The dissolution of the Gulf Cartel – Lessons amidst the bloodshed (November 19, 2011)

As the prohibition laws in the United States (US) came to a close on December 5, 1933, criminal organizations across the World wondered to themselves how they could replace their lost profits. Revenues from the illegal sale of liquor brought in billions of dollars by today’s currency standards, formalizing criminal groups such as the American …

Confronting the horrors of presidential policy, November 23, 2012: The Mexican presidential election, the disintegration of Los Zetas, and their relationship to the scourge of human trafficking

The death of Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano on October 7, 2012, apparently changed everything. Lazcano, (alias Z – 3), was one of the founding members of the infamous Los Zetas drug cartel, and he had led the Zetas for years through some of the most violent episodes in the recent struggles between Mexico’s supposedly omnipotent cartels. …