“Justice department charges 24 defendants and says long investigation reveals links between Mexico’s Sinaloa gang and China… uncovered a partnership between Sinaloa cartel associates and a Chinese criminal syndicate operating in Los Angeles and China to launder drug money”.
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“US accuses Chinese ‘underground bankers’ of laundering $50m in cartel drug money,” The Guardian, 18/06/2024. [Link]
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Emily Green, “Alejandro Arcos, a mayor in Mexico, was killed just one week after he took office,” NPR, 08/10/2024. [Link]
“In Mexico, the mayor of a major city was murdered six days after he was sworn in. The murder on Sunday underscores the security challenges facing the country’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum. Emily Green reports. And a warning – some will find the details in this report distressing.”
“The killing presents a first big test for Claudia Sheinbaum, who was sworn in as Mexico’s president last week.”
Some American reports describe Chilpancingo as a little town. It is “the capital of the violence-plagued state of Guerrero”.
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Carmen Aristegui, Ricardo Ravela and José Luis Revelo (a dialogue), “Carmen Aristegui, Daily Show,” Carmen Aristegui at Youtube (a fragment), 17/12/2024. [Link]
At the prestigious Carmen Aristegui´s radio show, two experts (Ricado Ravelo and José Luis Revelo) explain how tied are criminality and the government officials (governors, mayors, members of the cabinet)
The organized crime was an apendix of government officials, but no longer. Now them both, organized crime and government, have become one.
Is Mexico going to consolidate the “mafioso State”? Or can the government find the way to fight againt the organized crime? How could if fight against itself?
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“Drugmakers including Purdue Pharma paid pharmacy benefic managers not to restrict painkiller prescriptions, a New York Times investigation found.”
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Victoria Dittmar, “How Do Mexico’s Presidential Candidates Plan to Tackle Organized Crime?,” InSight Crime, 30/05/2024. [Link]
“Álvarez Máynez is the only candidate to propose moving from a prohibitionist model to one that regulates drug use. This would include legalizing drug consumption, while decriminalizing possession and taxing the commercialization of these substances.”
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Belén Fernández, “Mexico’s election: A victory for organised crime,” Al Jazeera, 03/06/2024. [Link]
A columnist of Al Jazeera writes she thinks that, given more than two dozen candidates were assesinated before election day in Mexico, and that most of these assesinations are atributed to “crime outfits conducting their own forms of election”, “it is safe to assume that violence, official corruption, and impunity will remain the name of the game. A woman may have won the Mexican election, but the real winner is organised crime – in every sense of the term.”
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T. Christian Miller, “Mexican President Demands Apology From Biden After ProPublica Story on Suspected Cartel Campaign Donation,” ProPublica, 03/02/2024. [Link]
“President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico. He denounced a ProPublica story as part of a media campaign against him by the DEA and the State Department to damage his political party ahead of the presidential election on June 2. Credit: Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto via Getty Images”
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Tim Golden, “Did Drug Traffickers Funnel Millions of Dollars to Mexican President López Obrador’s First Campaign?,” ProPublica, 30/01/2024. [Link]
“Years before Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected as Mexico’s leader in 2018, U.S. drug-enforcement agents uncovered what they believed was substantial evidence that major cocaine traffickers had funneled some $2 million to his first presidential campaign.
According to more than a dozen interviews with U.S. and Mexican officials and government documents reviewed by ProPublica, the money was provided to campaign aides in 2006 in return for a promise that a López Obrador administration would facilitate the traffickers’ criminal operations.”
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Not listed, “The case of the treasurer of Michoacán who resigned for alleged sex trafficking – Latin america News,” Latin American News , 24/11/2024. [Link]
“In a press conference, accompanied by his mother and Mayor Salvador Bastida”, Mr. Raudel Campos Murillo, “former treasurer of the municipality of Tacámbaro, denied having a criminal record in Mexico or having committed a major crime in the United States”, where he was imprissoned when found guilty of transporting Mexican women and children for prostitution. “He also maintained that he has evidence of his integrity and warned that he will sue those who have accused him of crimes he did not commit. “How I arrived, smiling, that’s how I’m going to leave, smiling,” “
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Patrick J. McDonnell, Kate Linthicum and Keegan Hamilton, “Kidnapping, capture, cover-up? Cremated body baffles Mexican officials in ‘El Mayo’ arrest,” Los Angeles Times, 18/08/2024. [Link]
Another version: Mayo´s capture is a cover up
