El Chapo Blog Posts

According to Mexican journalist Jesus Esquivel, the U.S. government offered to capture Sinaloa Cartel leader, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in a “simple, fast and surgical” operation. “The U.S. intelligence services have loc...

The U.S. Treasury Department says it is placing financial sanctions on another wife of Joaquin Guzman, who is Mexico’s most wanted man. The department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control says in a statement Thursday that it has designated Griselda...

A Mexican Supreme Court official was arrested and arraigned in federal court for allegedly having links to a drug cartel, said authorities. Juan Carlos de la Barrera Vite was arrested July 29 in the Pacific port city of Acapulco and arraigned Aug 7 b...

Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán the man labeled the world’s most powerful drug trafficker is not among the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. Neither is his rival, Heriberto Lazcano, though he is said to run one of the most vicious...

SOME 200 miles east of Mexico City on the Gulf coast lies Veracruz, the country’s main port. Each year, millions of tonnes of cargo pass through its harbours, contributing to an economy which is ranked 14th in the world, just behind Australia. The...

MEXICO CITY — The U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions Tuesday against two sons of Sinaloa cartel drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. The U.S. Embassy in Mexico said the Treasury Department designated Ivan Archivaldo Guzman Salazar and...

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities say 10 gunmen and two soldiers have been killed during a battle in a western Mexican state plagued by drug trafficking violence. Sinaloa state police spokesman Edmundo Apodaca says the shootout Wednesday morning in...

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities say 10 gunmen and two soldiers have been killed during a battle in a western Mexican state plagued by drug trafficking violence. Sinaloa state police spokesman Edmundo Apodaca says the shootout Wednesday morning in...

MCALLEN, Texas (Reuters) – U.S. authorities accused two dozen top bosses of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, including leader Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, of murder, money laundering and racketeering while shipping tons of illicit drugs into the...

CHICAGO — There’s a status hearing for a Mexican cartel lieutenant awaiting his October trial on drug-trafficking charges. Vicente Zambada’s hearing in Chicago on Wednesday is the first since a judge rejected his dramatic claim that...

An ultralight aircraft, weapons and drugs allegedly belonging to the cartel drug trafficker Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman were found in an underground hideout in the city of Mexicali (Northwest) on the border with the United States. The aircr...