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Cocaine & Crude (Part 1)
VICE News sent Suroosh Alvi to Mexico to meet the drug cartels who are now stealing the country's oil.
Venga a comer el coctel de camarones más grande del mundo a la tierra de las masacres más terribles de México
For one day, a Mexican town devastated by years of drug cartel violence attempted to replace the smell of death with the smell of fish.
How the 'Ndrangheta Became the McDonald's of Mafias
The crime syndicate in Calabria had a total turnover that came to $75 billion in 2013.
How the 'Ndrangheta Quietly Became the McDonald's of Mafias
Last year the ‘Ndrangheta—a mob group from the region that forms the toe of Italy's boot—raked in more than $75.3 billion, which is about the same revenue as McDonald’s and Deutsche Bank combined. While those exact numbers might be a bit inflated, the...
Mexican Cartels Are Getting Into the Oil Business, and Business Is Booming
Mexican crime syndicates are using firetruck-sized drillers to bore literal drug pipelines under the border, but they're also profiting from another sort of pipeline.
The Leader of One of Mexico's Largest Drug Cartels Has Been Arrested
On Monday, authorities in Mexico captured the leader of the Zetas cartel in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, but don’t expect the arrest of ‘Z-40’ to severely disrupt the flow of cocaine to New York City. Narcotrafficking in Mexico could be returning to its old...
Catapults and Jalapeños: The Ingenious Smuggling Tech of the World's Top Drug Kingpin
For a semi-illiterate grammar school dropout, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is a bloody mastermind. Guzmán, 55, sits atop Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, which by all accounts is arguably the richest, most powerful crime syndicate in history. That's him on...
Sorry FBI, There Are Probably No Drug Cartels In Second Life
Even when it means breaking the law, there are few places the FBI won't go these days to check if you're up to no good. Your "car":http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/gps/, your "computer":https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/13460-Documents...