Cosa Nostra News

" Mexicans don’t flip. Part of the way the cartels retain control is through fear. Mexicans will cooperate to a certain level, but they won’t talk about Sinaloa. They know their family back home will be killed .” -- Undercover DEA agent... Olivia and Mia Flores (not their real names) wrote Cartel Wives , which tells the story of their lives as the wives of twin brothers who worked for Joaquín (El Chapo) Guzman, the former head of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel. Olivia and Mia Flores...  After their husbands decided to cooperate with US law enforcement to help nail El Chapo and other high-ranking cartel figures in exchange for reduced sentences, they went to prison, where they’ve resided for the past 10 years in undisclosed locations. The women live under phony names in hotels with armed guards. The two women grew up in a Chicago suburb, the daughters of police officers. They are not in the witness protection program, however, because they “chose to not be in it,” as they expla...

What if the drug cartels decided selling narcotics wasn't worth all the legal headaches.... Imagine what would happen if Mexican drug cartels started getting out of the drug business ... sounds crazy, but a precedent for this scenario has been set. According to the Arizona Daily Star website, the Knights Templar drug cartel in western Mexico has diversified to the point that drug trafficking is not among its more profitable businesses anymore. "The cartel counts illegal mining, logging and extortion as its biggest moneymakers, said Alfredo Castillo, the Mexican government’s special envoy sent to restore the rule of law in Michoacan, the state controlled by the Knights Templar the last several years," the article noted. Iron ore “is their principle source of income,” Castillo told the Associated Press. “They’re charging $15 (a metric ton) for the process, from extraction to transport, processing, storage, permits and finally export.” The ore itself doesn’t g...