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Tambi&#233;n se encargaba de las comunicaciones de una secci&#243;n del c&#225;rtel y lleg&#243; a reportar directamente a Iv&#225;n Archivaldo Guzm&#225;n, hijo de El Chapo y l&#237;der de la facci&#243;n de los Chapitos. Su lucrativa carrera termin&#243; en febrero de 2025 cuando soldados mexicanos lo arrestaron tras un tiroteo, y fue entregado a custodia estadounidense en agosto.</span></p><p><span>Jando se hizo tristemente c&#233;lebre el mes pasado cuando se le acus&#243; de ser el piloto que traslad&#243; al veterano capo Ismael &#8220;El Mayo&#8221; Zambada desde Sinaloa a un aeropuerto de Nuevo M&#233;xico tras su secuestro el 25 de julio de 2024. Agentes federales arrestaron a Mayo en el aer&#243;dromo del condado de Do&#241;a Ana al aterrizar en un Beechcraft King Air, y finalmente fue condenado a cadena perpetua el lunes. Joaqu&#237;n Guzm&#225;n L&#243;pez, otro hijo del Chapo, tambi&#233;n fue arrestado al bajar del avi&#243;n, confes&#243; el secuestro de Mayo y est&#225; cooperando con la fiscal&#237;a estadounidense. El incidente desat&#243; una guerra civil entre el c&#225;rtel en Sinaloa, que desde entonces ha sufrido m&#225;s de 3.500 asesinatos y miles de desapariciones.</span></p><p><span>Sin embargo, en una conversaci&#243;n telef&#243;nica con CrashOut, el abogado de Jando, Jonathan Savella, afirm&#243; que Jando no fue detenido ni acusado tras el secuestro de Mayo. &#171;Puedo confirmar que no fue arrestado ese d&#237;a. No puedo confirmar d&#243;nde se encontraba ese d&#237;a&#187;, declar&#243; Savella.</span></p><p><span>Esta declaraci&#243;n a&#241;ade a&#250;n m&#225;s misterio al desconcertante caso de Jando, el controvertido secuestro transfronterizo de Mayo y la forma en que los agentes federales estadounidenses lo manejaron (u organizaron). Incluso el nombre de Jando es ambiguo: se le identifica como Mauro Alberto N&#250;&#241;ez Ojeda (incluso en su acusaci&#243;n formal), pero en algunos documentos aparece como Alejandro Ojeda &#193;vila (y Jando podr&#237;a ser la abreviatura de Alejandro).</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yEfc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4155bbcc-de13-47a7-a888-371054cf7ab5_1632x572.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yEfc!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4155bbcc-de13-47a7-a888-371054cf7ab5_1632x572.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yEfc!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4155bbcc-de13-47a7-a888-371054cf7ab5_1632x572.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yEfc!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4155bbcc-de13-47a7-a888-371054cf7ab5_1632x572.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yEfc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4155bbcc-de13-47a7-a888-371054cf7ab5_1632x572.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yEfc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4155bbcc-de13-47a7-a888-371054cf7ab5_1632x572.png" width="458" height="160.42582417582418" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4155bbcc-de13-47a7-a888-371054cf7ab5_1632x572.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:510,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:458,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.crashoutmedia.com/i/208286153?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2F%24s_%21yEfc%21%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252F4155bbcc-de13-47a7-a888-371054cf7ab5_1632x572.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yEfc!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4155bbcc-de13-47a7-a888-371054cf7ab5_1632x572.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yEfc!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4155bbcc-de13-47a7-a888-371054cf7ab5_1632x572.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yEfc!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4155bbcc-de13-47a7-a888-371054cf7ab5_1632x572.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yEfc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4155bbcc-de13-47a7-a888-371054cf7ab5_1632x572.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><span>Si Jando fue realmente el piloto que entreg&#243; a Mayo a agentes estadounidenses, su historia es extraordinaria. Habr&#237;a participado en un secuestro transfronterizo, pero habr&#237;a sido liberado por agentes federales estadounidenses sin cargos y habr&#237;a regresado a M&#233;xico. Un tribunal estadounidense emiti&#243; una acusaci&#243;n formal sellada en su contra en enero de 2025, las fuerzas de seguridad mexicanas lo arrestaron en febrero de ese mismo a&#241;o y M&#233;xico lo entreg&#243; a custodia estadounidense en agosto, como parte de un traslado extraordinario de prisioneros.</span></p><p><span>Le pregunt&#233; a Savella, el abogado, sobre la posible cooperaci&#243;n de Jando con los fiscales estadounidenses para atrapar a otros narcos o pol&#237;ticos corruptos y cu&#225;nto tiempo de prisi&#243;n cumplir&#237;a. Savella respondi&#243; que&#8230;</span></p><p><em><span>Lo sentimos, amigos, necesitan suscribirse para leer el resto de esta historia. 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Para leer en espa&#241;ol <a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/abogado-jando-no-fue-arrestado-tras">click aqu&#237;.</a></p><p>The 32-year old Sinaloan pilot known as &#8220;El Jando&#8221; (pronounced Hando) confessed in a statement to a U.S. court in April that he worked with the Sinaloa Cartel for over a decade, flying planes with hundreds of kilos of cocaine and with shipments of guns, and overseeing a fleet of aircraft &#8220;including Caravans, Pipers, King Air and Cessna 206&#8217;s.&#8221; He also ran communications for a section of the cartel and rose to report directly to Iv&#225;n Archivaldo Guzm&#225;n, the son of El Chapo and leader of the Chapitos faction. His lucrative career came to an end in February 2025 when Mexican soldiers arrested him after a shoot out, and he was transferred into U.S. custody in August. </p><p>Jando gained real infamy, however, this last month when it was alleged he was the pilot who flew the veteran kingpin Ismael &#8220;El Mayo&#8221; Zambada from Sinaloa to an airport in New Mexico after he was kidnapped on July 25, 2024. Federal agents arrested Mayo at the Do&#241;a Ana County airfield when he landed in a Beechcraft King Air and he was finally given a life sentence <a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/el-mayos-last-hustle">on Monday</a>. Joaqu&#237;n Guzm&#225;n L&#243;pez, another son of Chapo, was also arrested coming off the plane, confessed to kidnapping Mayo and is cooperating with U.S. prosecutors. The incident sparked a cartel civil war in Sinaloa, which has suffered more than 3,500 murders and thousands of disappearances since. </p><p>However, speaking by phone to CrashOut, Jando&#8217;s lawyer, Jonathan Savella, said that Jando was not booked or charged following Mayo&#8217;s abduction. &#8220;I can confirm he was <em>not</em> arrested that day. I cannot confirm his location that day,&#8221; Savella said. </p><p>The statement adds yet more mystery to the confounding case of Jando, the controversial cross-border kidnapping of Mayo, and how U.S. federal agents handled (or organized) it. Even Jando&#8217;s name is murky: he is identified as Mauro Alberto N&#250;&#241;ez Ojeda (including in his indictment) but in some documents is called Alejandro Ojeda &#193;vila (and Jando could be short for Alejandro). </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yEfc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4155bbcc-de13-47a7-a888-371054cf7ab5_1632x572.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yEfc!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4155bbcc-de13-47a7-a888-371054cf7ab5_1632x572.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yEfc!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4155bbcc-de13-47a7-a888-371054cf7ab5_1632x572.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yEfc!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4155bbcc-de13-47a7-a888-371054cf7ab5_1632x572.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yEfc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4155bbcc-de13-47a7-a888-371054cf7ab5_1632x572.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yEfc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4155bbcc-de13-47a7-a888-371054cf7ab5_1632x572.png" width="462" height="161.82692307692307" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4155bbcc-de13-47a7-a888-371054cf7ab5_1632x572.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:510,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:462,&quot;bytes&quot;:277941,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.crashoutmedia.com/i/208258290?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4155bbcc-de13-47a7-a888-371054cf7ab5_1632x572.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yEfc!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4155bbcc-de13-47a7-a888-371054cf7ab5_1632x572.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yEfc!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4155bbcc-de13-47a7-a888-371054cf7ab5_1632x572.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yEfc!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4155bbcc-de13-47a7-a888-371054cf7ab5_1632x572.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yEfc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4155bbcc-de13-47a7-a888-371054cf7ab5_1632x572.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>If Jando were indeed the pilot who flew Mayo into the hands of U.S. agents his journey is remarkable. He would have participated in a cross-border kidnapping yet been released by U.S. federal agents without charges and traveled back to Mexico. A U.S. court then issued a sealed indictment for him in January 2025, Mexican security forces arrested him that February and Mexico expelled him into U.S. custody as part of an extraordinary transfer of prisoners in August. </p><p>I asked Savella, the lawyer, about Jando&#8217;s potential cooperation with U.S. prosecutors to nail other narcos or corrupt politicians and how much prison time he would do. Savella replied that&#8230;</p><p><em>Sorry folks, you need to subscribe to read the rest of this story. But it&#8217;s only the price of a cuppa coffee and you get the complete archive including <a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/carlos-lehders-vida-loca-in-the-medellin">exclusive interviews </a>with top players and <a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/mexicos-cartel-map-2024">maps of cartel territory</a>. 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[La última jugada de El Mayo]]></title><description><![CDATA[La cadena perpetua era inevitable, pero el cabecilla jug&#243; sus cartas para evitar ingresar en la Supermax]]></description><link>https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/la-ultima-jugada-de-el-mayo</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/la-ultima-jugada-de-el-mayo</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ioan Grillo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:50:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!v5Z1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7e1a1b74-e83e-4d0e-a339-0ace8fa6b2ec_960x646.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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La penitenciar&#237;a puso al capo de 76 a&#241;os en aislamiento, lo que representa un riesgo para la salud mental del recluso (o, dicho de forma m&#225;s sencilla, lo vuelve loco).