by admin | Dec 1, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] A Mexican drug cartel was so bold in operating frauds that target elderly Americans that the gang’s operators posed as U.S. Treasury Department officials, U.S. authorities said Thursday.The scam was described by the department’s Office of Foreign Assets...
by admin | Sep 5, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] Drug cartels have pinpointed Ecuador’s banana trade as the ideal distribution method for cocaine, even as authorities across Europe catch the shipments – each one worth millions. “It is because of bananas that there are so many ports,” Jose Hidalgo,...
by admin | Aug 25, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] The kind of mass threats and extortion of lime growers in the western Mexico that sparked a civilian vigilante uprising a decade ago have returned, and growers say they can’t get their crops to market.One lime grower who asked to remain anonymous for security...
by admin | Jun 24, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] Mexican authorities are investigating a video appearing to depict cartel members holding female bar hostesses at gunpoint.The men are shown extorting “protection money” from the women, forcing them to lie on the floor as they state their...
by admin | May 3, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] Feuding Mexican cartels briefly blocked roads Tuesday in the border city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas.At one point, gunmen forced middle-school students off a school bus and used the vehicle as a blockade.Roads were quickly cleared and officials...
