Browsing: cartels

I've been watching a lot of Al Jazeera lately – now that the 24-hour live stream is available on the net – and happened to catch this report about a new video game based on Mexican cartel violence and the Drug War.

Who have been the main beneficiaries of the United Nations' 50-year international treaty to prohibit certain drugs? These thank-you videos to the UN from (fake) organized criminals give us a few illustrations of the rich and powerful monsters created by prohibition.

The head of a company that provides security for American citizens traveling in Mexico says the powerful drug cartels are branching out into the $40-billion-a-year sex trafficking industry.

Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, showed a fake copy of its Office 2007 software found for sale on the streets of Mexico and “brazenly” stamped with the rectangular “FMM” logo of the Familia drug cartel to demonstrate the link between counterfeiting and organized crime.

The number of civilians killed in the conflict pitting Mexico’s powerful drug cartels against each other and the security forces soared by 172 percent in the last 12 months, capital daily Reforma said Monday, citing official figures.
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