Tag: Drug Cartels

Inside the Operation to Take Down Mexico’s Biggest Drug Lord

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Trump’s pressure on Mexico to fight the drug cartels, including threatening American military strikes, have been convincing Mexico to fight harder against the cartels. Whether this produces any long term success is yet to be known.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPI6iu1BlfI

Cartel Boss Taken Out: Mexico In Chaos

Posted on by Lone Candle

A big Mexican Cartel Boss was killed by Mexico with intel help from the US. Afterwards, violence escalated around Mexico. The cartel’s forces are almost as well equipped and trained as the Mexican military. The cartel is attacking the Mexican military around the country and creating chaos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwE4nGCWxjU

Why the DOJ Has Stopped Describing Maduro as the Head of a Literal Drug Cartel

Posted on by Lone Candle

“Cártel de los Soles “is actually a slang term, invented by the Venezuelan media in the 1990s, for officials who are corrupted by drug money.” As Savage explained in November, citing “a range of specialists in Latin American criminal and narcotics issues,” Cártel de los Soles “is not a literal organization” but rather “a figure of speech in Venezuela.”

In 2020, in other words, the Justice Department made a pretty embarrassing mistake, which it has sought to rectify in the revised indictment. Yet the Treasury Department and the State Department are still listing Cártel de los Soles, which federal prosecutors now say refers to “a patronage system” created by a bunch of corrupt government officials, as an FTO, which under federal law means “a foreign organization” that “engages in terrorist activity” threatening “the security of United States nationals or the national security of the United States.””

https://reason.com/2026/01/07/why-the-doj-has-stopped-describing-maduro-as-the-head-of-a-literal-drug-cartel/

Countering the Criminal Drone Threat in the Americas

Posted on by Lone Candle

Mexican cartels are using drones to drop bombs on rival cartels and police, and to intimidate civilians. Criminal organizations in many countries are using drones and have gotten good at using them in advanced ways.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBjCFd3Vosg

Mexican and Colombian drug cartels infiltrate Ukrainian military

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Mexican and Colombian drug cartels infiltrate Ukrainian military

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/mexican-and-colombian-drug-cartels-infiltrate-ukrainian-military/ar-AA1OqzH3?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=68ee6630feb24b818ee326b59f512a9b&ei=13

Donald Trump Is Not a Peace President

Posted on by Lone Candle

“The two Trump administrations have launched as many airstrikes at overseas targets as any other administration. Although childish and superficial, his renaming the Department of Defense as the Department of War doesn’t telegraph a love of peace. Nor does his authorized strike on a Venezuelan boat in the Caribbean. His policies in the Middle East have amounted to little more than giving Israel the greenlight to do as it pleases. Then there were his attacks on nuclear sites in Iran and his constant threats to send troops to root out cartels in Mexico.

Whether or not you agree with these policies, they don’t adhere to any principled non-interventionist philosophy. And that takes us back to Russia and Ukraine. The problem with appeasement is that it emboldens the aggressor rather than secures lasting and just peace. No serious person is calling for American troops in Ukraine, but Trump’s insistence on blaming Ukraine and not pushing Russia for serious concessions has escalated the conflict.”

https://reason.com/2025/09/19/donald-trump-is-not-a-peace-president/