoke with Congressman Chip Roy (R-Texas) to discuss the situation.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is inviting attorneys general from 12 states to the southern border for a two-day border summit. He’s renewing criticism of the Biden administration for failing to secure the border. He also accuses Tik Tok of helping human traffickers.
The United States has seen a record number of apprehensions at the southern border with record seizures of the deadly drug fentanyl. NTD spoke with former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott to hear his perspective.
MEXICO CITY—Police found the bullet-ridden bodies of 11 men in the western state of Michoacan, where several drug cartels have been waging bloody turf battles. State prosecutors said late Monday the bodies were found near the town of Tarecuato, in the northern part of Michoacan near the border with the state of Jalisco. Prosecutors said […]
As the number of illegal border crossings surges to the highest level in two decades, smugglers are making a huge profit. A senior homeland security official recently told Congress that cartels and others involved in related criminal activities can earn up to $6 billion per year.
A retired Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent says President Joe Biden’s open border policy has benefited cartels—causing crime and human smuggling to surge. And a Border Patrol agent says the problem of fake families coming across the southern U.S. border is actually much worse than what the official numbers show.
