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A former mexican drug cartel kingpin who dismembered a sixyearold girl with an axe in front of her parents has been sentenced to seven consecutive life terms in. From an experienced cartel analyst and special agent, this is a powerful and very comprehensive look into the broad scope of mexican drug violence and its impact on the security of our nation. Juan francisco saenztamez was arrested by federal agents in 2014. The mexican drug war is the mexican theater of the global war on drugs, as led by the u. Having followed mexicos cartels for years, security expert sylvia longmire takes us deep into the heart of their world to witness a dangerous underground where. How dea agents took down mexicos most vicious drug cartel and how this helped give rise to the criminal empire of chapo guzman. The coming invasion of mexicos drug wars is a nonfiction book about the mexican drug war written by sylvia longmire, an independent consultant, freelance writer, and former air force captain. Jul 29, 2017 how mexican cartels prey on chicagos chaos cartel watch as mexicos cartels manage to get more and more heroin into the u. The cartel, by don winslow, continues a drug saga the.
Reviewed in the united states on february 23, 2014. Under his leadership, the cartel garnered a fierce reputation for. Mexicos agony is ritually explained as a turf war between drug cartels. History always repeats, and there is always someone not remembering the last mistake.
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Mexican cartel leader who dismembered sixyearold girl. Longtime sinaloa cartel boss guzman was arrested in 2014, years after he first escaped from mexicos maximum security. The border area between new mexico and mexico is sparsely populated and has limited natural or man made barriers to illegal crossing. A drug cartel fueled book list for all narcos lovers. Ioan grillo confessions of a mexican narcofoot soldier. In 2014 it was only present in five municipalities of the state of mexico, whereas today they are in 23 and in five of the delegations of the city of mexico. Mexicos murderous alliance of state, the army and the drug cartels. This is practically a duplicate concept to mariel which castro thought would help his own precarious position. Due to infighting, arrests and the deaths of many top leaders, the organization is a shell of what it was in the 1990s and early 2000s, when it was considered. The gulf cartel controls the drug trade along the gulf of mexico and dominates the movement of drugs into this country primarily through texas, said michele m.
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