Drug Trade Archives

November 9, 2021

Your Red Snapper Filet Might Have Been Caught by Drug Runners

Federal agencies have long struggled to stop illegal fishing and drug smuggling in the Gulf of Mexico. In recent years, it’s only gotten worse.

January 21, 2013

As the Mexican drug cartels have waged war along the border, they have also developed a disciplined approach to managing the press.

January 21, 2013

Inside the vicious cartel war in northern Mexico—and one family’s struggle to survive.

July 31, 2011

Drug gangs in Mexico are increasingly turning to American teenagers to smuggle their loads across the border. What can be done?

September 30, 2010

When people ask me if cartel violence will find its way into Texas, I tell them it already has—and it’s going to get worse.

January 1, 1998

The cocaine goes north. The money goes south. And Mexican kingpins like Juan García Abrego laugh all the way to the bank—a Texas bank, that is.

July 1, 1987

There are three secrets to Miguel Felix Gallardo’s multimillion-dollar empire of drugs and power. Corruption, corruption, and corruption.

July 31, 1973

At least 90 are already dead as drug lords fight for routes into Texas.