Mexican cartels

Derek Maltz has been appointed acting administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which places him at the helm of the agency amid contentious debates over cannabis rescheduling and President Donald Trump’s executive order designating drug cartels as foreign terrorists. A 28-...

Vice President Kamala Harris visited the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday where she called for tighter asylum restrictions and vowed to make the smuggling of deadly fentanyl a “top priority” as she laid out plans to fix what she called "our broken immigration system.”   In her first...

Michael Brown, a DEA special agent for over 32 years, was involved in the interdiction of multi-tons of marijuana in the U.S. and abroad. He disagrees with President Biden's proposal to reclassify marijuana from its position as a Schedule I drug to a less dangerous Schedule III. Brown argues that...

Criminal networks in Mexico are leveraging popular cryptocurrencies to finance the procurement of raw materials for fentanyl production, according to the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). What Happened: The advisory, released on Thursday, highlights the...

Prominent members of Mexico's drug cartels are using Twitter to recruit new members, threaten rival gangs, post violent images and videos and glorify drug trafficking, according to an Alliance to Counter Crime Online (ACCO) report.  What Happened: Between 2012 and...

When Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called the 70,000+ annual fentanyl overdose deaths of Americans the result of the US’s inherent “social decay” having nothing to do with Mexican cartels trafficking it across the border by...