However, the recent upswing in drug cartel-related violence has thrown the risk-reward calculus into question.
His job: to eliminate five witnesses in an impending federal prosecution of a drug cartel.
Parts of Falcon Lake are under direct control of the Zetas drug cartel, Burton said.
The example of Mexico and Guatemala are very alarming examples of the devastating effects of drug cartel activity.
Continuing its eTrace Initiative which works with Mexican officials to forensically track weapons used in drug cartel violence.
The Northern Valley drug cartel was prominent in the 1990s, after the break-up of the Medellin and Cali cartels.
By allowing guns to infiltrate Mexico's drug cartel, we thought we could trace them up the ladder to the leaders.
Mr Renteria, who allegedly headed Colombia's Norte del Valle drug cartel, was handed over to US officials at Caracas airport.
Police in the United States have arrested 45 people they accuse of belonging to the Mexican drug cartel La Familia Michoacana.
It is not that surprising that Iran hatched a plot reaching out to a Mexican drug cartel to carry it out.
Drug cartel members blocked roads with hijacked vehicles in the border states of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas over two days in March.
Mexican president Felipe Calderon says plans by a notorious drug cartel for an extravagant party led to the killing of its leader.
Michoacan has seen a surge in violence as a drug cartel calling itself the Knights Templar fights rival gangs and the security forces.
BBC: Mexico government says drug-related murders down by 14%
Last season ended with a cathartic payoff, as Walt outsmarted, then murdered, his enemy, Gus, the leader of an internationally connected drug cartel.
Drug cartel members have posted banners saying the snack company let law enforcement agents use its trucks for surveillance, a charge Gonzalez denied.
Police say they belong to the La Familia Michoacana drug cartel and that most of the victims were reportedly look-outs for rival gangs.
The Treasury Department identified six casas and centros last year used by the Arellano Felix drug cartel to launder proceeds smuggled across the border.
In one chilling case authorities discovered that Juan Alberto Monsalve, the New York distributor for Colombia's Norte Valle drug cartel, relied on his Queens, N.
In other developments, Colombia's Supreme Court Wednesday opened the way for the extradition of Fabio Ochoa, a major drug kingpin for the Medellin drug cartel.
Henao's brother, Orlando, and her husband, Ivan Urdinola, were considered co-founders of Colombia's Norte del Valle or Northern Valley drug cartel in the late 1980s.
The indictment says one of the accused approached a US informant, who was posing as a member of a Mexican drug cartel, to carry out the assassination.
The drug money network that Union Bank got caught up in is part of the wider drug cartel response to tighter money laundering restrictions at U.S. banks.
The prosecution had alleged Noriega laundered the 2.3m euros from Colombia's Medellin drug cartel in the late 1980s through the now-defunct Bank of Credit and Commerce International.
The change in command in Juarez's police force comes in the wake of a campaign of intimidation by a drug cartel that has the border city in its grip.
CNN: Death threats force Juarez police chief to resign, mayor says
That one was later recovered at the scene of a shootout between a Mexican drug cartel and military troops that left Mexican beauty queen Flores Gamez and four others dead.
Supporters of the online collective and global network of hacktivists have apparently cancelled plans to expose the names of collaborators with a powerful Mexican drug cartel known as Los Zeta.
When Ben and Chon's wealthy, slacker girlfriend O (short for Ophelia), is kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel known for decapitating those who cross them, Ben's nonviolent stance is called into question.
Even though there have been major achievements on the security front, drug cartel-related killings rose by 117% to 5, 376 in 2008 as compared to 2007, when there were 2, 477 such slayings.
With kidnappings, drug cartel shootouts and other violent crime pervasive in parts of Mexico, the tourism industry has taken a hit, although popular destinations like Cancun are so well-protected that problems are rare.
The Farc "may be hard hit militarily and they may fragment, but they will simply turn into the powerful and heavily armed drug cartel in the world" says Juan Gonzalez, a lawyer in Medellin.
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