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Tag Archives: drug war
Scenes From The Narco War: Sinaloa Politicians Indicted
Here’s a bit of news that was too large to shoehorn into yesterday’s LinkSwarm: “Feds Charge Sinaloa’s Governor, Senator, Mayor, & Other Top Officials With Running A Narco-State.” Federal prosecutors in New York have charged ten current and former senior … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Foreign Policy
Tagged Alberto Jorge Contreras Nunez, Alexander Meza Leon, Claudia Sheinbaum, Crime, Damaso Castro Zaavedra, DEA, drug war, Enrique Diaz Vega, Enrique Inzunza Cazarez, Gerardo Merida Sanchez, Inzunza Cazarez, Ioan Grillo, Ismael Zambada Sicairos (AKA Los Mayos), Ivan Guzman, Jay Clayton, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, Jose Antonio Dionisio Hipolito, Juan Valenzuela Millan, Marco Antonio Almanza Aviles, Mexico, Morena, murder, NAFTA, Ovidio Guzman, Ruben Rocha Moya, Sinaloa, Sinaloa Cartel, Southern District of New York, Zero Hedge
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Has Mexico Had Enough?
Mexico has long suffered from drug cartel violence, at least since the demise of Colombian cartels in the 1990s. Various cartels seem to hold sway over different parts of Mexico, as tracked by this fairly up-to-date map from Wikipedia, the … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Foreign Policy, Texas
Tagged Carlos Manzo, Cartel Del Noreste, Claudia Sheinbaum, corruption, Crime, drug war, drugs, Foreign Policy, Gerardo Villarreal Martinez, Houston, Mexico, Mexico City, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes AKA "El Mencho", New Generation drug cartel, Sinaloa Drug Cartel, Texas
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LinkSwarm For October 10, 2025
Trump might actually bring peace to the Middle East, the FBI behaving badly (again), Letitia James gets served a heaping plate of payback, a bomb factory goes boom, a dive into the mind of a social justice warrior, Ukraine keeps … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Democrats, Foreign Policy, Jihad, Media Watch, Military, Social Justice Warriors, Texas, video
Tagged 2026 Election, 2026 Texas Senate Race, Accurate Energetic Systems, AI, Alexander Stubb, Ammon Blair, Belgorod, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bill Hagerty, Black Sea, Bosnian Ape Society, Brand U.S.A., Budget, Chicago, China, Clownfish TV, Crime, Crimea, Critical Drinker, Cynthia Lummis, Democrats, desalination plant, Disney, dogs, Donald Trump, drones, drug war, Dzerzhinsk, Efimovka, Eman Abdelhadi, ESPN, explosion, FBI, Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), feminism, Feodosia, Finland, Florida, Foreign Policy, fraud, Gaza, gold, Google, Greg Abbott, Hamas, Hasan Piker, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Israel, Israel-Hamas War, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jeffrey Allen Manchester, Jihad, Jimmy Kimmel, Josh Hawley, Kash Patel, Kirishi, Klintsy, Lake Onega, Legal Insurrection, Letitia James, Lindsey Graham, Lindsey Halligan, LinkSwarm, Lord of the Rings, Marsha Blackburn, Media Watch, Mexico, Middle East Peace Process, Mike Kelly, Military, movies, music, National Guard, NATO, New Generation drug cartel, Nineteenth Amendment, Pam Bondi, police, Qualcomm, Rick Beato, Ridley Scott, Robert Stacy McCain, Ron Johnson, Rush (band), Russia, Russo-Ukrainian War, Semiconductors, sex offender, ShoeOnHead, shooting, silver, Sinaloa Drug Cartel, Social Justice Warriors, Stephen Hawking, subsidies, Sverdlov, Taylor Swift, Tennessee, terrorism, Texas, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), Texas Public Policy Foundation, Todd Blanche, Tommy Tuberville, transexual, UK, Ukraine, University of Chicago, video, War on Drugs, William Pulte, WNBA
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Who Had “Rick Perry, Psychedelic Warrior” on Their 2023 Bingo Card?
To the surprise of many, Rick Perry has come out for legalization of psychedelic drugs to treat PTSD. Republican Rick Perry served as governor of Texas from 2000 to 2015 and then did a stint as secretary of energy from … Continue reading
Joe Rogan Interviews Peter Zeihan (Part 2: China, Cartels and Drug Wars)
Here’s Part 2 of my coverage of Joe Rogan’s interview with Peter Zeihan. (Part one is here.) First up, covering familiar ground for BattleSwarm readers, why China is screwed. The rich world was a population column from [as opposed to … Continue reading
Posted in Border Control, Budget, Crime, Economics, Elections, Foreign Policy, Global Warming, Waste and Fraud, Welfare State
Tagged Bitcoin, California, China, cocaine, coronavirus, demographics, drug war, electric cars, Energy Policy, environmentalism, Foreign Policy, Germany, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, Joe Rogan, Mafia, marijuana, Maxine Waters, Mexico, New Generation drug cartel, Peter Zeihan, Semiconductors, Sinaloa Drug Cartel, Taiwan, technology, TSMC, Xi Jinping
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Cartels Buying Weapons From Mexican Military
For all that the Mexican government tries to blame American arms manufacturers for arming the cartels, it appears that they’re getting their weapons from a source much closer to home. A massive security breach of the Mexican government unveiled documents … Continue reading
Posted in Border Control, Crime, Foreign Policy, Guns, Jihad
Tagged Border Controls, Crime, drug war, Guns, Lance Gooden, Mexican army, Mexico, Texas Scorecard
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Narco Tanks of Mexico
Time to do a report on a war theater where heavily armored vehicles shoot it out with each other in city streets: Mexico. (You were thinking Ukraine? Probably an update on that next week.) Cartel violence waxes and wanes, and … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Foreign Policy, Military
Tagged Crime, drug war, Foreign Policy, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacon, Military, New Generation drug cartel, Northeast Cartel, Tamaulipas, tanks, United Cartels, video
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BidenWatch for October 19, 2020
Hunter Biden revelations continue to explode, Kazakhstan joins China and Ukraine in the Biden Payola Sweepstakes, inside Biden’s Malarkey Factory, and the revolving door between social media giants and Team Biden. It’s this week’s BidenWatch! Just two more BidenWatchs until … Continue reading
Posted in Communism, Crime, Democrats, Elections, Foreign Policy, Obama Scandals
Tagged 2020 Presidential Race, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Andrii Derkach, Anna Makanju, BHR Partners, Bohai Harvest RST, Bursima, Carlos Monje, China, cocaine, Communism, coronavirus, corruption, Crime, Democrats, Dianne Feinstein, drug war, Face++, Facebook, FBI, George Mesires, Guns, Hillary Clinton, Howard Krein, Hunter Biden, Iran, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Kazakhstan, Kenes Rakishev, Matt Viser, Megvii, Michigan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Obama Scandals, oil industry, Pennsylvania, Peter Schweizer, Ron Johnson, Rudy Giuliani, Skaneateles L.L.C., transexual, Twitter, Ukraine, Wisconsin, Wuhan
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Sinaloa Cartel Wins Battle Against Mexican Government
In case you missed the news earlier this week, the Mexican government fought a running gun battle against the Sinaloan drug cartel drug cartel last week and lost. In the Sinaloan city of Culiacan, the cartel gunmen were everywhere. They … Continue reading