</p><p>Para contrarrestar esto, el equipo legal se asegur&#243; de que recibiera visitas constantes, incluyendo asistentes legales y su abogado principal, Frank P&#233;rez, el fiscal estadounidense m&#225;s destacado en la defensa de narcos junto con Jeffrey Lichtman, quien represent&#243; a Joaqu&#237;n &#8220;El Chapo&#8221; Guzm&#225;n. Cuando entrevist&#233; a P&#233;rez en la Ciudad de M&#233;xico el a&#241;o pasado, le pregunt&#233; de qu&#233; hablaba Mayo durante esas horas. P&#233;rez respondi&#243; que el narco ten&#237;a dos temas principales de conversaci&#243;n: el ganado de su rancho en Sinaloa y la pol&#237;tica, incluyendo asuntos tanto mexicanos como estadounidenses.</p><p>La an&#233;cdota arroja luz sobre la sentencia dictada hoy contra Mayo en Nueva York y el acuerdo al que finalmente lleg&#243;. Esta ma&#241;ana, a las 11:00, hora de Nueva York, el juez Brian Cogan, quien tambi&#233;n sentenci&#243; al socio de Mayo, El Chapo, y al corrupto jefe de seguridad Genaro Garc&#237;a Luna, le impuso a Mayo una condena a cadena perpetua.</p><p>El anciano padrino recibi&#243; la sentencia despu&#233;s de entrar cojeando a la sala del tribunal con un mono naranja, y seg&#250;n se informa, exclam&#243; un &#8220;&#161;hay cabr&#243;n!&#8221; para mostrar su dificultad para levantarse, <a href="https://x.com/keegan_hamilton/status/2079227283286753613">de acuerdo a</a> los periodistas se encontraban en la tribuna. Se disculp&#243; por sus cr&#237;menes y pronunci&#243; un breve discurso sobre la necesidad de poner fin a las guerras entre c&#225;rteles en M&#233;xico.</p><p>&#8220;La violencia debe acabar en M&#233;xico&#8221;, dijo. &#8220;Se pierden demasiadas vidas. Se destrozan familias. Se arrastra a los j&#243;venes a una vida sin futuro. Nadie ganar&#225; esta guerra&#8221;.</p><p>Los fiscales recalcaron que Mayo morir&#237;a en prisi&#243;n, lo que les dar&#237;a una victoria sobre los c&#225;rteles en un caso en el que los agentes estadounidenses trabajaron durante d&#233;cadas y en el que Mayo finalmente fue arrestado tras un controvertido secuestro transfronterizo hace dos a&#241;os, en julio de 2024.</p><p>&#8220;El Mayo fue el narcotraficante m&#225;s importante del mundo en este siglo&#8221;, declar&#243; Joseph Nocella Jr., fiscal federal del Distrito Este de Nueva York, en una rueda de prensa a las afueras del tribunal. &#8220;Espero que la cadena perpetua de El Mayo brinde un m&#237;nimo de consuelo a las familias que han sufrido tanto. Los capos de la droga mueren en prisi&#243;n. El destino de El Mayo es morir en prisi&#243;n&#8221;.</p><p>Sin embargo, si bien el gobierno estadounidense se asegur&#243; de que Mayo pasara sus &#250;ltimos a&#241;os en una celda ah&#237;, el astuto capo tambi&#233;n lleg&#243; a un acuerdo calculado sobre la incautaci&#243;n de bienes y la cooperaci&#243;n que probablemente le permitir&#225; evitar la dura prisi&#243;n de Supermax, donde se encuentra Chapo, y as&#237; eludir un mayor aislamiento. Mayo sobrevivi&#243; medio siglo en el mundo del narco porque era un negociador h&#225;bil, fascinado por la pol&#237;tica. En su sentencia, negoci&#243; su &#250;ltimo acuerdo, que expongo aqu&#237;.</p><p>Los detalles de esta incautaci&#243;n de activos y cooperaci&#243;n no son lo que parecen a primera vista. Mayo construy&#243; su acuerdo&#8230;</p><p><em>Lo sentimos, amigos, necesitan suscribirse para leer el resto de esta historia. 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[El Mayo's Last Hustle]]></title><description><![CDATA[A life sentence was unavoidable but the kingpin played his cards to stay out the Supermax]]></description><link>https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/el-mayos-last-hustle</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/el-mayos-last-hustle</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ioan Grillo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:29:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hmUt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F830355f8-57d8-4b4c-9e90-9d76bc1c8ea1_960x646.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/la-ultima-jugada-de-el-mayo" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source 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stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Para leer en espa&#241;ol <a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/la-ultima-jugada-de-el-mayo">click aqu&#237;.</a></p><p>As Ismael &#8220;El Mayo&#8221; Zambada, probably the most prolific narco trafficker to ever come out of Mexico, was in the Metropolitan Detention Center, or MDC, in Brooklyn, New York, his legal team encountered a challenge. The penitentiary put the 76-year old kingpin in solitary confinement and this poses a risk of damaging the mental health of the prisoner (or to put it more plainly, driving him nuts). </p><p>To counter this, the legal team made sure people were visiting him constantly, including legal assistants and his main lawyer, Frank Perez, the most prominent U.S. attorney to defend narcos alongside Jeffrey Lichtman, who repped Joaqu&#237;n &#8220;El Chapo&#8221; Guzm&#225;n. When I interviewed Perez in Mexico City last year, I asked him what Mayo would talk about during these hours. Perez said that the drug lord had two main topics of conversation: the cattle on his ranch in Sinaloa, and politics, including both Mexican and U.S. affairs. </p><p>The anecdote shines light on Mayo&#8217;s sentencing today in New York and the settlement he ultimately came to. This morning at 11 am New York time, Judge Brian Cogan, who also sentenced Mayo&#8217;s partner El Chapo  and corrupt security chief Genaro Garc&#237;a Luna, handed Mayo a life sentence.    </p><p>The aging godfather received the sentence after limping into the court room in an orange jumpsuit, and reportedly exclaimed an <em>&#8220;hay cabr&#243;n!&#8221; </em>(or a &#8220;damn, man!&#8221;) to show his difficulty getting up, <a href="https://x.com/keegan_hamilton/status/2079227283286753613">according to</a> reporters in the gallery. He apologized for his crimes and gave a short sermon about needing to end the cartel wars in Mexico. </p><p>&#8220;Violence should stop in Mexico,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Too many lives are lost. It destroys families. It thrusts youths into a life without a future. Nobody will win this war.&#8221; </p><p>Prosecutors emphasized that Mayo would die in prison, giving them a victory over cartels in a case that U.S. agents worked on for decades, and in which Mayo was finally arrested after a controversial cross-border kidnapping two years ago, in July 2024.  </p><p>&#8220;El Mayo was the world&#8217;s single biggest drug trafficker this century,&#8221; Joseph Nocella Jr, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a press conference outside the court. &#8220;I hope that El Mayo&#8217;s life sentence brings some small measure of comfort to those families who have suffered so much pain. Drug kingpins die in prison. El Mayo&#8217;s fate is to die in prison.&#8221;</p><p>However, while the U.S. government has indeed ensured that Mayo will spend his last years in a U.S. cell, the wily kingpin also came to a calculated settlement around asset seizures and cooperation that will likely allow him to stay out of the punishing Supermax prison, where Chapo is, and avoid more solitary confinement. Mayo survived for a half a century in the drug game because he was a deal maker, fascinated by politics. In his sentencing, he brokered his last bargain, which I lay out here. </p><p>Details of this asset seizure and cooperation are not what they at first appear. Mayo built his agreement&#8230;  </p><p><em>Sorry folks, you need to subscribe to read the rest of this story. But it&#8217;s only the price of a cuppa coffee and you get the complete archive including <a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/carlos-lehders-vida-loca-in-the-medellin">exclusive interviews </a>with top players and <a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/mexicos-cartel-map-2024">maps of cartel territory</a>. And now is a great time to subscribe with so much going on, and I will be following the tumultuous events with reports you can trust.</em></p>
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The result in his book <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Looking-Fight-David-Matthews/dp/0747262357">Looking For A Fight</a></em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Looking-Fight-David-Matthews/dp/0747262357"> </a>shows not only his level of grit as a journalist but his absolute determination to reach the truth about hard-hitting issues (literally). </p><p>When he researched gangs for a follow up book, <em><a href="https://www.amazon.es/London-DM-David-Matthews/dp/1529104734">Gang London</a>, </em>he didn&#8217;t literally join a gang but he spent a huge amount of time with them; using his knowledge he clears away the myths and hype to find out what is really going on amid the stabbings and coke deals on the the streets of the British capital.  </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Combinando el estilo de periodista, activista e influencer, este hombre de 39 a&#241;os public&#243; videos para 164.000 suscriptores en YouTube y otros 33.000 en Facebook, adem&#225;s de en otras redes sociales.</p><p>Serna opin&#243; sobre diversos temas, desde asuntos exteriores hasta el mundo del espect&#225;culo mexicano, pero su verdadera pasi&#243;n era el medio ambiente. Denunci&#243; la contaminaci&#243;n de los r&#237;os, la destrucci&#243;n de playas y el envenenamiento del agua. Public&#243; los nombres de las empresas responsables, demostr&#243; la falta de permisos y se&#241;al&#243; a los pol&#237;ticos que, seg&#250;n &#233;l, estaban implicados. Todo esto a pesar de vivir en la ciudad tur&#237;stica de Zihuatanejo, asolada por una guerra territorial entre c&#225;rteles rivales, que tambi&#233;n se infiltran en negocios y grupos pol&#237;ticos de la zona y han obligado a varios periodistas a huir.</p><p>&#171;Alex Serna inform&#243; con tanta libertad como si estuviera ajeno al entorno en el que estaba parado&#187;, escribieron sus colegas periodistas del medio El Tlacolol, con sede en Chlipancingo, capital del estado de Guerrero. &#171;Lo que s&#237; hac&#237;a Alex Serna, y de forma contundente, era cuestionar al poder ya los poderosos.&#187;.</p><p>En marzo, Serna public&#243; sobre una amenaza que recibi&#243; y dijo que la cuenta detr&#225;s de ella estaba vinculada a un negocio que estaba investigando, propiedad de una poderosa familia pol&#237;tica. &#8220;B&#225;jale de huevos hijo de tu puta madre&#8221;, dec&#237;a la amenaza. &#8220;No estamos jugando ya tenemos tu ubicaci&#243;n y todo&#8221;.</p><p>Serna no se rindi&#243;. Continu&#243; informando hasta su &#250;ltimo video, publicado el 20 de junio, en el que mostraba da&#241;os ambientales en pueblos cercanos y acusaba a un empresario extranjero de estar involucrado. Ese d&#237;a, mientras M&#233;xico se centraba en el Mundial, con partidos disput&#225;ndose en Ciudad de M&#233;xico, Guadalajara y Monterrey, desapareci&#243;.</p><p>Desaparecer en M&#233;xico es, lamentablemente, algo com&#250;n; el gobierno tiene registrada una lista de m&#225;s de 130.000 personas desaparecidas. En Zihuatanejo, al menos otras diez personas desaparecieron entre finales de mayo y junio, y las familias, atemorizadas, solo denunciaron los casos en silencio. &#171;Ese municipio se convirti&#243; en un pozo negro&#187;, escribieron los periodistas en El Tlacolol. &#171;El miedo en Zihuatanejo es insoportable&#187;.</p><p>En medio de este terror, pasaron al menos diez d&#237;as antes de que la desaparici&#243;n de Serna se conociera en las noticias. Incluso entonces, transcurrieron varios d&#237;as m&#225;s antes de que el gobierno estatal confirmara que su cad&#225;ver se encontraba en una morgue p&#250;blica; seg&#250;n versiones, su propia familia tambi&#233;n hab&#237;a sido amenazada y aterrorizada de ir all&#237;.</p><p>El cuerpo de Serna fue descubierto dos d&#237;as despu&#233;s de su desaparici&#243;n, seg&#250;n revel&#243; finalmente un grupo estatal de derechos humanos. El cad&#225;ver presentaba signos de tortura y fue hallado en&#8230;</p><p><em><span>Lo sentimos, amigos, necesitan suscribirse para leer el resto de esta historia. 