Forbes: "Billionaire Mexican drug cartel king Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera’s time as a free man appears to be short-lived: Mexican police acknowledged Sunday that they nearly caught him in February.
Guzman, the Sinaloa drug cartel leader who controls an estimated 25% of the illegal drug trade from Mexico to the U.S., has reportedly been hiding out in a seaside mansion in Los Cabos. Mexican police barely missed capturing him three weeks ago, Mexico’s assistant attorney general in charge of organized crime investigations, Jose Cuitlahuac Salinas, told the Associated Press on Sunday." read more
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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