organized crime
March 12, 2021 | Grace Coulter
Cartel Expert: Cartels Are Overwhelmed
Reuters reports that the Mexican president is worried President Joe Biden’s asylum polices are encouraging organized crime and boosting human trafficking. A cartel expert says the same thing. In fact, he says the cartels are smuggling so many migrants, they need new methods of tracking them.
January 24, 2021 | The Associated Press
19 Burned Bodies Found Near Mexico-US Border Town
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico—Mexican authorities say they have found 19 shot and burned bodies near a town across the Rio Grande from Texas in an area that has seen violent territorial disputes between organized crime groups in recent years. The Tamaulipas state prosecutor’s office said late Saturday that the bodies were discovered along a dirt road […]
January 24, 2018 | Charlotte Cuthbertson
Sessions: Trump Has Delivered on Promise to End ‘American Carnage’
WASHINGTON—Attorney General Jeff Sessions said violent crime is down, while prosecutions and morale have increased, under the Trump administration. Sessions recalled President Donald Trump’s call to action in his inauguration address: “This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.” In an op-ed published in USA Today on Jan. 23, Sessions said Trump has […]
July 23, 2017 | Mimi Nguyen Ly
Mexican former state governor to be tried for organized crime
MEXICO CITY—A former state governor from Mexico’s ruling party will stand trial for engaging in organized crime and handling funds of illicit origin after a judge reviewing evidence approved the case, the attorney general’s office said on Saturday. Javier Duarte, who until 2016 governed the Gulf coast state of Veracruz for President Enrique Pena Nieto’s […]