Mexican drug cartels – Blazingcatfur

How Mexican drug cartels have outsourced meth labs to Nigeria

The Nigerian judge was formally dressed, the lawyers maintained legal decorum and protocol was followed – but this hearing was not in the comfortable confines of a Lagos courtroom, it was inside an alleged illicit drug laboratory in the thick of a dense forest.

Three Mexicans and seven Nigerians were paraded in handcuffs, as Justice Musa Kakaki inspected the chemicals and equipment they were accused of using to produce the harmful illegal synthetic drug, methamphetamine, commonly known as meth, crystal meth or, locally, ice.

by Blazingcatfur•July 29, 2026July 29, 2026•0•Crime, Mexican drug cartels, Nigeria

Drone’s Eye View: The Spread of the Latest Ukrainian Tech to the Mexican Cartels Needs to Be Taken Seriously

An unjammable fiber-optic kamikaze drone—a drone you fly directly into a target to kill it—was recently discovered in a cartel compound, 500 miles from the U.S. border. You probably won’t have heard about this, but it’s big news. Or it should be.

It’s yet another indication of how closely drug gangs are coming to resemble state or quasi-state actors, not just in the territories they control and administer but also in the threat they pose to real states, including the United States. The classic definition of the state, derived from sociologist Max Weber, is an entity that monopolizes violence within a set of given borders. And while the cartels have been using military-grade equipment like .50-caliber machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades for some time, their determined attempts to acquire the latest drone capabilities reveal a greater ambition: to achieve technological and tactical parity with second- and maybe even first-tier nations.

by Blazingcatfur•July 15, 2026July 15, 2026•0•"Ukraine - Russia", Mexican drug cartels, USA

‘Like good Mexicans, we laugh’: the cartoonist drawing humour from Sinaloa’s brutal drug cartels

Spare a thought for the mid-level narco.

What to do with all the bodies? Where to find a corrupt cop worth his salt? And how to catch the eye of that former beauty queen?

Such are the struggles of El Ñacas and El Tacuachi, the two sicarios – cartel gunmen – who are the stars of a cartoon that has been satirising the underworld of Mexico’s Sinaloa state for two decades, even as the reality has darkened by the day.

A snapshot of life in a Narco State.

We in Canada should not be smug in judging our “free trade” partner.

by Blazingcatfur•July 2, 2026July 2, 2026•0•"Transnational Crime", Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

Trump’s Blowing Up Narcos. Biden Ignored Them — Now We’re Learning Just How Bad It Was.

A few days ago, I wrote an article for our VIPs, updating you on some of the various efforts the Donald Trump administration and our South and Central American allies are taking to pursue the cartels and narco-terrorists who flood our region with drugs and violence. You can check it out here: Boats Down, Tons Seized: Let’s Check In On the Region’s Anti-Narco Activity.

A lot of these stories don’t make MSM headlines, but they’re happening nearly weekly (I already have more to share in the days ahead). We are literally blowing up or intercepting narco-boats filled with drugs, taking down major drug trafficking players on land, and stopping the flow of substances, like fentanyl, into our country.

by Blazingcatfur•June 26, 2026June 26, 2026•0•Mexican drug cartels, USA

Trump’s homeland security chief says pressure on Mexican cartels pushing crime to Canadian border

The U.S. crackdown on drug trafficking on the border with Mexico has triggered an increase in criminal activity coming across the border from Canada, according to Markwayne Mullin, the U.S. secretary of homeland security.

Speaking to an audience in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday alongside Canada’s Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree, Mullin said law enforcement officials are seeing an increase in fentanyl trafficking from Canada, something he attributed to U.S. efforts against Mexican cartels at the southern border.

by Blazingcatfur•June 17, 2026June 17, 2026•0•"Transnational Crime", Canada, Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, USA

Fentanyl ingredients entering Canada via Vancouver en route to cartel-run drug labs, U.S. DEA boss says

Chemicals used to make fentanyl are streaming into the Port of Vancouver on their way to drug labs run by Mexican cartels on Canadian soil, the head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration told senators in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.

DEA administrator Terrance Cole said U.S. law enforcement officials are “very conscious” of fentanyl being manufactured in Canada for export across the border and there have been “significant seizures” of the drug in Canada over the past two months.

by Blazingcatfur•May 13, 2026May 13, 2026•0•"Canada - China's 24th Province", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Mexican drug cartels, Mexico

CIA denies reports of secret cartel war in Mexico

The Central Intelligence Agency vehemently denied reports of its participation in deadly operations against drug cartels in Mexico.

On Tuesday, CNN published a report alleging that the CIA had vastly expanded its operations in Mexico against drug cartels, including getting directly involved in assassinations of cartel figures. The most notable was its alleged facilitation of a car bombing on a busy Mexican highway that killed Francisco “El Payin” Beltran on March 28. CIA spokeswoman Liz Lyons denied the report in strong terms, accusing the outlet of endangering American lives.

by Blazingcatfur•May 13, 2026May 13, 2026•0•CIA, Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, USA

US officials gravely concerned cartels will take fight at border to the skies

PHOENIX — Officials at the Departments of Homeland Security and War are gravely concerned about the security of the nation’s skies along the land border and have admitted that the airspace is incredibly easy to penetrate from Canada and Mexico.

