Mexico

Submitted by Nick Bernabe via TheAntiMedia.org,

The Mexican drug cartels are finally meeting their match as a wave of cannabis legalization efforts drastically reshapes the drug trafficking landscape in the United States. It turns out that as states legalize cannabis use and cultivation, the volume of weed brought across the border by Mexican drug cartels dramatically decreases — and is putting a dent in their cash flow.

Submitted by Dex Dunford via OilPrice.com,

Already reeling from low prices, officials with Mexico’s state-run Pemex are also fighting an ever intensifying battle against pipeline theft as organized crime tries to gain a foothold in the country’s newly reformed energy sector.

From loosely organized groups of locals to feared drug cartels, those who believe there is a significant amount of illicit profit to be made here are coming out of the woodwork—and for starters they are eyeing pipelines.

Last week, in “Welcome To Obama’s Recovery: Carrier Moving 1400 Jobs To Mexico,” we showed what happens the moment hundreds of American manufacturing workers learn that their services will no longer be needed thanks to cheap labor south of the border.

Submitted by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute,

We often  hear about homicide rates in Mexico and how they are among the highest in the world. While that is true for some parts of Mexico, much of Mexico — where nearly 80 percent of the population lives — has much lower rates than what are often quoted in the media.

A long and recently bizarre story came to a violent end last week when the world’s most notorious drug lord, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, was captured after a raid on a safe house in the coastal city of Los Mochis.

Guzmán was captured in 2014 by some of the same marines who conducted Friday’s raid but escaped from prison via an underground tunnel last year. Legend has it he also escaped from a high security facility in 2001 by hiding in a laundry basket.