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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Judging from recent reports by the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC), you could come to the conclusion that Mexican drug cartels can do something the U.S. government cannot - control border ...

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 ...