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MEAT WITH  NO FEET!!!!

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Marijuana legalization in the US making Mexican drug gangs poorer

Marijuana legalization in the US making Mexican drug gangs poorer

❝We’re still not sure of the full impact of marijuana legalization, in terms of pot use and abuse, in the states that have legalized. But a report from Deborah Bonello for the Los Angeles Times shows one way that legalization for recreational and medical purposes is working: The loosening of marijuana laws across much of the United States has increased competition from growers north of the…

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Jail time needed for Citigroup's Mexican drug money-laundering

Jail time needed for Citigroup’s Mexican drug money-laundering

Banamex branch in San Diego, now closed — CoStar Group ❝When Antonio Peña Arguelles opened an account in 2005 at Citigroup’s Banamex USA, the know-your-customer documents said he had a small business breeding cattle and white-tailed deer, ranch-raised for their stately antlers. About $50 a month would come into the account, according to the documents.❞ ❝A week later, Peña Arguelles wired in $7.09…

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Life inside our southern neighbor

Life inside our southern neighbor

Click to enlarge Update to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s assessment of the areas of dominant control for the major drug trafficking organizations operating in Mexico based on a comprehensive review of current DEA reporting, input from DEA offices in Mexico and open source information… Ain’t nothing like a long winter vacation in the sun, eh?

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Everything you hear about the Mexican Drug War is crap!

Everything you hear about the Mexican Drug War is crap!

An interview with Mexican investigative journalist Anabel Hernández What are the biggest misconceptions that you see in the media about the drug war? When I started to work on that book about Chapo Guzmán back in 2005, I had the same misconceptions that most of the media and journalists had in Mexico, the U.S. and the rest of the world. I had swallowed the story that Chapo Guzmán was just a…

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Keeping up with Mexican drug cartels -- New Generation

Keeping up with Mexican drug cartels — New Generation

Click to enlarge — photos from Getty, EPA, etc. A shootout between members of a powerful drug cartel and Mexican security forces in the western state of Michoacan left at least 40 people dead Friday, according to Mexican officials. The violence unfolded in the morning near the town of Tanhuato, along Michoacan’s border with the state of Jalisco, a troubled region where two drug cartels have waged…

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Texas county refuses to take on border checkpoint drug cases from the Feds

Texas county refuses to take on border checkpoint drug cases from the Feds

Sierra Blanca county in Texas with two U.S. Border Patrol highway checkpoints is refusing to prosecute drug cases previously sent to it from those checkpoints.

The county—and all four states bordering Mexico—wants funding from Washington, D.C. to handle cases that federal prosecutors decide to send to state courts…

A program that reimbursed California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas for…

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UN slams Mexico over citizens who have "disappeared"

UN slams Mexico over citizens who have “disappeared”

“I didn’t notice anyone missing. Did you?”

A U.N. committee accused Mexico of failing to adequately prosecute and convict individuals responsible for enforced disappearances.

The United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances has published its concluding observations…about Mexico’s efforts to combat enforced disappearances at the request of the relatives of the 43 disappeared Ayotzinapa…

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