Mexican criminal organizations have ambitions to transform much of South America’s drug trade through a robust physical presence in Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador. Previously, emissaries of Mexican criminal organizations had…
Following several weeks of gruesome prison riots and a string of hundreds of murders, Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso has called for European and U.S. assistance in the country’s fight against…
Mexico’s latest elections were also its largest in the country’s history, as measured by the number of seats at stake. However, the highly anticipated midterm elections were marred by violence…
Mexico has arrested 12 police officers allegedly involved in a recent massacre of Central American migrants. According to Infobae, a center to center-left Argentine news outlet with excellent regional reporting,…
In November the Mexican Senate voted to approve the legalization of marijuana throughout the country. The lower chamber of Mexico’s legislature is likely to pass the legislation by the end…
The first two accompanying references are from NarcoNews, a non-governmental investigative website that has been looking at the illegal drug phenomenon in Mexico for a number of years. The recent…
Mexican cartels have had to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the accompanying Mexico-based news source Milenio, cartels have turned to the Dark Web and popular applications for the…
According to the accompanying news report, La Silla Rota, a citizen report alerted authorities to suspicious activity in the Paseos de la Fragua neighborhood in León on 22 September 2020.…
At least a slice of Latin American geopolitical observers are on board with the idea that the Communist Chinese government uses the vast Chinese fishing fleet as a geostrategic weapon…
The accompanying pair of articles is from Infobae, a major news website headquartered in Buenos Aires, but with a strong reporter presence in Mexico. The first article, from mid-August, notes…