Mexico – Failed State – Blazingcatfur

‘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

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

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!” 🇺🇸

pic.twitter.com/dFB877n99h

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 8, 2026

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

Why the Mexican cartels may soon turn to Canada to escape chaos after killing of Jalisco boss El Mencho

Canadians may need to brace themselves for violent Mexican drug cartels moving their operations north to escape the war on drugs in Mexico.

“There is a good, strong possibility of that,” former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Charles Noonan said in an interview.

“Manufacturing in Canada makes sense,” Noonan said. “In the next six months to a year, you could see a surge in the drug labs.”

by Blazingcatfur•March 4, 2026March 3, 2026•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

Civilians pay the price after army kills Mexican cartel boss

El Mencho’s death has sparked mass violence in Guadalajara, the capital of Jalisco state, but it is residents who have been the victims of the war on gangs

Arturo García was just finishing breakfast with his girlfriend last Sunday when he heard the screams. Armed men, their faces covered, were running through the market, spraying the stalls with petrol. They stopped cars and poured petrol over the people inside. Then they set everything alight.

“I could see people on fire,” García told me, one morning in Guadalajara last week. “They were screaming for help.”

by Blazingcatfur•March 1, 2026February 28, 2026•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

‘Fear is everywhere’: The Mexican city turned into war zone by drug cartel feud

“The fear is everywhere and the fear is constant,” said paramedic Héctor Torres, 53, from the front seat of the ambulance in Culiacán.

We had just come from the scene of a shooting inside a garage in the city centre.

The owner was lying dead in his office, blood spreading across the white tiled floor. As Héctor and the other paramedic, Julio César Vega, 28, entered the premises, a woman ran in wailing.

After the elimination of El Mencho by Mexican Army

Culiacán, Sinaloa (Mexico) was rocked by a violent clash between rival cartels.

"La Mayiza – Chapo Isidro, and "La Chapiza – CJNG."

This intense confrontation left three cartel members de!d pic.twitter.com/DxmWTMHlO9

— Blue Print🐾 👣 ™ (@haji_musteey) February 25, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•February 26, 2026February 25, 2026•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

‘Burned and destroyed’: Locals and tourists describe Mexico unrest

Locals and tourists in Mexico have described the “heartbreaking” unrest after one of the most powerful and feared cartels in the country unleashed a wave of violence across several states.

It comes after Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho”, Mexico’s most wanted man and leader of the Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) drug cartel, was killed during a security operation to arrest him on Sunday.

Footage recorded by locals and tourists showed burnt vehicles and plumes of smoke rising above several towns and cities, including the beach resort of Puerto Vallarta.

Footage out of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico allegedly shows Canadians looting an Oxxo convenience store.

When one is confronted with his alleged theft, he responds by accusing the man of being American.

Do you think this behaviour is reflective of the "elbows up" ethos? pic.twitter.com/7S7Zc9eenr

— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) February 24, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•February 24, 2026February 23, 2026•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

CJNG Decapitation Strike Mirrors 2019 Operation Targeting El Chapo’s Son — 25 dead as Mexico pays blood price for not blinking

JALISCO – On the morning of October 17, 2019, the Mexican state tried to arrest a Sinaloa Cartel boss and lost. Soldiers cornered Ovidio Guzmán — son of El Chapo — in the city of Culiacán, cradle of Mexico’s most powerful cartel. Within hours, thousands of gunmen in military-grade body armour and AK-47s flooded the streets. Buses and cars were seized and torched to block every route in and out. Family members of soldiers were taken hostage in their own homes. Barrett .50-calibre rifles were trained on government buildings. The Mexican Army, facing a city on fire, released Ovidio and retreated. President López Obrador called it a humanitarian decision. His critics said the cartel had shown it could bring the Mexican state to its knees.

VACATION TO VIOLENCE: What was meant to be a dream getaway in Puerto Vallarta is now a nightmare for hundreds of tourists.

After Mexico reportedly took out a major cartel leader, the city sees unprecedented violence — burning cars, ransacked stores, and blocked exits.

Witnesses… pic.twitter.com/U8eoKmuuYZ

— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 23, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•February 24, 2026February 23, 2026•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

Violence erupts in Mexico after drug lord El Mencho killed

A wave of violence has broken out in Mexico after the country’s most wanted drug baron was killed in an operation seeking his arrest.

Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho”, was the leader of the feared Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) drug cartel and died after being seriously injured in clashes between his supporters and the army on Sunday.

Four CJNG members were killed during the operation in the town of Tapalpa, in the central-western Jalisco state, and three army personnel were also injured, the Mexican defence ministry said.

This is funny.

💥Canadian Mainstream Media vs. Independent Media.

This is how vital platforms like "X" and independent media are, because without them, we wouldn't know what is really happening in Mexico.

Follow: @DanDicksPFT pic.twitter.com/Npr6DHeJkJ

— Wiretap Media (@WiretapMediaCa) February 23, 2026

OMG Not The COSTCO!

BREAKING NEWS: Things in Mexico are escalating as the cartel is attacking airports, blocking roads, and even set a Costco on fire after the government killed “El Mencho” the head of the biggest cartel.

If you are in Jalisco or Puerto Vallarta it is important to shelter in place. pic.twitter.com/ikOb0g5vgv

— Power to the People ☭🕊 (@ProudSocialist) February 22, 2026

🚨⚡️ BREAKING: Mexico’s most wanted drug lord killed — violent unrest erupts nationwide

Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as El Mencho, was the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and widely regarded as one of Mexico’s most ruthless criminal figures.

His organization… pic.twitter.com/lBDPId9Ce7

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) February 22, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•February 23, 2026February 23, 2026•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

Disappearances in Mexico surge by 200% over 10 years

More than 130,000 people considered missing or disappeared in Mexico as drug cartels expand

It was a bright morning in August 2022 when Ángel Montenegro was taken. A 31-year-old construction worker, Montenegro had been out all night drinking with some work buddies in the city of Cuautla and was waiting for a bus back to nearby Cuernavaca where lived.

At about 10am, a white van pulled up: several men jumped out and dragged Montenegro and a co-worker inside before speeding off. Montenegro’s co-worker was released a few hundred meters down the street, but Montenegro was driven away.

As soon as she heard that her son had been taken, Montenegro’s mother, Patricia García, raced to Cuautla along with his wife, brother and some neighbors. Arriving at the bus stop, all they found were Montenegro’s cap and one of his tennis shoes.

by Blazingcatfur•February 17, 2026February 16, 2026•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

Trump administration says El Paso airspace closure was tied to Mexican cartel drones

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration reopened the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas on Wednesday morning, just hours after it announced a 10-day closure that would have grounded all flights to and from the airport.

The Federal Aviation Administration said in a social media post that it has lifted the temporary closure of the airspace over El Paso, saying there was no threat to commercial aviation and that all flights will resume.

by Blazingcatfur•February 11, 2026February 11, 2026•0•Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State, USA