The number of Americans apprehended for human smuggling in the El Paso border sector has spiked by “over 80 percent during the past three to four years,” Fidel Baca, a Border Patrol spokesperson in El Paso told VICE News. The El Paso sector, which has long been a hotbed of smuggling activity, includes 268 miles […]
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The Global Hunt for ‘Narco Millennial’ Sebastián Marset
Rumors were rampant about the whereabouts of one of the world’s most wanted fugitives — Sebastián Marset—wanted internationally by Interpol since Mayof last year. Some said the baby-faced, soccer playing, concert promoter who allegedly moonlights as a transnational cocaine kingpin was in Brazil. Others believed he was in Mozambique. But in late July, when hundreds […]
Read MoreEl Chapo’s Son Ovidio Just Pleaded Not Guilty to Drug Charges in Chicago
A photo Guzmán sitting on the plane that flew him from Mexico the U.S still wearing the khaki uniform used at the Altiplano prison. He’s wearing eyeglasses and is handcuffed at the wrists and waist. Photo posted courtesy of former DEA agent Derek Maltz Ovidio Guzmán, one of the sons of the notorious drug lord […]
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