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Federal prosecutors have charged dozens of men, including 16 people on the run, in an international drug smuggling operation orchestrated by Mexico’s brutal Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). “From the barrios of Jalisco and Michoacán, Mexico the Jalisco New Generation Cartel casts a dark shadow that extends far beyond the borders of a single nation and into the streets and …

William H. Emory shaped the United States like few Americans before or since. The U.S. Army officer fought to expand the physical shape of the nation in the Mexican-American War. Emory later defied local and family sentiment in his home state of Maryland, rejecting offers from the Confederacy. Instead, he fought for the Union in the Civil War. MEET THE …

Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore shows that “migrants go out and do risky jobs at midnight” and as a result they “do not deserve to be treated as they are by certain insensitive, irresponsible politicians in the United States.” López Obrador made the remark as Maryland State Police …

Federal authorities toppled a major gun trafficking operation intended to arm Mexican drug cartels with over 100 “military-grade” firearms, according to court documents. Five men were arrested on March 20 and accused of illegally buying weapons throughout Texas to allegedly smuggle them across the border. “These firearms included FNH SCAR rifles, Barrett .50 caliber rifles, FNH M294S rifles, and M1919 …

Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador denied claims from the U.S. government that the majority of fentanyl is produced in Mexico and defended his country’s traditional family values as a protection against drug abuse in an interview that aired Sunday. “The head of the DEA says cartels are mass-producing fentanyl, and the U.S. State Department has said that most of …

A Mexican drug cartel known for gruesome public slaughtering drained $40 million from Americans, and stole many elderly victims’ life savings without a drop of blood in 2022, according to FBI stats. It’s part of a rapidly evolving timeshare scam run by the Jalisco New Generation cartel (CJNG) that is becoming more intricate, and is now estimated to be stealing …

Investigators in the northern Mexico border state of Nuevo León said Thursday they have found at least ten dead, burned bodies in a vehicle on a roadway near the industrial hub of Monterrey. MEXICAN AUTHORITIES FIND 5 DEAD BODIES LOADED INTO BULLETPROOF SUV State prosecutors said they initially found a body and three skulls inside a burned out vehicle in …

Prosecutors in the violent western Mexican state of Jalisco said Wednesday they found five dead bodies piled in a bulletproof SUV. 3 MEXICAN POLICE OFFICERS KILLED IN HIGHWAY ASSAULT The state prosecutors’ office said someone called an emergency number to report the vehicle Tuesday. Inside, police found the bodies of five men “with visible signs of violence.” The office did …

Residents and schoolkids in Mexico City helped squads of police in a long-winded pursuit of a wolf loose in one of the city’s neighborhoods, authorities said. Citizens and police officers chased the animal on foot and on motorbikes in the north-side neighborhood, before the medium-sized wolf finally was cornered “with the help of neighbors,” the city police department said late …

Mexico’s president on Tuesday praised Mexican revolutionary Francisco “Pancho” Villa for his 1916 attack on Columbus, New Mexico, a raid that killed 18 Americans, mostly civilians. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called the attack “daring” and said “we should thank” Villa for it. “We should thank Villa for, among other things, the daring feat of having attacked Columbus, New Mexico, …