Tag: Cartels

Current and former leaders of the Alabama-based coal mining company, Drummond, are set to go on trial for allegedly funding right-wing paramilitaries, according to Colombia’s Attorney General’s office. The prosecutor claims there is "abundant evidence" that former company president Augusto Jimenez, who led the company’s Colombian operations from 1990 to...

High-ranking narco lord of Cartel de Sinaloa, Ovidio Guzmán aka "El Raton", was reportedly earlier flown from Culiacán to the Mexican capital of Mexico City in a military Boeing 737 NG aircraft under the protection of artillery vehicles and Mexican special forces operators on the airport's runway, after his...

Last Tuesday, Mexican federal authorities and National Guard forces carried out a raid against cartel members of La Familia Michoacana (LFM) in the municipality of Texcaltitlan, Mexico. According to Mexican media, 11 cartel members were killed and another 10 were detained. The raid in and of itself was nothing...