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 […]
Hunter Biden is suing former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his attorney. President Joe Biden’s son is accusing the pair of violating his privacy over data taken from his laptop. The House Oversight Committee has announced witnesses for its first hearing this week in its impeachment inquiry into President Biden. The hearing is set for […]
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 […]
Mexican cartels are officially terrorist organizations in Texas, according to a designation applied by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in a Sept. 21 executive order. “Fentanyl is a clandestine killer. And Texans are victimized by Mexican cartels that produce and import it. So cartels are terrorists. And it’s time that we started treating them that way,” […]
Border patrol agents are preparing for “a possible increase in migrant activity due to an increase in large group activity” as a result of Biden administration immigration policies, an internal Department of Homeland Security document released by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody says. It specifically sites suspending the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), otherwise known as the Remain […]
MEXICO CITY—Nineteen people were killed when gunmen burst into a clandestine rooster fight in western Mexico, prosecutors in the western state of Michoacan said Monday. The attack occurred late Sunday near the town of Zinapecuaro, Michoacan. The dead include 16 men and three women, and a number of people were wounded in the attack. The […]
MEXICO CITY—Mexican authorities on Thursday discovered 10 bodies—nine of them hanging from an overpass—in the central state of Zacatecas, the scene of a battle for territory among drug cartels. The Zacatecas state public safety agency said in a statement the bodies were found in Ciudad Cuauhtemoc, about 340 miles (550 kilometers) north of Mexico City. […]
The sheriff of Goliad County, Texas, is now placing warning signs that say human traffickers and drug traffickers will be hunted down and arrested. He says when the signs are up, cartel activity goes down. An interactive mural has gone up on the Mexico side of the border, telling the stories of migrants who arrived […]
How are Mexican drug cartels partnering with foreign terrorist organizations like Hamas? In this episode of Kash’s Corner, Kash and Jan discuss the national security threats at the southern border, the deteriorating situation in Venezuela, and what’s going on with Kash’s Twitter impersonator. Follow Epoch TV on Facebook and Twitter.
A Chinese national has been sentenced to 14 years behind bars for laundering drug money for Mexican cartels. This case is not an isolated incident, but a growing phenomenon. NTD spoke with an expert about the elaborate partnership between China and drug cartels.
Near the southern border, highly militarized cartels in Mexico vie for control and charge thousands of dollars per migrant. They’ve exploited corruption and essentially become a “parallel government” in border areas, says retired Texas Department of Public Safety Captain Jaeson Jones. “People to them are a commodity,” he says. In this episode, Jones breaks down […]
Recently, border patrol officers found 7 tons of marijuana hidden in what was supposed to be a shipment of limes. And they found over 600 pounds of methamphetamine disguised in a cactus shipment. COVID-19 restrictions on border crossings have made it a lot harder for cartels to smuggle drugs into the United States. So in […]
Two Republican senators are introducing legislation that would place severe sanctions on drug cartels, the latest action taken by lawmakers since cartel gunmen slaughtered nine American citizens in November.
WASHINGTON—The commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said on March 6, that the abnormally high numbers of migrants—most from Central America—paired with broken U.S. immigration laws, has created a “border security and humanitarian crisis” that has been taken advantage of by smugglers and drug cartels. Speaking before the Senate Judiciary Committee, CBP Commissioner […]