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Onslaught On Journalists In Mexico Goes On]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazingly, reporters still do hard-hitting exposes despite it]]></description><link>https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/the-onslaught-on-journalists-in-mexico</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/the-onslaught-on-journalists-in-mexico</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ioan Grillo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:49:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cGZ6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F23fc7811-0dbb-48bb-b766-ad3ffc9743fc_1724x1862.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Mixing the style of a journalist, activist, and influencer, the 39-year old posted videos to 164,000 subscribers <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@AlexSerna/videos">on YouTube</a> and another <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SernaVlog">33,000 on Facebook</a>, as well as on other social networks.</p><p>Serna commented on a range of issues, from foreign affairs to Mexican show biz, but his passion was the environment. He exposed rivers being polluted, beaches being bulldozed, water supplies being poisoned. He published names of companies responsible, showed their lack of permits and called out politicians he says were involved. This was despite living in the resort city of Zihuatanejo, which has been ravaged by a turf war between rival cartels, who also infiltrate businesses and political groups in the area, and have forced various journalists to flee.  </p><p>&#8220;Alex Serna wrote with such freedom it was like he was not in this place where he  stood,&#8221; wrote journalist colleagues <a href="https://eltlacolol.com/quien-mato-a-alex-serna/">in the outlet El Tlacolol</a>, based in the Guerrero state capital of Chlipancingo. &#8220;What Alex Serna did do, in a blunt way, was question power and the powerful.&#8221;</p><p>In March, Serna posted about a threat he received and said the account behind it was linked to a business he was investigating, owned by a powerful political family. <em>&#8220;B&#225;jale de huevos hijo de tu puta madre,&#8221; - </em>&#8220;Chill the fuck out, son of your whore mother,&#8221; the threat said. &#8220;<em>No estamos jugando ya tenemos tu ubicaci&#243;n y todo - </em>&#8220;We are not playing. We have your location and everything.&#8221;</p><p>Serna didn&#8217;t back down. He carried on reporting until his last video posted on June 20, which showed environmental damage in nearby villages and accused a foreign businessman of being involved. That day, while Mexico was focused on the World Cup, with games being played in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey, he disappeared. </p><p>To go missing in Mexico is tragically common with a government list of more than 130,000 people unaccounted for. In Zihuatanejo itself, at least ten other people disappeared in late May and June, and frightened families only quietly denounced the cases. &#8220;The municipality became a black hole,&#8221; the journalists wrote in <a href="https://eltlacolol.com/quien-mato-a-alex-serna/">El Tlacolol</a>. &#8220;Fear in Zihuatanejo is unbearable.&#8221;</p><p>Amid this terror, it took at least ten days before Serna&#8217;s disappearance made news. Even then, several more days passed before the state government confirmed that his corpse had been sitting in a public mortuary; his own family had also been threatened and terrified to go there according to accounts. </p><p>Serna&#8217;s body had actually been discovered two days after his disappearance, a state human rights group finally revealed. The corpse showed signs of torture and was found in a&#8230;</p><p><em>Sorry folks, you need to subscribe to read the rest of this story. But it&#8217;s only the price of a cuppa coffee and you get the complete archive including <a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/carlos-lehders-vida-loca-in-the-medellin">exclusive interviews </a>with top players and <a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/mexicos-cartel-map-2024">maps of cartel territory</a>. And now is a great time to subscribe with so much going on, and I will be following the tumultuous events with reports you can trust.</em></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[La hermosa Copa del Mundo de México]]></title><description><![CDATA[Y una victoria muy peleada para Inglaterra]]></description><link>https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/la-hermosa-copa-del-mundo-de-mexico</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/la-hermosa-copa-del-mundo-de-mexico</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ioan Grillo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:43:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!m5sW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98b48c53-103f-4e25-9f3d-bae83b636834_1200x1600.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Fue un momento hermoso en una hermosa Copa del Mundo aqu&#237;, que se extendi&#243; desde la ceremonia de apertura el 11 de junio, pasando por 13 partidos en tres ciudades, hasta esta batalla culminante a dos mil metros de altura. (El resto de los partidos se juegan en Canad&#225; y Estados Unidos, donde la situaci&#243;n se est&#225; poniendo picada con la intervenci&#243;n del presidente Trump por una tarjeta roja).</p><p>Algunos hab&#237;an expresado su preocupaci&#243;n de que, si Inglaterra ganaba, sus aficionados pudieran correr el riesgo de ser agredidos en M&#233;xico. Personalmente, me preguntaba c&#243;mo reaccionar&#237;an los mexicanos si su fant&#225;stica racha se viera truncada, recordando las derrotas de Inglaterra, cuando los aficionados, desconsolados, se amotinaron en el centro de Londres. Pero aqu&#237; sucedi&#243; todo lo contrario. Los aficionados mexicanos felicitaron y abrazaron a los ingleses, quienes quedaron impresionados por la c&#225;lida camarader&#237;a. Incluso yo mismo me sorprend&#237; de la generosidad de la respuesta en la calle, lo que no hace m&#225;s que aumentar mi cari&#241;o por este pa&#237;s.</p><p>Fue un final admirable para un momento m&#225;gico en M&#233;xico, con el Mundial desatando una euforia como nunca antes hab&#237;a visto en veinticinco a&#241;os aqu&#237;. Fui al &#193;ngel de la Independencia despu&#233;s de la victoria de M&#233;xico sobre Ecuador y las celebraciones fueron electrizantes, con un mill&#243;n de personas convirtiendo las calles en un carnaval, y toques surrealistas como fiesteros colgando una pi&#241;ata en un sem&#225;foro y un hombre bailando con un perro en brazos vistiendo una camiseta de M&#233;xico. Tambi&#233;n hubo tragedia, con al menos tres personas asfixiadas entre la multitud.</p><p>Me un&#237; a la fiesta del Mundial aqu&#237;, apoyando al equipo de&#8230;</p><p><em>Lo sentimos, amigos, necesitan suscribirse para leer esta historia. Pero solo cuesta lo mismo que una taza de caf&#233; y obtienen el archivo completo, que incluye <a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/carlos-lehders-vida-loca-in-the-medellin">entrevistas exclusivas</a> con los mejores jugadores y <a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/mexicos-cartel-map-2024">mapas del territorio del c&#225;rtel</a> y ahora es un momento excelente para suscribirse, con tantas cosas sucediendo, y yo seguir&#233; de cerca los tumultuosos acontecimientos con informes en los que puede confiar.</em></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mexico's Beautiful World Cup]]></title><description><![CDATA[And England's hard-earned victory]]></description><link>https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/mexicos-beautiful-world-cup</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/mexicos-beautiful-world-cup</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ioan Grillo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:52:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!m5sW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F98b48c53-103f-4e25-9f3d-bae83b636834_1200x1600.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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this climactic battle at seven-thousand feet. (The rest of the games are in Canada and the United States, where it&#8217;s getting spicy with President Trump intervening over a red card).  </p><p>Some people had expressed concern that if England won, its fans could be in danger of getting beaten up in Mexico. I personally wondered how Mexicans would react if their fantastic run was toppled, thinking back to England losses when brokenhearted supporters rioted in the center of London. But the opposite was true here. Mexican fans congratulated and hugged England supporters, who were blown away by the warm comradery. I was even surprised myself how magnanimous the response was on the street, which only increases my love for this country.  </p><p>It was an admirable end to a magic moment in Mexico with the World Cup unleashing a euphoria unlike anything I have seen in twenty-five years here. I went to the Angel of Independence after Mexico&#8217;s victory over Ecuador and the celebrations were electric with a million people making the streets a carnival, and surreal touches like partiers hanging a pi&#241;ata on a traffic light and a guy dancing with a dog in his arms wearing a Mexico jersey. There was also tragedy, with at least three people suffocating in the crowds.   </p><p>I joined in the World Cup party here, supporting the team of&#8230;</p><p><em>Sorry folks, you need to subscribe to read this story. But it&#8217;s only the price of a cuppa coffee and you get the complete archive including <a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/carlos-lehders-vida-loca-in-the-medellin">exclusive interviews </a>with top players and <a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/mexicos-cartel-map-2024">maps of cartel territory</a>. And now is a great time to subscribe with so much going on, and I will be following the tumultuous events with reports you can trust.</em></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[El auge y la caída del hooligan del fútbol inglés]]></title><description><![CDATA[Los aficionados brit&#225;nicos violentos ya no son lo que eran.]]></description><link>https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/el-auge-y-la-caida-del-hooligan-del</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/el-auge-y-la-caida-del-hooligan-del</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ioan Grillo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:08:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!m8kr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc87381e0-a11d-4349-9f87-9d297dd63550_2376x1458.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Los tribunales determinar&#237;an m&#225;s tarde que los organizadores gestionaron mal la asignaci&#243;n de entradas y no separaron adecuadamente a los aficionados en una estructura deportiva en ruinas, pero tambi&#233;n culparon directamente de la agresi&#243;n a los hinchas del Liverpool, que cargaron contra un grupo de la Juventus y los empujaron contra un muro fr&#225;gil. Cuando el muro se derrumb&#243;, 39 personas murieron tr&#225;gicamente, la gran mayor&#237;a italianas.</span></p><p><span>El suceso de Heysel provoc&#243; la prohibici&#243;n de que los clubes ingleses jugaran en Europa continental, y su nombre est&#225; grabado a fuego en la memoria de los aficionados al f&#250;tbol ingl&#233;s (e italiano). Tambi&#233;n marca un punto &#225;lgido del </span><em>hooliganismo</em><span> en Inglaterra y el momento en que el gobierno brit&#225;nico comenz&#243; a tomar medidas dr&#225;sticas contra &#233;l, con &#233;xito a la larga.