Recent and continuing major improvements in infrastructure at the U.S.-Mexico border have already begun to push terrorist organizations and cartels into the air to get around ground infrastructure, such as walls, river barriers, and sensors, as they smuggle money and guns into Mexico and drugs into the United States, according to government officials leading efforts to counter unfriendly drones.

by Blazingcatfur•May 8, 2026May 8, 2026•0•Mexican drug cartels, USA

US charges Mexican state governor with drug trafficking

The United States Justice Department has charged the governor of Mexico’s Sinaloa state and nine other officials for their alleged involvement with the Sinaloa Cartel, it announced on Wednesday.

The Justice Department claimed that Ruben Rocha Moya and others conspired with leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel to import massive quantities of narcotics into the US in exchange for political support and bribes.

The nine others include current and former Mexican officials, some of whom have been accused of having participated in the cartel’s campaign of violence.

by Blazingcatfur•April 30, 2026April 30, 2026•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State, USA

Dozens of Mexican mafia members arrested in California crackdown

More than two dozen members and associates of the Mexican mafia were arrested during an early morning crackdown in southern California, federal authorities said on Thursday.

The FBI and other federal and local agencies executed search and arrest warrants at locations mostly in Orange county, south of Los Angeles, according to the US attorney’s office.

A total of 43 people have been indicted on charges including murder, kidnapping, extortion, running an illegal gambling operation and drug trafficking, prosecutors said.

by Blazingcatfur•April 24, 2026April 24, 2026•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State, USA

Two CIA officers die in Mexico accident after counternarcotics operation

Two U.S. embassy officials who died in an automobile accident in northern Mexico as they returned from the scene of a counternarcotic operation worked for the Central Intelligence Agency as part of a significantly expanded role in battling narcotics trafficking in the Western Hemisphere, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The deadly car crash Sunday in the state of Chihuahua also took the lives of two Mexican officials and prompted Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to say she would investigate whether the operation ran afoul of the country’s national security laws.

The CIA declined to comment.

by Blazingcatfur•April 21, 2026April 21, 2026•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State, USA

A Russian-Linked Arms Trafficker and a Network of Corrupt African Officials Tried to Supply a Mexican Cartel With Anti-Aircraft Weapons

CJNG — already implicated in Iranian-directed death threats against a Canadian politician — was the intended recipient of a $58 million arsenal that included surface-to-air missiles, DOJ alleges.

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors in Virginia have charged four men — a Bulgarian arms trafficker with ties to the notorious Russian weapons dealer Viktor Bout, and several African co-conspirators with connections to the governments of Uganda and Tanzania — with conspiring to supply the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación with a $58 million military arsenal that included rocket launchers, surface-to-air missiles, anti-aircraft drones, and high-powered explosives the brokers boasted could bring down helicopters.

by Blazingcatfur•March 24, 2026March 23, 2026•0•"China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State, USA

El Mencho’s last stand

No one seems to know exactly how El Mencho was killed. We are told the feared leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel was captured by the Mexican army during a firefight in late February, and subsequently died of his wounds. Beyond that, there is very little information. Why are the Mexican and US governments being so secretive about his death?

El Mencho – real name Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes – was 59 when he died. He was Mexico’s most-wanted man; US authorities had offered a $15 million reward for information leading to his arrest. I decided I had to go to Jalisco, where El Mencho made his last stand, to look for answers. Most of Mexico’s airspace had been closed after his death, such was the level of unrest. Cars and buses were torched, gunmen set up roadblocks on Mexico’s highways and more than 70 people were killed in widespread retaliatory fighting. Three days after his death, I disembarked at Guadalajara International Airport on one of the first flights into the region.

by Blazingcatfur•March 22, 2026March 22, 2026•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

From Montreal Labs to Tampa Streets: How a Canadian Synthetic Opioid Network Tied Chinese Precursor Suppliers to Mexican Cartel-Linked Indo-Canadian Gangs

TAMPA/MONTREAL — Almost two years after Canadian federal police raided two synthetic opioid labs in Quebec and seized millions of deadly pills, a 49-year-old Montreal-area man has been indicted on charges of importing a narcotic three times more lethal than fentanyl into the United States — a case that connects, through prior federal filings, to a Chinese fentanyl precursor supplier and Mexican cartel-linked trafficking network operating out of Vancouver.

by Blazingcatfur•March 19, 2026March 18, 2026•0•"Canada - China's 24th Province", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Mexican drug cartels

Cartels fear US retaliation as Trump-era pressure reshapes strategy: ‘They fear the United States’

MEXICO CITY: Mexican drug cartels are increasingly calculated in their targeting decisions, often avoiding deliberately attacking American tourists and citizens out of concern it could prompt intensified U.S. retaliation, according to experts.

Following last month’s killing of Ruben “Nemesio” Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” the powerful leader of the Mexican Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt joined “Fox & Friends” and had a warning for the drug gangs: “The Mexican drug cartels know not to lay a finger on a single American, or they will pay severe consequences under this president.”

🚨 BOOM! I love that President Trump said this straight to Latin American heads of state 🔥

“We'll put a missile through the cartel boss's LIVING room if you want!” 🇺🇸

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— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 8, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•March 9, 2026March 8, 2026•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State, USA