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Meet The Warlock Who Predicts Trump Is Gonna Lose The Election
BuzzFeed
Mexico's pre-eminent practitioner of the divinatory arts released his predictions for 2016 on Wednesday, foreseeing that Donald Trump will not become president of the United States and that El Chapo Guzmán
Korean Peninsula
A warlock in Mexico has predicted that Donald Trump will not be the 45th president of America.
newrepublic.com
BuzzFeed’s Nicolás Medina Mora reported that Antonio Vazquez—known across the country as “The Great Warlock of Mexico”—appeared on the popular …
There are so many drug murders in Mexico that overall male life expectancy has dropped
Quartz
Mexico’s brutal war on drugs is showing up in the country’s public-health data. A study from the University of California, Los Angeles, released Jan. 5, shows that between 2005 and 2010—the height of federal
Obama's executive action on guns finds warm welcome in Mexico
csmonitor.com - The Christian Science Monitor
Mexico City President Obama’s executive action on gun control may have reenergized a polarizing debate in the US, but it offered cautious hope in …
The war on drugs is literally killing Mexico
Vox - German Lopez
The global war on drugs is killing Mexico: A new study found that violence from the drug war caused Mexico's life expectancy to stagnate — and, in men's cases, drop — after six decades of increases. The
Battle to stop gun smuggling on US-Mexico border hampered by officials
The Guardian - Reuters in Washington
Watchdog group’s report says lack of cooperation between US and Mexican authorities have hindered efforts to effectively fight trafficking by drug cartels Efforts to combat illegal gunrunning from the
El Chapo
Why Mexico realizes it must extradite Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman
PRI - David Leveille | Christopher Woolf
Mexico has agreed to extradite one of its most notorious druglords to the US. Joaquin Guzman, known as "El Chapo," was head of the Sinaloa Cartel. He was captured after a gunfight on Friday. Or rather,
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz talks about securing the US-Mexico border, but he rarely visits it
The Guardian - Cindy Casares
Ted Cruz’s latest commercial, titled “Invasion”, now running in New Hampshire, claims the mainstream media refuses to cover immigration’s economic ramifications – how it hurts local workers – because elites
U.S.-Mexico border
How the War on Drugs Came Between the U.S. and Mexico
TIME - Aaron Brown / History News Network
History News Network This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. Sean Penn,
In Mexico, Tens Of Thousands Of Illegal Guns Come From The U.S.
NPR - Bill Chappell
From 2009 to 2014, more than 73,000 guns that were seized in Mexico were traced to the U.S., according to a new update on the effort to fight weapons trafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border. The figure,
Watch El Chapo’s Exclusive Interview in Its 17-Minute Entirety
Rolling Stone
On Friday, January 8th, nearly six months after his escape from Mexico’s most secure prison, Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquín Guzmán Loera, a.k.a. El …
Mexico
Mexico’s Corruption Runs Deeper Than El Chapo
AlJazeera - Al Jazeera
It might be too early to celebrate. Mexico still faces some fundamental problems. So far, no high-level official has been charged in connection with El Chapo’s escape from prison last summer; only midlevel
The recapture of El Chapo is much-needed good news for the Mexican government
The Washington Post - By Editorial Board
LAST YEAR was a horrendous one for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, who was battered by corruption scandals and security failures that tarnished what had been a successful reformist record. None more
With Mexico's 'Chapo' back behind bars, Zambada the last capo standing
Reuters
CULIACAN/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico’s public enemy No. 1, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was nabbed last week after a gunfight and high speed getaway bid. But his more discreet partner is flourishing,
This Head-Cam Footage From The Raid On El Chapo's Hideout Is Fucking Intense
Jalopnik - Tyler Rogoway
Dubbed “Operation Black Swan,” the recapturing of Mexican drug kingpin and master escape artist Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was not a subtle affair. …
Inside Colombia’s (New) Cocaine Explosion
The Daily Beast - Jeremy Kryt
TORIBÍO, Colombia — Steep hills rise out of the morning mist like a junky’s dream of paradise: the slopes teeming with lush, illicit vegetation. Palm …
Mexico
Alleged drug lord 'La Barbie' to plead guilty to U.S. charges
CNN - By Gustavo Valdes and Mariano Castillo, CNN
(CNN) — A one-time Texas high school football player who achieved notoriety as an alleged drug kingpin in Mexico is expected to plead guilty to trafficking charges in U.S. District Court in Atlanta. The
These DEA maps show how much of the US drug market 'El Chapo' Guzmán's cartel controls
Business Insider - Christopher Woody
Fugitive Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán was apprehended in Sinaloa state in northwestern Mexico during a military operation on Friday morning, six months after he escaped from a high-security
'El Chapo' Guzmán sent a team of engineers to Germany to devise his elaborate escape tunnel
Business Insider - Amanda Macias
Ahead of Guzmán's recapture, the pair met in an unnamed Mexican jungle nearly three months after the Sinaloa cartel boss slipped through a hole in his cell's shower floor and down a mile-long custom-engineered
Mexican Authorities Want to Speak With Sean Penn About 'El Chapo' Meeting
NBC News - By Gabe Gutierrez
World ALMOLOYA DE JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexican authorities want to speak with U.S. actor Sean Penn and Latin television star Kate del Castillo, a Mexican law enforcement official told NBC News Sunday. The
Mexico
How Mexican officials worked alongside the world's most powerful drug lord
Business Insider - Ioan Grillo, "El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency"
In this excerpt from El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency, journalist Ioan Grillo explains Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera's relationship with federal agents. The Sinaloan
El Chapo's lair: the secluded house at the heart of Mexico's drug war
The Guardian - Rory Carroll in Los Mochis
Joaquín Guzmán was finally cornered in an affluent part of Los Mochis and the scene of the bloody shootout holds portents for the future of the narcotics trade The transformation of the house on the corner
Mexico
These are the features of Mexico's monstrous homemade narco tanks
Business Insider - Jeremy Bender and Amanda Macias
Narco tanks are homemade armored vehicles, also known in Spanish as "monstruo" for their hulking size. They reached peak popularity in 2011 as the Mexican military seized a garage from the Zetas drug-trafficking