</span></p><p><span>En el apogeo del </span>hooliganismo<span> en los a&#241;os ochenta, los aficionados ingleses eran tristemente c&#233;lebres en todo el mundo, a veces denominados la &#8220;enfermedad inglesa&#8221;, y semanalmente se produc&#237;an violentos enfrentamientos en estadios de Inglaterra, Gales y la liga escocesa.</span></p><p><span>Hoy, en cambio, las bandas de hooligans ingleses son una sombra de lo que fueron, y es poco probable que los aficionados mexicanos se preocupen por que alg&#250;n grupo violento cause disturbios en la Ciudad de M&#233;xico cuando Inglaterra se enfrente a El Tri en el imponente Estadio Azteca el domingo. Mientras tanto, los ultras del f&#250;tbol con fama de violentos han proliferado en otros pa&#237;ses como Polonia, Rusia, Argentina y Honduras.</span></p><p><span>La forma en que el gobierno brit&#225;nico sofoc&#243; el </span>hooliganismo<span> es una historia interesante, que involucra a polic&#237;as encubiertos, grandes sumas de dinero y un aumento de los poderes gubernamentales (algunos dicen que incluso un exceso de poder), la cual detallo a continuaci&#243;n. Sin embargo, a&#250;n persisten vestigios del </span>hooliganismo<span> ingl&#233;s, y algunos aficionados siguen protagonizando disturbios cuando la selecci&#243;n nacional pierde.</span></p><p><span>Un primer punto a entender sobre los hooligans ingleses es diferenciar entre las turbas espont&#225;neas de aficionados que se emborrachan y empiezan a pelear y las bandas de hooligans organizadas, conocidas como&#8230;</span></p><p><em><span>Lo sentimos, amigos, necesitan suscribirse para leer esta historia. 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rise And Fall Of The English Football Hooligan ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Violent British fans aren't what they used to be]]></description><link>https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-english</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-english</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ioan Grillo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 03:12:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!m8kr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc87381e0-a11d-4349-9f87-9d297dd63550_2376x1458.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Courts would later find that organizers badly handled how they allocated tickets and failed to properly separate supporters in a decaying sporting structure, but they also blamed the aggression squarely on Liverpool lads, who charged a group of Juventus and pushed them into a fragile wall. When the wall collapsed, 39 people tragically died, the vast majority Italian.</p><p>Heysel led to a ban on English clubs playing in mainland Europe and the name is drilled into English (and Italian) football followers. It&#8217;s also a marker as a high point in English hooliganism and the moment that the British government began seriously clamping down on it, which it was ultimately successful at. </p><p>At this hooligan zenith in the eighties, English fans were infamous round the globe, sometimes referred to as the &#8220;English disease,&#8221; and on a weekly basis, nasty clashes took place across grounds in England, Wales, and in the Scottish league. </p><p>Today, in contrast, England hooligan mobs are a shadow of their former selves and Mexican fans are unlikely to worry about any serious crew starting trouble in Mexico City when England faces El Tri at the daunting Azteca Stadium on Sunday. Meanwhile, football <em>ultras</em> with violent reputations have risen in other countries including Poland, Russia, Argentina and Honduras. </p><p>How the British establishment quelled hooliganism is an interesting story, involving undercover coppers, big money, and enhanced government powers (some say overreach), that I detail below. Yet there are elements of English hooliganism lingering, and some fans will still go on a rampage when the national squad loses. </p><p>A first point to understand about English hooligans is to differentiate between spontaneous mobs of fans who get drunk and start fighting and the organized hooligan gangs, known as&#8230;</p><p><em>Sorry folks, you need to subscribe to read this story. 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[La historia secreta de la mafia israelí del éxtasis]]></title><description><![CDATA[CrashOut narra la historia de los contrabandistas de MDMA desde Tel Aviv hasta &#193;msterdam y Brooklyn.]]></description><link>https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/la-historia-secreta-de-la-mafia-israeli</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/la-historia-secreta-de-la-mafia-israeli</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ioan Grillo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:49:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TOo8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7db2011-9b7f-43bc-8a98-fed938ed1e39_1440x1080.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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El episodio de hoy profundiza en la historia menos conocida de la mafia israel&#237; del &#233;xtasis. Aqu&#237; les dejamos enlaces a otros especiales de la serie:</span></em></p><p><a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/the-true-story-of-the-french-connection"><span>La verdadera historia de &#8220;The French Connection&#8221;</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/how-italy-tamed-the-mafia?utm_source=publication-search"><span>C&#243;mo Italia dom&#243; a la mafia</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/gang-murder-in-the-uk"><span>Asesinatos entre pandillas en el Reino Unido</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/speaking-with-russias-cyber-narcos"><span>Hablando con los ciber-narcos de Rusia</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/inside-asias-golden-triangle-today"><span>Dentro del Tri&#225;ngulo de Oro de Asia hoy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/gang-murder-in-marseilles"><span>Asesinato entre bandas en Marsella</span></a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a 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Acababan de pasar su luna de miel en la Ciudad de la Luz y, antes de abandonar su hotel en la Rue Sainte-Anne, les entregaron una maleta con un s&#237;mbolo hebreo. Les dijeron que estaban traficando diamantes, un acto moralmente ambiguo pero no del todo in&#233;dito; algunos jud&#237;os estadounidenses incluso crecieron escuchando historias de familiares que escond&#237;an gemas y joyas en las costuras de sus abrigos mientras hu&#237;an de la Europa ocupada por los nazis.</span></p><p><span>Pero cuando los agentes de aduanas abrieron su equipaje, encontraron 81.500 pastillas de &#233;xtasis estampadas con la letra S, de Superman. La pareja hab&#237;a sido, sin saberlo, mulas de drogas para una organizaci&#243;n criminal israel&#237;; en aquel entonces, los mayores importadores de &#233;xtasis (MDMA) a Estados Unidos, seg&#250;n el Departamento de Justicia.</span></p><p><span>Es una extra&#241;a historia de estudiantes de arte sospechosos, contrabandistas jas&#237;dicos reclutados en Nueva York, la escena rave global, el centro de narcotr&#225;fico holand&#233;s, los atentados de Tel Aviv y, por supuesto, las galletas de la discoteca. CrashOut reconstruye este s&#243;rdido fragmento de la historia de la guerra contra las drogas de principios de siglo con entrevistas a algunos de sus testigos.</span></p><p><strong><span>Parques de casas rodantes</span></strong></p><p><span>El sendero comienza en &#193;msterdam. Bueno, para ser exactos, el sendero comienza en la campi&#241;a del sur de los Pa&#237;ses Bajos, cerca de la frontera con B&#233;lgica, en parques de caravanas habitados por&#8230;</span></p><p><em><span>Lo sentimos, amigos, necesitan suscribirse para leer esta historia. Pero solo cuesta lo mismo que una taza de caf&#233; y obtienen el archivo completo, que incluye </span><a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/carlos-lehders-vida-loca-in-the-medellin"><span>entrevistas exclusivas</span></a><span> con los mejores jugadores y </span><a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/mexicos-cartel-map-2024"><span>mapas del territorio del c&#225;rtel</span></a><span>. Y ahora es un momento excelente para suscribirse, con tantas cosas sucediendo, y yo seguir&#233; de cerca los tumultuosos acontecimientos con informes en los que puede confiar.</span></em></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Secret History of the Israeli Ecstasy Mafia]]></title><description><![CDATA[CrashOut traces a tale of MDMA smugglers from Tel Aviv to Amsterdam to Brooklyn]]></description><link>https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/the-secret-history-of-the-israeli</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/the-secret-history-of-the-israeli</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ioan Grillo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:21:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TOo8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe7db2011-9b7f-43bc-8a98-fed938ed1e39_1440x1080.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Today&#8217;s installment gets into the lesser known history of the Israeli ecstasy mafia. Here are links to other specials in the series:</em></p><p><a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/the-true-story-of-the-french-connection">The True Story of &#8220;The French Connection&#8221;</a></p><p><a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/how-italy-tamed-the-mafia?utm_source=publication-search">How Italy Tamed The Mafia</a></p><p><a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/gang-murder-in-the-uk">Gang Murder in the UK</a></p><p><a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/speaking-with-russias-cyber-narcos">Speaking To Russia&#8217;s Cyber Narcos</a></p><p><a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/inside-asias-golden-triangle-today">Inside Asia&#8217;s Golden Triangle Today</a></p><p><a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/gang-murder-in-marseilles">Gang Murder in Marseilles</a></p><p><a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/hot-pink-speed-in-myanmar">Hot Pink Speed in Myanmar</a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" 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They&#8217;d just spent their honeymoon in the City of Lights, and before checking out of their hotel on Rue Sainte-Anne, they&#8217;d been handed a suitcase bearing a Hebrew symbol. They&#8217;d been told they were smuggling diamonds &#8211; morally murky but not entirely unprecedented; some Jewish Americans even grew up hearing of relatives hiding gems and jewellery in the seams of their coats while <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/blogs/125599/with-diamonds-in-the-seams-of-their-coats/">escaping</a> Nazi-occupied Europe.</p><p>But when customs officers opened their luggage, they found <a href="https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/trafic-decstasy-en-1999-prison-avec-sursis-pour-le-dernier-membre-de-la-jewish-connection-20-05-2025-AKWIUDHZR5EDLMIRVCHQELAFKA.php">81,550 ecstasy pills </a>stamped with the letter S, for Superman. The couple had been unwitting drug mules for an Israeli organized crime syndicate &#8211; at the time, the <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GOVPUB-J-PURL-LPS36663/pdf/GOVPUB-J-PURL-LPS36663.pdf">most prolific</a> importers of ecstasy (MDMA) into the United States, according to the DOJ.</p><p>It&#8217;s a strange story of suspicious art students, Hasidic smugglers recruited in New York, the global rave scene, the Dutch drug hub, Tel Aviv bombings. and of course, disco biscuits. CrashOut pieces together this sordid piece of drug war history from the turn of the millennium with interviews with some of those who witnessed it.