Author: fronteranortesur

Drugs and the Trans-Pacific Partnership

October 7, 2015

Yet like NAFTA before it, the TPP could open the door wide to greater and more lucrative opportunities for a generally unspoken class of entrepreneurs lurking in the midst–drug traffickers.

Old Cartels Never Really Die…

September 16, 2015

Despite recurrent pronouncements of death by some U.S. and Mexican officials, high-profile organized crime groups continue operating and shedding blood south of the border. Tijuana, where control of both the local and export drug business is the prize of contention, figures once again as a significant flashpoint of violence.

Indigenous Mexico Rising Again

August 13, 2014

Representatives of Mexico’s indigenous peoples have issued a new declaration and announced upcoming mobilizations to further their cause.

Mexico’s New Agricultural Crisis

February 15, 2011

February’s freezing fury has left a path of crumpled crops, pummeled harvests and dashed dreams in the countryside of northern Mexico. Hardest hit was the northwestern state of Sinaloa, known as the”Bread Basket of Mexico,” where about 750,000 acres of corn crops were reported destroyed after unusually cold temperatures blanketed the north of the country in January and early February.

Obama’s Cartel Trust Busters

June 8, 2009

On a whirl-wind tour of the Southwest late last week, senior members of the Obama administration laid out the White House’s strategy for border […]