A report on the rise and fall of Carlos Salinas and Raul Salinas and Mexico's narco-political corruption ...

Since the 1970's, Colombia has been home to some of the most violent and sophisticated drug trafficking organizations in the world. What started as a small cocaine smuggling business has, in the last thirty years, blossomed into an enormous multi-national cocaine empire. Traffickers today have enough capital under their control to build sophisticated smuggling equipment, such as a high tech ...

Excerpted from: ERRI DAILY INTELLIGENCE REPORT-ERRI Risk Assessment Services-Monday, August 25, 1997-Vol. 3 - 237 DRUG CARTEL INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS By Steve Macko, ERRI Crime Analyst The title of this report may confuse the reader. Some might think that this report will discuss law enforcement intelligence operations against illicit drug traffickers. That would be an incorrect assumption. This ...

From: ERRI DAILY INTELLIGENCE REPORT-ERRI Risk Assessment Services-Thursday, December 4, 1997 Vol. 3 - 338 TODAY'S MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS By Steve Macko, ERRI Crime Analyst Once they were merely known as mules for Colombia's powerful cocaine cartels. Today, Mexico's narcotics traffickers have grown into drug lords in their own right, and the front line of the drug war has shifted from the Andean ...