</p><p><strong>Trailer Parks</strong></p><p>The trail begins in Amsterdam. Well, if we want to be accurate, the trail begins in the southern Dutch countryside, near the Belgian border, in trailer parks populated by&#8230;</p><p><em>Sorry folks, you need to subscribe to read this story. 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Estado de México - La gallina de los huevos de oro de la extorsión]]></title><description><![CDATA[Los c&#225;rteles se aprovechan de la riqueza del estado m&#225;s poblado de M&#233;xico.]]></description><link>https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/estado-de-mexico-la-gallina-de-los</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/estado-de-mexico-la-gallina-de-los</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ioan Grillo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 18:20:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YT5b!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53d9ae70-4022-46f9-96b7-5fc4e3c0c249_1280x720.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Sin embargo, en diciembre de 2023, acapar&#243; la atenci&#243;n nacional cuando los campesinos locales se enfrentaron a la mafia conocida como La Familia Michoacana, que exig&#237;a pagos por cada hect&#225;rea de cultivos y cada cabeza de ganado vendida.</span></p><p><span>La pelea estall&#243; en el campo de f&#250;tbol del pueblo cuando un grupo del c&#225;rtel lleg&#243; para cobrar y exigir un aumento en las cuotas. Como qued&#243; registrado en video, los campesinos se enfrentaron a los hombres armados principalmente con machetes e incluso hoces. Al final de la sangrienta batalla, cuatro aldeanos murieron a tiros, pero abatieron a diez miembros del c&#225;rtel, incluido un jefe local de la Familia apodado &#8220;El Payaso&#8221;.</span></p><p><span>Sin embargo, la heroica resistencia no puso fin a los problemas de los campesinos. En los d&#237;as siguientes, varios aldeanos desaparecieron, presuntamente secuestrados por sicarios del c&#225;rtel; al menos siete siguen desaparecidos m&#225;s de dos a&#241;os despu&#233;s. La Guardia Nacional de M&#233;xico construy&#243; una base en Texcapilla para impedir que La Familia llevara a cabo una masacre de venganza contra todo el pueblo, pero a&#250;n persiste la sensaci&#243;n de asedio.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3cTP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdee03e8c-9f25-4198-a792-0c252bcf20c0_2424x1620.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3cTP!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdee03e8c-9f25-4198-a792-0c252bcf20c0_2424x1620.png 424w, 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Son capaces de prenderle fuego a mi coche&#8221;.</span></p><p><span>Finalmente, accede a llevarme en un veh&#237;culo privado y llegamos a Texcapilla, pasando por un puesto de control militar. Dentro del pueblo, hablo con dos residentes que dicen que a&#250;n temen la ira del c&#225;rtel y que los aldeanos sospechan que cualquiera que entre podr&#237;a estar trabajando para la mafia. &#171;Ya no pagamos la cuota, pero es como si vivimos en una jaula&#187;, dijo un campesino que alimentaba a sus vacas en un campo a las afueras del pueblo. &#171;Aqu&#237; la gente tiene miedo de ir a cualquier parte&#187;.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VCT9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F023adb50-cf78-47d4-a214-bf82ac7235d4_1600x1200.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Los c&#225;rteles y las pandillas dirigen redes de extorsi&#243;n en todo el pa&#237;s, cobrando a empresas grandes y peque&#241;as lo que se conoce como &#8220;cobro de piso&#8221;. Esta pr&#225;ctica compite con el narcotr&#225;fico como una de las principales actividades delictivas de los c&#225;rteles, perjudica a millones de personas trabajadoras y asfixia la actividad empresarial.</span></p><p><span>El Estado de M&#233;xico, donde se ubica la localidad de Texcapilla, es el estado m&#225;s poblado del pa&#237;s, con m&#225;s de 17 millones de habitantes y un PIB de 2.3 billones de pesos, o 130 mil millones de d&#243;lares. Es un microcosmos de M&#233;xico, que abarca desde barrios pobres hasta suburbios de lujo en la expansi&#243;n urbana de la Ciudad de M&#233;xico, la ciudad industrial de Toluca y sus f&#225;bricas de autom&#243;viles, pintorescos pueblos tur&#237;sticos, pir&#225;mides y comunidades ind&#237;genas. Tambi&#233;n se ha convertido en un objetivo clave para la extorsi&#243;n, ya que grupos criminales provenientes de estados vecinos han llegado para aprovecharse de sus riquezas.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uN3n!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c9b559d-4562-411d-9221-5b0f0cbef8f8_2470x1314.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uN3n!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c9b559d-4562-411d-9221-5b0f0cbef8f8_2470x1314.png 424w, 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Vendedores de pollo en Toluca afirman que se ven obligados a pagar m&#225;s, lo que eleva el precio del pollo para los residentes. En 2023, cuatro trabajadores de un almac&#233;n de pollo fueron secuestrados y retenidos durante tres meses, supuestamente por un pago de extorsi&#243;n. Camioneros han bloqueado carreteras para protestar la </span>extorsi&#243;n<span>. Restaurantes en municipios lim&#237;trofes con la Ciudad de M&#233;xico se han quejado de que les cobran una cuota.</span></p><p><span>Tambi&#233;n afecta a ciudadanos particulares, y no solo a mexicanos. Un extranjero residente en la Ciudad de M&#233;xico me cont&#243; c&#243;mo &#233;l y su esposa, ciudadana mexicana, compraron un terreno en lo que cre&#237;an que era un desarrollo seguro y de alta gama en Edomex. Sin embargo, cuando comenzaron la construcci&#243;n, una camioneta lleg&#243; al lugar repleta de hombres armados con rifles.</span></p><p><span>Los delincuentes afirmaron trabajar para un sindicato y dijeron que el propietario deb&#237;a pagar una cuota de construcci&#243;n de 30.000 pesos (1.700 d&#243;lares). Sin embargo, al hablar con otros trabajadores de la construcci&#243;n en la zona, los identific&#243; como miembros de una facci&#243;n criminal que opera en esa parte de Edomex.</span></p><p><span>Tras pensarlo bien, accedi&#243; a pagar y entreg&#243; el dinero en efectivo; era una suma relativamente peque&#241;a por la construcci&#243;n de una casa que ahora vale unos 8 millones de pesos, o 500.000 d&#243;lares. &#171;Se ve como el costo de hacer negocios en M&#233;xico&#187;, dijo. &#171;Est&#225; bien. No te vas a enfadar mucho, vas a pagarlo. As&#237; que otras personas tambi&#233;n siguen construyendo&#187;.</span></p><p><span>Sin embargo, no se trata solo de un costo econ&#243;mico, sino de una amenaza que siembra el miedo en las familias. &#8220;Es real, est&#225; sucediendo de verdad y es peligroso. A veces no nos damos cuenta de lo cerca que estamos del peligro en M&#233;xico&#8221;, dijo. &#8220;Probablemente en el futuro considerar&#237;a opciones en Europa, porque da miedo&#8221;.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SLLc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F518f7027-273d-48df-bb37-f155d453dcdb_1600x1200.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SLLc!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F518f7027-273d-48df-bb37-f155d453dcdb_1600x1200.jpeg 424w, 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Sin embargo, la extorsi&#243;n se increment&#243; notablemente durante la d&#233;cada de 2010 y a&#250;n m&#225;s en la d&#233;cada actual. Esto se debe a varios factores, entre ellos la expansi&#243;n de las fuerzas paramilitares de los c&#225;rteles, que requieren financiaci&#243;n, y el cambio del secuestro para obtener rescate a la extorsi&#243;n, ya que esta &#250;ltima conlleva menor riesgo. El cambio de la hero&#237;na al fentanilo tambi&#233;n provoc&#243; una ca&#237;da dr&#225;stica en los precios del opio, lo que oblig&#243; a algunos grupos a buscar otras fuentes de financiaci&#243;n.</span></p><p><span>En Edomex operan diversas bandas criminales, entre ellas bandas de la Ciudad de M&#233;xico como La Uni&#243;n Tepito, mafias nacionales como el C&#225;rtel Jalisco Nueva Generaci&#243;n y grupos locales con nombres como La Choquiza y Los Masse. Pero la fuerza m&#225;s dominante en el estado es La Familia Michoacana, tambi&#233;n conocida como LFM, La Nueva Familia o simplemente La Familia.</span></p><p><span>La Familia se origin&#243; en el estado de Michoac&#225;n en la d&#233;cada de 2000, formada por un grupo de narcotraficantes de metanfetamina, entre ellos &#8220;El M&#225;s Loco&#8221;, El T&#237;o y El Chango M&#233;ndez. Sin embargo, en 2010, M&#225;s Loco tom&#243; el control del n&#250;cleo del c&#225;rtel y lo renombr&#243; como Caballeros Templarios, empujando a la gente de El Chango M&#233;ndez al otro lado de la frontera estatal, hacia Edomex. Estos remanentes conservaron el nombre de Familia, pero convirtieron al Estado de M&#233;xico en su basti&#243;n.</span></p><p><span>Con el paso de los a&#241;os, La Familia se expandi&#243; nuevamente hacia Michoac&#225;n y estableci&#243; una fuerte presencia en las monta&#241;as de Guerrero. Ahora se ha convertido en un poderoso c&#225;rtel regional que controla una parte significativa del centro de M&#233;xico y comanda fuerzas paramilitares que combaten cerca de la costa de Guerrero con drones armados. El gobierno estadounidense incluy&#243; a &#8220;La Nueva Familia Michoacana&#8221; en su lista de organizaciones terroristas extranjeras designadas (utiliz&#243; ese nombre para abarcar a todas las facciones de La Familia).</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IHBa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4d18582-0fdc-4bee-93c5-7724a77915e9_5760x3840.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IHBa!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4d18582-0fdc-4bee-93c5-7724a77915e9_5760x3840.jpeg 424w, 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Describi&#243; c&#243;mo lo reclutaron en su peque&#241;o pueblo, mayoritariamente ind&#237;gena, en Edomex, y c&#243;mo le pagaban 14.000 pesos (800 d&#243;lares) al mes por luchar como soldado raso en las monta&#241;as de Guerrero. El alcalde de su pueblo colaboraba con La Familia y, seg&#250;n &#233;l, muchos otros funcionarios estaban en su n&#243;mina. Fue capturado tras no poder seguir el ritmo de su unidad paramilitar, que se mueve como una guerrilla en las monta&#241;as, y lo dejaron vagar hambriento; desconozco si el grupo que lo retuvo finalmente lo dej&#243; vivir.</span></p><p><strong><span>El gobierno contraataca</span></strong></p><p><span>La extorsi&#243;n est&#225; poco documentada en M&#233;xico, por lo que es dif&#237;cil conocer su verdadera magnitud. Debido a la amenaza de violencia y asesinato, es probable que la gran mayor&#237;a de las v&#237;ctimas no acudan a la polic&#237;a. La organizaci&#243;n empresarial Coparmex estima que, por lo tanto, m&#225;s del 96 % de los casos de extorsi&#243;n nunca se denuncian.</span></p><p><span>Las cifras oficiales sobre extorsi&#243;n tambi&#233;n incluyen el cobro de piso, junto con el delito de delincuentes que llaman al azar a n&#250;meros de tel&#233;fono para exigir dinero (a menudo desde la c&#225;rcel) y obligan a las v&#237;ctimas, aterrorizadas, a depositarlo en cuentas bancarias. Si bien los autores de estas llamadas suelen mencionar nombres de c&#225;rteles, son simples imitadores que roban su reputaci&#243;n y no dan seguimiento. Este delito es molesto y muchas personas en M&#233;xico, incluy&#233;ndome a m&#237;, han recibido estas llamadas, pero es un problema menos grave que el cobro de piso.</span></p><p><span>En general, Coparmex afirma que en todo M&#233;xico las empresas pierden m&#225;s de 21 mil millones de pesos, o 1.200 millones de d&#243;lares, por extorsi&#243;n cada a&#241;o. Sin embargo, dada la poca fiabilidad de las cifras, esto parece una estimaci&#243;n aproximada. Adem&#225;s, considerando la flagrante extorsi&#243;n que se practica en amplias zonas del pa&#237;s, desde Tamaulipas hasta Chiapas, la cifra podr&#237;a ser mucho mayor.