The War Correspondent: Sylvia Longmire
Author Sylvia Longmire has been studying Mexico's drug and human smuggling operations for much of her life.
November 9, 2011
Author Sylvia Longmire has been studying Mexico's drug and human smuggling operations for much of her life.
November 9, 2011
Whether they carry the title of agent, officer, or marshal, your federal officers are being sent into the teeth of a war without weapons and with rules of engagement written by fools. Worse, one of your agencies tasked with the job of keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous criminals has actually been supplying those criminals with weapons.
April 11, 2011
At least seven major Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs) are primarily responsible for the $39 billion drug trade that floods narcotics across the U.S.-Mexico border. Here's a guide to the most active, and largest, cartels.
November 22, 2010
Drug-related home invasions are especially prevalent in the Sunbelt. Southern Arizona, Texas, and Atlanta serve as distribution points for traffickers delivering narcotic loads from Mexican drug trafficking organizations to distribution points where dealers and street gangs wait for their arrival.
November 3, 2010
If we want to dry up the market, we have to make the penalties for drug possession more than a hand slap.
November 3, 2010
A metal fence divides Nogales, USA from another Nogales: Nogales, Sonora, a much poorer Nogales where law enforcement is under attack from drug trafficking cartels and the cartels are under attack from many rivals.
October 31, 2010
One thing is clear about the battle against the Mexican cartels: Your strategy for countering it tends to reflect your personal world view. And regardless of where you work on this continent, Mexican drug cartels present a great danger to you as an American law enforcement officer.
May 1, 2009
Drug money is so corrupting that the drug lords have bribed both police and soldiers at the highest levels of the Mexican government.
March 1, 2009
Educating officers about terrorism is now officially "politically incorrect."
September 1, 2008
To be honest, I've never liked writing a hodge-podge of an editorial note. It's kind of a cheat. But I have a lot of things to talk about this month and, since this is my only platform to do it, I'm going to machine-gun some stuff at you.
July 1, 2005
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