10/03/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
How to Reach New Criminal-Political Equilibrium in Mexico's Post-'Chapo' Vacuum
With Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman now back in a cage many analysts and ordinary Mexicans alike fret about the expected knock-on effects.
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21/01/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico's Vigilantes: A Defining Question for Peņa Nieto
The violent state of Michoacan continues to be the largest stone in President Enrique Peņa Nieto's shoe as he attempts to drag Mexico's image as a blood-filled crime cauldron towards that of a peaceful, progressive industrial power.
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28/12/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico 2013 Target List: Many Zetas, Little Impact
The command structure of the brutal Zetas gang appears to have suffered existential blows under President Enrique Peņa Nieto, according to a list of 69 crime bosses either captured or killed in the past year. But the overall criminal picture feels eerily similar.
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21/11/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico Church Hierarchy Takes Tepid Stance Amidst Violence
Roman Catholic prelates in Michoacan state at last have drawn a line against local gangsters, and the officials nurturing them, further entangling what already was one of Mexico's more intractable knots of violence. But most of the Church hierarchy still seems reluctant to take a strong stand.
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21/10/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Death and Corruption: Organized Crime and Local Govt in Mexico
The gunmen caught up with the police chief of the small town of Puruandiro as he drove before dawn near the beautiful lake that dominates the area. Attacking with assault rifles and 9 mm pistols the gangsters, likely either from the locally dominant Knights Templar or from one of their rivals, shot more than 50 rounds into the chief and his car.
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02/09/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Were the 'Tepito 12' Victims of Organized Crime in Mexico City?
The identification of the bodies of 12 young people abducted three months ago from a bar just a few blocks from police headquarters in Mexico City has set many in the capital on edge, who fear the hyper-gangland violence prevalent elsewhere now has arrived in this perceived oasis of peace.
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10/08/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Drug War - Drug gang violence: Very bad things are happening in Honduras
Escalating drug wars and military raids of prison push Honduras closer to the edge. Migrants say they must leave to save their lives.
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08/07/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mudslinging, Political Violence Heralds Mexico Local Elections
Violence and political mudslinging have been spiking in tandem since the spring throughout the gangster-ridden parts of Mexico that will hold state and local elections on July 7.
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23/06/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico Mayors Face Tough Decisions in Embattled Pacific Region
Public servants of every stripe across Mexico's gang plagued regions face an existential choice.
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02/06/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico's Peņa Nieto Plan Glosses Over Reality
Though a casual observer might view President Enrique Peņa Nieto's strategy for combating gangsters as much the same as his predecessor's -- and his five-year development plan has some similarities to the previous administration's -- Mexico's leader and his aides insist that things are much changed and far more hopeful these days, despite signs to the contrary.
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26/05/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Militarization of Mexico, Again
Struggling to contain rapidly growing self-defense militias that threaten armed clashes with powerful criminal gangs, Mexico's federal government has brokered the hiring of an army special forces commander as public security czar in the central state of Michoacan.
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08/04/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Honeymoon Over for Mexico's President Peņa Nieto
Since taking office four months ago, Mexico's President Enrique Peņa Nieto and his subordinates have been been working overtime to forge a more hopeful, less blood-tinged conversation about their country. But that conversation may be coming to an end.
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22/02/2013 | Transparencia
Pemex Blast Opens Questions about Mexico Govt Transparency
Nearly three weeks after an explosion that killed 37 people and injured 100 more in the headquarters of Mexico's national oil company, Pemex, the public is far from learning exactly what was behind the tragedy. The government's opaque approach conjures up ghosts of other unexplained events and concerns about what may lie ahead.
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09/02/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Vigilantes Fight Criminal Onslaught in Acapulco, Mexico
For the past month community-deputized men -- most in ski masks, armed with shotguns and machetes -- have been manning checkpoints and patrolling villages in an effort to break the criminal siege in the mountains near Acapulco, Mexico.
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25/01/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Durango Becoming Ground Zero for Zetas-Sinaloa Cartel Battle
In a videotaped interrogation (see below) posted on various blogs, two employees of the Durango prosecutor's office accused the governor and his secretary of public safety of "selling" criminal control of the embattled northern state to the Sinaloa Cartel. The accusations presage the tough fight between the Zetas and Sinaloa in Durango.
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07/10/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico's Calderon urges consolidation of police forces
President Felipe Calderon proposed to Mexico's Congress on Wednesday that the country's nearly 2,000 municipal police forces be consolidated with 32 state agencies that he believes will be better equipped to take on the country's rampaging gangsters.
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