</span></p><p><span>La presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum ha reaccionado a la crisis de extorsi&#243;n y firm&#243; en noviembre una ley que impone penas m&#225;s severas a los extorsionadores (</span><a href="https://www.diputados.gob.mx/LeyesBiblio/pdf/LGPISDME.pdf"><span>Texto completo de la ley aqu&#237;</span></a><span>.) El secretario de Seguridad, Omar Garc&#237;a Harfuch, ha intensificado posteriormente las operaciones contra las bandas criminales, con redadas llevadas a cabo en Edomex en particular; una operaci&#243;n llamada Desconexi</span>&#243;<span>n en abril detuvo a m&#225;s de 100 presuntos extorsionadores.</span></p><p><span>La gobernadora del Estado de M&#233;xico, Delfina G&#243;mez, tambi&#233;n miembro del partido gobernante Morena, afirma que con estas detenciones los casos de extorsi&#243;n disminuyeron significativamente en los primeros meses del a&#241;o. Sin embargo, dado que de todos modos se denunci&#243; un porcentaje muy bajo, esto es dif&#237;cil de comprobar. La percepci&#243;n de inseguridad en Edomex sigue siendo alta: una encuesta gubernamental revel&#243; que el 75% de la poblaci&#243;n en Toluca, el 80% en Naucalpan y el 87% en Ecatepec se siente insegura.</span></p><p><span>Exigir un piso es una forma en que el crimen organizado impacta fuertemente a la gente com&#250;n. Una preocupaci&#243;n es que, si bien algunos c&#225;rteles parecen estar reduciendo el n&#250;mero de asesinatos, </span><a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/have-murders-really-gone-down-under"><span>como informo aqu&#237;</span></a><span>, es menos probable que reduzcan las extorsiones, ya que esto afecta sus finanzas. En la d&#233;cada de 2010, El Salvador se enfrent&#243; al problema de que las pandillas redujeron los asesinatos mientras manten&#237;an la extorsi&#243;n, hasta que el presidente Nayib Bukele finalmente opt&#243; por el encarcelamiento masivo.</span></p><p><span>Cuando el gobierno no garantiza la seguridad, la gente se toma la justicia por su mano, como hicieron los agricultores de Texcapilla. Hasta ahora, se ha tratado de un incidente aislado, pero la lucha de Sheinbaum contra la extorsi&#243;n debe dar resultados concretos para evitar que este tipo de violencia se extienda.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pnFf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3e19973d-ba29-40e3-a26b-eb5afd848780_1600x1200.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pnFf!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3e19973d-ba29-40e3-a26b-eb5afd848780_1600x1200.jpeg 424w, 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loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mexico State - Golden Goose For Extortion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cartels prey on the wealth of Mexico's most populous state]]></description><link>https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/mexico-state-golden-goose-for-extortion</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/mexico-state-golden-goose-for-extortion</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ioan Grillo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:10:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YT5b!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53d9ae70-4022-46f9-96b7-5fc4e3c0c249_1280x720.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Yet in December 2023, it came to national attention when local ranchers faced off the mob known as <em>La Familia Michoacana</em>, which was demanding payments for every hectare of crops they raised and every head of cow they sold. </p><p>The fight erupted on the village football pitch when a cartel crew came to collect and made demands for a hike in fees. As was captured <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTxZSInbeRA">on video</a>, the farmers went against the gunmen while mostly just wielding machetes and even sickles. By the end of the bloody battle, four villagers were shot dead but they hacked down ten cartel operatives, including a local Familia boss nicknamed &#8220;<em>El Payaso</em>&#8221; or &#8220;The Clown.&#8221;</p><p>The heroic stand didn&#8217;t end problems for the farmers, however. In the following days, various villagers disappeared, presumed to be kidnapped by cartel gunmen; at least seven are still missing more than two years later. Mexico&#8217;s National Guard built a base in Texcapilla to prevent the Familia carrying out a revenge massacre on the entire village, yet there is still a sense of siege. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3cTP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdee03e8c-9f25-4198-a792-0c252bcf20c0_2424x1620.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3cTP!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdee03e8c-9f25-4198-a792-0c252bcf20c0_2424x1620.png 424w, 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They are capable of torching my car.&#8221; </p><p>Eventually, he agrees to take me in a private vehicle and we reach Texcapilla passing through an army check point. Inside the village, I speak to a pair of residents who say they still fear the wrath of the cartel and villagers are suspicious that anybody coming in could be working for the mob. &#8220;We are not paying the quota anymore but it&#8217;s like we are living in a cage,&#8221; said a farmer who was feeding his cows on a field on the outskirts of the village. &#8220;People here are scared to go anywhere.&#8221;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VCT9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F023adb50-cf78-47d4-a214-bf82ac7235d4_1600x1200.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Cartels and gangs run extortion rackets across the country, charging businesses large and small what is known as <em>&#8220;cobro de piso,&#8221;  </em>which translates literally as &#8220;floor charge.&#8221; This now competes with drugs as a top racket of cartels, hurts millions of hardworking people and hammers enterprise. </p><p>Mexico State, where the village of Texcapilla is located, is the most populous state in the country with over 17 million residents and <a href="https://desarrolloeconomico.edomex.gob.mx/sites/desarrolloeconomico.edomex.gob.mx/files/files/Portal%202026/Mayo/INDICADORES%20ECON%C3%93MICOS%2021%20DE%20MAYO%202026.pdf">a GDP of </a>2.3 trillion pesos, or $130 billion. It&#8217;s a microcosm of Mexico, incorporating poor barrios and luxury suburbs in the Mexico City urban sprawl, the industrial city of Toluca and its car factories, picturesque tourist towns, pyramids and indigenous villages. It has also become a key target for extortion as gangsters have pushed in from surrounding states to target its riches. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uN3n!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c9b559d-4562-411d-9221-5b0f0cbef8f8_2470x1314.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uN3n!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c9b559d-4562-411d-9221-5b0f0cbef8f8_2470x1314.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uN3n!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c9b559d-4562-411d-9221-5b0f0cbef8f8_2470x1314.png 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In 2023, four workers at a chicken warehouse <a href="https://grupoanimal.mx/estados/localizan-trabajadores-bodega-pollo-toluca">were kidnapped </a>and held for three months, reportedly over an extortion payment. Truck drivers <a href="https://www.milenio.com/comunidad/bloqueo-en-edomex-16-junio-transportistas-denuncian-extorsion">have blocked roads</a> over shakedowns. Restaurants in municipalities bordering Mexico City have complained <a href="https://www.milenio.com/negocios/sigue-extorsion-en-zona-oriente-de-edomex-canirac">of being charged</a> the quota.</p><p>It also affects private citizens and not only Mexicans. A foreigner living in Mexico City described to me how he and his wife, a Mexican citizen, purchased land in what they believed was a safe high-end development in Edomex. However, when they began construction, a van rolled up to the site packed with guys with rifles. </p><p>The thugs made the claim they worked for a union and said the owner had to pay a construction fee of 30,000 pesos ($1,700). However, talking to others building in the area, he identified them as being from a criminal faction that operates in that part of Edomex. </p><p>After consideration, he agreed to pay and handed over the money in cash; it was a relatively small fee for building a house now worth about 8 million pesos, or $500,000. &#8220;You look at it as the cost of doing business in Mexico,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s just about okay. You are not going to be too pissed off about it, you are going to pay it. So other people keep building as well.&#8221;</p><p>However, it&#8217;s not only a financial cost but a threat that spreads fear in families. &#8220;It&#8217;s real and it&#8217;s actually happening and it&#8217;s dangerous. Sometimes we don&#8217;t realize how close we are to danger in Mexico,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I would probably be thinking in the future about options in Europe, because it <em>is</em> scary.&#8221;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SLLc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F518f7027-273d-48df-bb37-f155d453dcdb_1600x1200.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SLLc!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F518f7027-273d-48df-bb37-f155d453dcdb_1600x1200.jpeg 424w, 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>Cartels Pushing In</strong></p><p>Cartels first began collecting <em>cobro de piso</em> in parts of Mexico during the 2000s, expanding on how they extracted fees from criminal enterprises, such as charging drug dealers or human smugglers. However, extortion really increased during the 2010s and then even more so this decade. This is for various reasons, including an expansion of cartel paramilitary forces, which need to be paid for, and a shift from kidnapping for ransom to extortion, as the latter is lower risk. The switch from heroin to fentanyl also caused a crash of opium prices that pushed some groups to seek other funds. </p><p>A number of mobs operate in Edomex, <a href="https://www.milenio.com/policia/narcotrafico/mapa-carteles-bandas-edomex-2026-segun-fgjem">including</a> gangs from Mexico City like La Uni&#243;n Tepito, national mafias such as the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and local crews with names like La Choquiza and Los Masse. But the most dominant force in the state is La Familia Michoacana, also known as LFM, La Nueva Familia, or simply the Familia.</p><p>The Familia originated in the state of Michoac&#225;n in the 2000s, formed by a crew of meth traffickers including &#8220;El M&#225;s Loco,&#8221; (The Maddest One), El Tio (The Uncle) and El Chango M&#233;ndez (Monkey M&#233;ndez). However, in 2010, M&#225;s Loco took over the core of the cartel and renamed it as the Caballeros Templarios, or Knights Templar, pushing Monkey M&#233;ndez&#8217;s people over the state border into Edomex. These remnants kept the name Familia but turned Mexico State into their bastion.  </p><p>Over the years, the Familia expanded back into Michoac&#225;n and created a big presence over the mountains in Guerrero. It&#8217;s now become a powerful regional cartel controlling a significant chunk of central Mexico, and commands paramilitary forces fighting near the Guerrero coast with weaponized drones. The U.S. government included &#8220;La Nueva Familia Michoacana&#8221; on <a href="https://www.state.gov/designation-of-international-cartels">its list of</a> designated foreign terrorist organizations (it used that name to cover all factions of the Family).  </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IHBa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4d18582-0fdc-4bee-93c5-7724a77915e9_5760x3840.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IHBa!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4d18582-0fdc-4bee-93c5-7724a77915e9_5760x3840.jpeg 424w, 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He described being recruited in his largely indigenous small town in Edomex and being paid 14,000 pesos ($800) a month to fight as a foot soldier in the mountains of Guerrero. The mayor in his small town worked with the Familia and it has many other officials on its payroll, he said. He was captured after he failed to keep up with his paramilitary unit, which moves like a guerilla troop in the mountains, and was wandered starving; I don&#8217;t know if the crew who held him ultimately let him live.   </p><p><strong>The Government Fight Back</strong>   </p><p>Extortion is poorly documented in Mexico so it&#8217;s tough to know its true scale. Because of the threat of violence and murder, it&#8217;s likely the vast majority of victims don&#8217;t go to the police. The business lobby Coparmex <a href="https://www.milenio.com/negocios/perdidas-extorsion-ascienden-21-mmdp-septiembre-2025">estimates that</a> more than 96 percent of extortion is thus never reported. </p><p>The official numbers on extortion also include <em>cobro de piso</em> alongside the crime of thugs calling up phone numbers randomly to demand money (often making calls from prisons), and getting terrified respondents to deposit in accounts. While the perpetrators of these calls will often cite names of cartels they are just copycats stealing their reputation and don&#8217;t follow up. This crime is annoying and many people in Mexico, including myself, have had these calls, but it&#8217;s a less serious problem than the piso. </p><p>Overall, Coparmex <a href="https://www.diarioelindependiente.mx/2025/09/extorsion-provocaba-perdidas-por-21000-mdp-al-ano-coparmex">says that</a> across Mexico, companies lose more than 21 billion pesos, or $1.2 billion, to extortion every year. However, judging from how unreliable the numbers are this sounds like a broad &#8220;guesstimate.&#8221; Furthermore, considering how <em>cobro de piso</em> is happening so blatantly in large swathes of the country, from Tamaulipas to Chiapas, it could be a lot more. </p><p>President Claudia Sheinbaum has reacted to the extortion crisis and signed a law in November giving higher sentences to extortionists (<a href="https://www.diputados.gob.mx/LeyesBiblio/pdf/LGPISDME.pdf">full text of law here</a>). Security Secretary Omar Garc&#237;a Harfuch has subsequently ramped up operations against gangs, with raids carried out across Edomex in particular; <a href="https://www.nmas.com.mx/seguridad/narcotrafico/detienen-102-extorsionadores-edomex-tras-operativo-desconexion/">an operation named Desconexi&#243;n</a> there in April netted more than 100 alleged shakedown artists. </p><p>Mexico State governor Delfina G&#243;mez, who is also in the ruling Morena party, claims that with these arrests extortion cases <a href="https://www.milenio.com/policia/extorsion-en-edomex-reduce-17-entre-abril-mayo">went down significantly </a>in the first months of this year. However, as such a small percentage were ever reported anyway, this is tough to prove. Perceptions of insecurity in Edomex are still high, with <a href="https://www.inegi.org.mx/contenidos/saladeprensa/boletines/2026/ensu/ENSU2026_04_RR.pdf">a government survey finding</a> 75 percent in Toluca, 80 percent in Naucalpan, and 87 percent in Ecatepec, feel insecure. </p><p>Demanding piso is a way that organized crime heavily impacts regular people. A concern is that while some cartels seem to be dialing back the murder body count, <a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/have-murders-really-gone-down-under">as I report here</a>, they are less likely to reduce shakedowns as this impacts their finances. In the 2010s, El Salvador encountered the problem that gangs reduced murders while keeping up extortion, until President Nayib Bukele finally went for mass incarceration. </p><p>When the government fails to provide security, people take justice into their own hands, like the farmers of Texcapilla did. 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Respuesta probable: Sí, pero en menor medida de lo que afirma el gobierno.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Me sumerjo en el laberinto de estad&#237;sticas de homicidios de M&#233;xico.]]></description><link>https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/realmente-han-disminuido-los-asesinatos</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/realmente-han-disminuido-los-asesinatos</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ioan Grillo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:25:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4vac!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F86182498-37aa-4a39-9ffa-3cde52a87c79_6000x4000.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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rendir cuentas? Durante cinco a&#241;os, ha colaborado con un c&#225;rtel que domina su ciudad, el cual lo obliga a enviar fotos de cad&#225;veres e informes de escenas del crimen y puede ordenarle que presente ciertas conclusiones. Le pagan, pero lo intimidan para que trabaje para ellos. Ahora, con sesenta y tantos a&#241;os, quiere jubilarse, pero se lo impiden.</span></p><p><span>&#8220;Me gustar&#237;a salir de aqu&#237; e irme. Pero me conocen y quieren que me quede&#8221;, dice el m&#233;dico, con quien me re&#250;no en la Ciudad de M&#233;xico, de donde es originario.</span></p><p><span>El testimonio del m&#233;dico coincide con abundante evidencia sobre el control de los c&#225;rteles en zonas de M&#233;xico, como los registros de tel&#233;fonos celulares de un jefe de plaza, </span><a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/exclusive-inside-the-cell-phone-of?utm_source=publication-search"><span>que analizo aqu&#237;</span></a><span>. Estos mensajes confirman que los c&#225;rteles tienen a varios funcionarios en n&#243;mina y obtienen informes policiales, incluidas declaraciones de testigos. La acusaci&#243;n estadounidense contra el gobernador de Sinaloa, Rub&#233;n Rocha Moya, alega un control criminal generalizado sobre el aparato policial en ese estado.</span></p><p><span>La infiltraci&#243;n de los c&#225;rteles en el sistema judicial mexicano dificulta descubrir la verdad sobre el nivel de violencia y muertes. Sin embargo, existen otras preguntas dif&#237;ciles de responder. &#191;Con qu&#233; frecuencia los c&#225;rteles hacen desaparecer a sus v&#237;ctimas para que nunca se encuentren sus cuerpos? &#191;Con qu&#233; frecuencia los grupos paramilitares de los c&#225;rteles se llevan los cad&#225;veres de sus sicarios ca&#237;dos? Y, fundamentalmente, &#191;hasta qu&#233; punto el propio gobierno manipula las cifras, o como dicen en The Wire, &#8220;</span><em><span>jukes the stats</span></em><span>&#8221;?</span></p><p><span>Es importante tener esto en cuenta, ya que la presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum anunci&#243; lo que parece ser una noticia sumamente positiva: que los homicidios en M&#233;xico han disminuido un 46 por ciento desde que asumi&#243; el cargo en octubre de 2024. &#8220;Las acciones implementadas como parte de la Estrategia Nacional de Seguridad P&#250;blica han tenido tambi&#233;n un impacto en la reducci&#243;n de los homicidios en casi todo el pa&#237;s.&#8221;, dijo Sheinbaum, del partido Morena, en su conferencia de prensa matutina del martes.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Como dijo la senadora Mayuli Mart&#237;nez, del PAN: &#171;&#8220;Morena no combate la violencia, la maquilla.&#187; Acad&#233;micos y periodistas han escrito diversos art&#237;culos se&#241;alando fallos en la metodolog&#237;a gubernamental para el recuento de homicidios y destacando un aumento considerable de las desapariciones.</span></p><p><span>Sin embargo, al analizar los datos en profundidad, no creo que todo sean malas noticias. La evidencia indica que hay una reducci&#243;n real en el n&#250;mero de v&#237;ctimas mortales, aunque menor de lo que afirma Sheinbaum.</span></p><p><span>Manipular las cifras de homicidios no es algo nuevo; sin duda ocurri&#243; durante la presidencia de Enrique Pe&#241;a Nieto y probablemente se remonta a mucho tiempo atr&#225;s. Tampoco es exclusivo de M&#233;xico. La serie The Wire est&#225; ambientada en Baltimore, Maryland, donde el creador de la serie, David Simon, presenci&#243; como periodista c&#243;mo la polic&#237;a estadounidense manipulaba los registros.</span></p><p><span>Pero si bien algunos asesinatos pueden ocultarse, no todos. M&#233;xico cuenta con la ventaja de periodistas experimentados que acuden r&#225;pidamente a las escenas del crimen (la nota roja), lo que dificulta que la polic&#237;a encubra los delitos. Las familias en duelo celebran funerales para sus seres queridos.</span></p><p><span>Ernesto L&#243;pez Portillo, director del programa de seguridad p&#250;blica de la Universidad Iberoamericana, me comenta que las cifras de homicidios pueden considerarse una &#8220;aproximaci&#243;n&#8221; y uno de los diversos factores a tener en cuenta. Si bien L&#243;pez Portillo cuestiona el recuento oficial, opina que, en general, ha habido una reducci&#243;n en los homicidios.</span></p><p><span>&#8220;Todo indica que los homicidios han bajado por m&#250;ltiples motivos&#8221;, afirma L&#243;pez Portillo. (Pero) &#8220;no podemos auditar los sistemas de informaci&#243;n de las fiscal&#237;as, por lo tanto no tenemos posibilidad de validar y evaluar el error estad&#237;stico que pudiera haber&#8221;.</span></p><p><span>Cada asesinato representa una vida humana perdida, una familia que ha perdido a un ser querido, no solo un n&#250;mero en una hoja de Excel. Pero necesitamos analizar las cifras reales, y aqu&#237; me sumerjo en la mara&#241;a de estad&#237;sticas para evaluar nuestra situaci&#243;n actual. Examino las deficiencias en las cifras gubernamentales, considero estimaciones realistas de una disminuci&#243;n en los asesinatos y examino c&#243;mo el gobierno de Sheinbaum (y el secretario de Seguridad, Omar Garc&#237;a Harfuch) est&#225;n logrando reducir la cantidad de cad&#225;veres.</span></p><p><em><span>Lo sentimos, amigos, necesitan suscribirse para leer esta historia. Pero solo cuesta lo mismo que una taza de caf&#233; y obtienen el archivo completo, que incluye </span><a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/carlos-lehders-vida-loca-in-the-medellin"><span>entrevistas exclusivas</span></a><span> con los mejores jugadores y </span><a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/mexicos-cartel-map-2024"><span>mapas del territorio del c&#225;rtel</span></a><span>. Y ahora es un momento excelente para suscribirse, con tantas cosas sucediendo, y yo seguir&#233; de cerca los tumultuosos acontecimientos con informes en los que puede confiar.</span></em></p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have Murders Really Gone Down Under Sheinbaum? Likely Answer: Yes, But By Less Than The Government Claims]]></title><description><![CDATA[I dig into the spaghetti of Mexico's homicide stats]]></description><link>https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/have-murders-really-gone-down-under</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/have-murders-really-gone-down-under</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ioan Grillo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:07:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4vac!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F86182498-37aa-4a39-9ffa-3cde52a87c79_6000x4000.