The Mexican cartels, also known as Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs) or “El Narco,” are responsible for using precursor chemicals purchased from China illicitly to manufacture fentanyl, an ...

As it currently stands, Mexican drug cartels are classified as drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) despite being involved in a broader assortment of criminal activity far beyond the realm of the ...

In 2009, US authorities along the southwest border seized some 1.5 million kilograms of marijuana, up from about one million kilograms in 2005. Even so, RAND could see the tide was shifting and ...

Assassinating the family of a Mexican marine who had participated (and been killed) in a raid against a DTO, as happened in late 2009, was an unambiguous threat against all law enforcemen t personnel.

In May 2005, New York Times correspondent Ginger Thompson filed a harrowing dispatch from the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo, “a fast-growing hub of drug smuggling that has been transformed from a ...

Nov. 15, 2006 — -- Mexican drug-trafficking cartels have moved in to fill the void left by the successful crackdown on small methamphetamine labs across the United States, ... or DTOs, have ...

The National Drug Intelligence Center’s 2010 drug threat assessment says Mexican drug trafficking organizations are expanding their control across the U.S.

Mexican drug trafficking organizations (DTOs)—sometimes referred to as transnational criminal organizations—dominate the import and distribution of cocaine, fentanyl, ...

Experts say this is only a reflection of how badly the Mexican government’s war against DTOs is failing today. Last year, Mexican lawmakers admitted that some 71 percent of municipal governments ...

The Mexican DTOs are now the principal source of the methamphetamine used in the United States, and they operate with effective impunity in their home country.

President Felipe Calderón visited Washington earlier this month amid a significant escalation in drug-related violence in Mexico and strained relations with the United States. However, it is ...

A Midland drug trafficker, Jose Ramon Castillo-Lopez, 30 of Namiquipa, Chihuahua, Mexico with ties to a Mexican cartel has been sentenced to life in prison, according to a United States Department ...