Mexico

September 26, 2022, Mexico City, Mexico: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador during the daily morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City. on September 26, 2022 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photo by Luis Barron/Eyepix Group/Sipa USA).No Use Germany.

Why is Mexico’s security strategy failing?

Vanda Felbab-Brown and Nathaniel Parish Flannery

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

A customs officer presents part of what has become the largest single seizure of cocaine in Bavaria to date. Representatives of the Joint Narcotics Investigation Group (JIT) Northern Bavaria, the Customs Investigation Office in Munich, the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office and the Public Prosecutor's Office in Aschaffenburg were involved in the operation.

The foreign policies of the Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG – Part V: Europe’s supercoke and on-the-horizon issues and the Middle East

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Friday, September 16, 2022

Opportunities to strengthen and expand supply chains in North America

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

Buenos Aires, Argentina.- In the photos taken on April 20, 2022, authorities give information to the press about the operation where a shipment of cocaine was intercepted. An organization that tried to traffic 71 kilos of cocaine hidden among export merchandise from Argentina to the Spanish city of Barcelona was disrupted during the last hours in a joint operation between the Federal Police (PFA) and the Spanish Civil Guard, according to police sources.

The foreign policies of the Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG — Part IV: Europe’s cocaine and meth markets

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Friday, September 2, 2022

Members of the Mexican army stand guard at the crime scene where unknown assailants left the bodies of dead people on the outskirts of the city, according to local media, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico August 13, 2022. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

The power of Mexican cartels: In Mexico and abroad

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Thursday, August 25, 2022

A Spanish policeman watches a vessel arrive in the port of Santa Cruzde Tenerife in the Canary Islands August 30, 2001 during aninternational police operation involving Spain, the U.S. and Canada.Fourteen people were arrested and two boats seized off the coast ofFrench Guiana carrying about five tonnes of cocaine. Spain is a majorEuropean entry point for drugs and contraband coming from North Africaand Latin America. REUTERS/Alex RosaDB

The foreign policies of the Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG – Part III: Africa

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Sunday, August 21, 2022

A customs officer stands beside a total of 649 kg (1,430 pounds) of cocaine during a news conference held by the Customs and Excise Department in Hong Kong July 6, 2012. Customs officers seized a record amount of cocaine with a street value of HK$760 million ($98 million), a government radio reported on Friday. The drugs were found in a container coming from Ecuador at the Kwai Chung Container Terminals and three men have been arrested so far. REUTERS/Bobby Yip (CHINA - Tags: CRIME LAW DRUGS SOCIETY)

The foreign policies of the Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG – Part II: The Asia-Pacific

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Friday, August 5, 2022

Soldiers patrol at a poppy plantation used to make heroin during an operation of destruction at Sierra de Culiacan in state of Sinaloa, December 8, 2011. High above Mexico's drug-producing heartland, Mexican soldiers are combing the fertile fields of the northwestern state of Sinaloa in search of the billion-dollar poppy and marijuana farms that litter the region. In the operative the Mexican troops destroyed packed marijuana as well as bundles of the plant for processing, accounting for over 100 tonnes, according Army Commander General, Moises Melo. Picture taken December 8, 2011. REUTERS/Bernardo Montoya (MEXICO - Tags: DRUGS SOCIETY MILITARY)

The foreign policies of the Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG – Part I: In the Americas

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Friday, July 22, 2022

image of migrant along US-Mexico border

Who are the 1 million missing workers that could solve America’s labor shortages?

Dany Bahar and Pedro Casas-Alatriste

Thursday, July 14, 2022

Map of North America

USMCA at 2: Visions for next steps

Joshua P. Meltzer, Edward Alden, Antoni Estevadeordal, Goldy Hyder, C.J. Mahoney, Eric Miller, and Arturo Sarukhan

Thursday, July 7, 2022

A bullet-riddled facade with the acronym of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) is pictured in El Aguaje after the visit of Vatican's ambassador to Mexico Franco Coppola to the area and to the municipality of Aguililla, an area where the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and local drug gangs are fighting to control the territory, in Michoacan state, Mexico April 23, 2021. REUTERS/Alan Ortega

How Mexico’s Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación rules

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Sunday, May 29, 2022

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador looks on during a ceremony at the Revolution Palace in Havana, Cuba, May 8, 2022. Yamil Lage/Pool via REUTERS

Mexican President López Obrador snubs the Summit of the Americas

Arturo Sarukhan

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Mexico's Congresspeople pose with Russia's ambassador in Mexico Viktor Koronelli as they participate in the installation of the Friendship Group "Mexico-Russian Federation", at the San Lazaro legislative palace, in Mexico City, Mexico March 23, 2022. REUTERS/Luis Barron

López Obrador’s flirtation with Russia risks worsening US-Mexican relations

Arturo Sarukhan

Monday, April 11, 2022

A policeman stands guard at a police station where seven Sinaloa drug cartel members are being presented to the media after they were arrested with a an arsenal of heavy weapons in Mexico City February 13, 2008. REUTERS/Stringer (MEXICO)

How the Sinaloa Cartel rules

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, April 4, 2022

China’s role in poaching and wildlife trafficking in Mexico

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

Coast guards carry two specimens of smuggled hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) in Fangchenggang city, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, 28 June 2017.Guards seized 11 bags of crocodile skins and two specimens of hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) in Fangchenggang city, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, 28 June 2017. Crocodile skin is the upmarket of consumer goods because of its small quantities and luxurious quality. The smuggling of alligator skins is emerging as the high-end leather market flourishes.No Use China. No Use France.

China-linked wildlife poaching and trafficking in Mexico

Vanda Felbab-Brown

March 2022

China’s role in the smuggling of synthetic drugs and precursors

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

A chemical specialist in a protective suit shows pills seized at a clandestine drug processing laboratory of fentanyl located in the Azcapotzalco municipality, in Mexico City, Mexico, in this handout photograph released to Reuters by PGR - Attorney General's Office, December 12, 2018. PGR - Attorney General's Office/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY

China and synthetic drugs control: Fentanyl, methamphetamines, and precursors

Vanda Felbab-Brown

March 2022

Local women peel and clean freshly caught fish by family members at their home in Celestun.On Tuesday, February 22, 2022, in Celestun, Yucatan, Mexico. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

The women guardians of Conchalito – Organized crime is taking over Mexican fisheries, part III

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, March 21, 2022

Smuggled Mexican box turtles were wrapped in duct tape, stuffed into socks and hidden in four coffee cans. Credit: USFWS

Something fishy: Wildlife trafficking from Mexico to China

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, March 8, 2022