By 2007, Mexican drug cartels controlled 90% of the cocaine entering the United States. [36][37] Arrests of key cartel leaders, particularly in the Tijuana and Gulf cartels, have led to increasing drug violence as cartels fight for control of the trafficking routes into the United States. [38][39][40]

3 天之前 · Mexican Navy personnel patrolling near a market on the outskirts of Culiacán last month. ... whether it is fentanyl or any other drug,” Mr. Capella added. ... where there is a turf war underway ...

2025年2月2日 · Trump does not mention the drug epidemic or its victims in the entire decree, but he does refer to “terror” a dozen times and the violation of his national interests. It is a new war, which justifies other types of measures. “It is a double militarization,” says Hernández: one of the border and another against drug trafficking.

2024年8月5日 · Mexican authorities have been waging a deadly battle against drug cartels for nearly two decades, but with limited success. Thousands of Mexicans—including politicians, students, and...

2013年9月2日 · According to figures released on January 11 by the Mexican government, 12,903 people were killed in drug-related violence in the first nine months of 2011. Mexican Federal Police stand guard...

2025年1月20日 · For the better part of the last two decades, numerous Mexican directors have addressed the country's drug violence head-on through their films. 11 features and documentaries about the drug war by ...

2024年10月9日 · Mexico faces a crisis of kidnappings, disappearances, and other criminal violence that has left over thirty-thousand people dead each year since 2018. Gangs and drug cartels largely perpetrate...

The timeline of some of the most relevant events in the Mexican drug war is set out below. Although violence between drug cartels had been occurring for three decades, the Mexican government held a generally passive stance regarding …

The explosion of the drug war in Mexico after the Mérida initiative exacerbated the gang-related violence in the other Central American countries. Of 178 suspected drug flights to and from South America in 2007, 132 were coming and going from the Caribbean.

2019年10月24日 · Mexico's brutal drug war claims thousands of lives every year, as powerful trafficking groups battle it out for territory and influence.