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☆ The killing of Americans in a Mexican border city highlights a sinister trend that US policies are making worse
  + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Luis Chaparro | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
Initial reports indicated that authorities suspected that the four kidnapped Americans had been confused for Haitian migrants, whose numbers in Matamoros have increased in recent weeks. It also revealed an overlooked trend: the extreme vulnerability of the thousands of migrants who have been stuck in Mexican border towns for the past three years. "We feel like we are being kidnapped inside this city," Fedler Dominic, an Haitian migrant in Matamoros, told Insider in a phone interview. In April 2022, three migrants, including a man from Peru, were kidnapped in Nuevo Laredo, another border city. "You can't basically move from the camp," Manuel Velázquez, a Cuban migrant in Matamoros, told Insider.
☆ Marijuana legalization has stalled in Mexico, but farmers and cartels are still making big plans to profit off a new market
  + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Luis Chaparro | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
An effort to legalize marijuana in Mexico has stalled after several years of debate by lawmakers. But Mexican cartels and independent growers are still preparing to cater to a new domestic market. The Sinaloa Cartel in particular is drawing business lessons from marijuana dispensaries in the US. At the current price for weed, Margarita gets roughly $25 a kilo. A marijuana legalization activist smokes marijuana in front of the San Lazaro Legislative Palace in Mexico City in October 2022.
☆ The Sinaloa Cartel's 'narco juniors' have big plans for marijuana, and they're borrowing ideas from California's dispensaries
  + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Luis Chaparro | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
Sinaloa Cartel members want to get a jump on the potential legalization of marijuana in Mexico. The key to their new business, according to Sinaloa Cartel operatives who spoke with Insider, is marketing. Marijuana cigarettes inside a manufacturing house in Culiacán. The "godfather" said that the organization has at least 20 different manufacturing houses under different brands. Its logo has an astronaut eating a slice of pizza — the pizza is used by the Sinaloa Cartel to reference "La Chapisa," the people working for "El Chapo" and his sons.
☆ The DEA says drug cartels are putting fentanyl in candy to sell to kids. Cartel operatives say it's 'actually the opposite.'
  + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Luis Chaparro | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
Two operatives in the Sinaloa Cartel told Insider they're actually trying to do the opposite. But operatives in the Sinaloa Cartel, the Mexican criminal organization behind the biggest shipments of fentanyl to the US, told Insider their intention is actually the opposite. US authorities began their campaign several months before Halloween, warning of alleged attempts by Mexican drug cartels to entice kids into drugs by selling rainbow-colored fentanyl pills and adding fentanyl to Halloween candies. "Rainbow fentanyl — fentanyl pills and powder that come in a variety of bright colors, shapes, and sizes — is a deliberate effort by drug traffickers to drive addiction amongst kids and young adults," Milgram said. The Sinaloa Cartel operative denied that his organization is targeting kids or young adults in the US as their final users.
☆ A new generation of narcos is rising in Mexico, and they're bringing a new style of music to celebrate their exploits
  + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Luis Chaparro | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
A new generation of narcos are taking over in some of Mexico's most powerful criminal groups. They're bringing some changes to the drug trade, including new music to celebrate their exploits. "This music was a consequence of the Sinaloa Cartel's plugs [contacts] in Atlanta, where Trap music first went viral," a Flechas commander told Insider. The songs provide a different — and maybe more accurate — version of what is happening inside Mexico's criminal underworld, Ramírez added. At the top of this new generation of narcos are the "narco juniors" who are following their fathers into the business.
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