I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
The battle over drug routes through Ciudad Juarez has been won, the Associated Press tells us this morning, with Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s Sinaloa cartel being the winner. This doesn’t mean the violence that has plagued the city, killing more than 5000 people in just a few years, is over, but the fighting is mainly over “retail” sales in Juarez now, experts say.
U.S. authorities believe the Sinaloa cartel has the upper hand over the Juarez gang, with an FBI spokesperson in El Paso confirming that the majority of the drugs arriving in that city are now from Guzman’s cartel.
The Sinaloa cartel is the largest in the world, the AP reports, and its move to take control of Juarez in 2008 is what prompted the Mexican government to send military troops to the city.
According to the analysis in the AP article, the violence in Juarez is primarily between local gangs aligned with either the Sinaloa or Juarez gangs, with the Sinaloa gang beginning to win out. With the major drug routes to the U.S. won, most of the fighting is now over “retail” sales in Juarez. As the Juarez gang diminishes, the rural farming villages it controlled historically along the border are falling to Guzman as well.