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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What type of wounds does the victim have? What weapon or object caused them? Were they self-inflicted or caused by an assailant? </p><p>However, he also has another element to consider. What do the crime bosses he has to answer to want on the piece of paper? For five years, he has liaised with a cartel that dominates his city, which gets him to send photos of corpses and crime-scene reports and can order him to file certain conclusions. They pay him, but he is under intimidation to work for them. Now he is in his sixties and wants to retire and they tell him not to. </p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;d like to get out of this and move away. But they know me and want to keep me in place,&#8221; says the doctor, who I meet up with in Mexico City where he is originally from. </p><p>The doctor&#8217;s testimony chimes with abundant evidence about cartel control in chunks of Mexico, such as cellphone records from a <em>plaza boss</em>, <a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/exclusive-inside-the-cell-phone-of?utm_source=publication-search">which I analyze here</a>. Those messages confirm cartels have a range of officials on payroll and obtain police reports, including witness statements. T<a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/bomb-drop-us-indicts-sinaloa-governor?utm_source=publication-search">he U.S. indictment</a> of Sinaloa governor Rub&#233;n Rocha Moya alleges widespread criminal control of the police apparatus there.  </p><p>Cartel infiltration of Mexico&#8217;s justice system makes it more difficult to find the truth about the level of violence and death. Yet there are other questions that are tough to answer. How often do cartels disappear victims so their bodies are never found? How frequently do cartel paramilitary squads haul away corpses of their fallen hit men? And centrally, how much is the government itself manipulating figures - or as they say in <em>The Wire, </em>&#8220;juking the stats&#8221;?   </p><p>This is important to consider as President Claudia Sheinbaum announced what would seem to be resoundingly good news: that murders in Mexico have gone down 46 percent since she took office in October 2024. &#8220;The actions implemented as part of the National Strategy of Public Security are having an impact in all the country,&#8221; Sheinbaum, of the Morena party, <a href="https://www.gob.mx/presidencia/es/articulos/version-estenografica-conferencia-de-prensa-de-la-presidenta-claudia-sheinbaum-pardo-del-16-de-junio-de-2026?idiom=es">said at her morning press conference </a>on Tuesday. </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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As Senator Mayuli Mart&#237;nez, <a href="https://www.pan.senado.gob.mx/2026/06/morena-maquilla-la-violencia-mayuli-martinez/">of the opposition PAN said</a>: &#8220;Morena doesn&#8217;t fight violence, it covers it up,&#8221; using the Spanish verb &#8220;<em>maquillar</em>,&#8221; the equivalent of &#8220;juking.&#8221; Academics and reporters have written various pieces pointing out flaws in the government methodology of counting murders and underlined a major rise of disappearances. </p><p>However, diving deep into the data, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s all bad news. Evidence indicates there is a real reduction in the body count, although less than Sheinbaum says.  </p><p>Manipulating murder numbers is not new; it certainly happened under President Enrique Pe&#241;a Nieto and likely goes way back. It&#8217;s also not exclusive to Mexico. <em>The Wire</em> is set in Baltimore, Maryland, where show creator David Simon saw as a journalist how U.S. cops cook the books. </p><p>But while some murders can be hidden, not all can. Mexico has the asset of hardened reporters who race to murder scenes (<em>la nota roja</em>), making it tougher for police to cover up crimes. Bereaved families hold funerals for their loved ones.  </p><p>Ernesto L&#243;pez Portillo, who heads the public security program at the Ibero university, tells me murder figures can be seen as an &#8220;approximation,&#8221; of the number of killings, and one of various factors to consider. While L&#243;pez Portillo raises questions about the official tally he thinks that overall there has been a reduction in murder. </p><p>&#8220;Everything indicates that homicides have gone down for multiple reasons,&#8221; L&#243;pez Portillo says. (But) &#8220;we can&#8217;t audit the system of information of the <em>fiscalias </em>[state prosecutor offices] so we haven&#8217;t got a possibility to validate and evaluate the statistical error there could be.&#8221;</p><p>Each murder is a human life gone, a family who lost a loved one, not just a number on an excel sheet. But we need to get into hard numbers and here I dig into the spaghetti of stats to make an assessment of where we are at. I look at holes in government figures; consider realistic estimates of a drop in murders; and examine how the Sheinbaum government (and Security Secretary Omar Garc&#237;a Harfuch) are managing to reduce the pile of corpses. </p><p><em>Sorry folks, you need to subscribe to read this story. 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Un Mundial de esperanzas, sueños (y avaricia)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Un saludo veraniego para los suscriptores]]></description><link>https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/un-mundial-de-esperanzas-suenos-y</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/un-mundial-de-esperanzas-suenos-y</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ioan Grillo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:06:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z_8R!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68c613e1-67a4-4235-89d7-9faccb0402d8_1306x936.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Varios aficionados suecos, hombres y mujeres, j&#243;venes y mayores, se detuvieron y la abrazaron.</p><p>He entrevistado varios de los madres y padres de los m&#225;s de 100.000 desaparecidos en M&#233;xico (muchos de ellos secuestrados por sicarios de los c&#225;rteles) y se percibe el dolor devastador que sienten. Si bien nada puede reparar el dolor de perder a un hijo, un abrazo al menos demuestra humanidad. Varios comentaristas mexicanos se&#241;alaron que se trata de una muestra de compasi&#243;n que las autoridades mexicanas no han demostrado.</p><p>El momento ejemplific&#243; lo que se supone que representa la unidad internacional de la Copa en medio de un torneo que tambi&#233;n muestra algunas de las pr&#225;cticas m&#225;s despiadadas de avaricia. El organismo rector del f&#250;tbol, &#8203;&#8203;la FIFA (supuestamente una ONG), ha sido objeto de cr&#237;ticas por los precios excesivos de las entradas, con una &#8220;fijaci&#243;n din&#225;mica&#8221; m&#225;s los porcentajes de la FIFA en el mercado de reventa, lo que ha provocado que los asientos para la final superen los 30.000 d&#243;lares. <a href="https://theconversation.com/the-ticket-price-fiasco-for-the-mens-fifa-world-cup-has-been-a-spectacular-own-goal-282532">Este art&#237;culo examina</a> si bien la fijaci&#243;n din&#225;mica de precios es buena en algunos casos, es mala cuando existe un monopolio en un evento hist&#243;rico. </p><p>La FIFA tambi&#233;n se lleva una parte de los Fan Fests, como el enorme que se celebra en la plaza del Z&#243;calo de la Ciudad de M&#233;xico, donde existe un monopolio en la venta de botanas y bebidas. Y los cambios importantes en el torneo, como su ampliaci&#243;n a 104 partidos en tres pa&#237;ses (M&#233;xico, Estados Unidos y Canad&#225; este a&#241;o) y la celebraci&#243;n de partidos con cuatro cuartos con pausas publicitarias, tienen que ver &#250;nicamente con el dinero.</p><p>En general, la FIFA est&#225; considerando hacer <a href="https://maaal.com/en/news/details/fifa-expects-13-billion/">unos descarados 13 mil millones de d&#243;lares</a> de los fondos para la Copa mientras son los pa&#237;ses anfitriones quienes se hacen cargo de la infraestructura. No es de extra&#241;ar que los aficionados abuchearan al presidente de la FIFA, Gianni Infantino, durante la ceremonia de inauguraci&#243;n en el Estadio Azteca de M&#233;xico (que la FIFA denomina Estadio de la Ciudad de M&#233;xico por motivos de <em>branding</em>).</p><p>Aun as&#237;, estoy disfrutando del torneo. Aqu&#237; en Ciudad de M&#233;xico, la gente enloqueci&#243; con la victoria de M&#233;xico en el partido inaugural contra Sud&#225;frica, y los bares, restaurantes y puestos callejeros est&#225;n repletos de gente viendo los partidos. Los mexicanos se est&#225;n esforzando mucho para que todos los visitantes del Mundial se sientan bienvenidos (la gente no para de preguntarme si estoy aqu&#237; por el Mundial, y yo digo &#8220;pues s&#237;&#8221;). Ver a los hinchas de M&#233;xico y Corea del Sur saltando juntos al ritmo de Gangnam Style es imposible no sonre&#237;r. Como escribi&#243; George Orwell sobre los proles en 1984: &#171;El f&#250;tbol, &#8203;&#8203;la cerveza y, sobre todo, las apuestas llenaban el horizonte de sus mentes. Mantenerlos bajo control no era dif&#237;cil&#187;. Pero, &#161;qu&#233; m&#225;s da!, la gente necesita un respiro divertido de toda la locura del mundo en 2026.</p><p>Para los nuevos lectores, esta entrega pertenece a la secci&#243;n trimestral de &#8220;saludos a los suscriptores&#8221;, con charlas informales, noticias y algo de recaudaci&#243;n. CrashOut est&#225; cerca de alcanzar los 14.000 suscriptores, as&#237; que si alguno de ustedes nos lee pero no est&#225; en la lista, &#161;suscr&#237;banse gratis y ay&#250;dennos a lograrlo! Mientras tanto, son los suscriptores de pago quienes hacen posible este proyecto; si les encanta el bolet&#237;n y est&#225;n pensando en suscribirse, an&#237;mense y sean los mejor informados, ya que se avecinan grandes cambios en la situaci&#243;n del narco y los c&#225;rteles entre Estados Unidos y M&#233;xico.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.crashoutmedia.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Este &#250;ltimo trimestre estuvo lleno de acontecimientos importantes, incluidas las muertes <a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/cia-deaths-part-of-wider-push-into">de dos agentes de la CIA en M&#233;xico</a> (lo cual es solo la punta del iceberg de las operaciones encubiertas aqu&#237;) <a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/bomb-drop-us-indicts-sinaloa-governor">y la acusaci&#243;n de Estados Unidos contra el gobernador de Sinaloa, Rub&#233;n Rocha Moya</a>y otros nueve exfuncionarios y funcionarios en activo (y habr&#225; m&#225;s casos como este). 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Si quieres saber c&#243;mo buscar y encontrar historias en el archivo de CrashOut desde 2022, <a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/how-to-use-research-tools-in-crashout">entonces, aqu&#237; te explicamos c&#243;mo hacerlo.</a></p><p><strong>Trabajo de suscriptores</strong></p><p>Jacob Shapiro presenta un excelente podcast que &#8220;explora la pol&#237;tica y los asuntos globales, la econom&#237;a, los mercados, la tecnolog&#237;a, la historia y la cultura a trav&#233;s de extensas conversaciones con analistas de todo el mundo.&#8221; Me invit&#243; al programa y disfrut&#233; mucho la charla. Puedes escucharlo <a href="https://player.captivate.fm/episode/98d47ca3-e025-419e-8eb6-4587c2342c0a">a ello aqu&#237;</a> o busca el Jacob Shapiro Podcast.</p><p>Wigan elabor&#243; &#8203;&#8203;este gr&#225;fico muy &#250;til sobre las incautaciones de drogas en Estados Unidos.</p><p><a href="https://theusaindata.pythonanywhere.com/drug_seizures">https://theusaindata.pythonanywhere.com/drug_seizures</a></p><p>Como dice Wigan, &#8220;Es interesante que las tendencias de incautaci&#243;n de la mayor&#237;a de las principales clases de drogas ilegales muestren una tendencia similar de disminuci&#243;n en los &#250;ltimos 3 a&#241;os&#8221;.</p><p>La periodista Marcela Turati y su equipo en Quinto Elemento Lab hicieron un incre&#237;ble trabajo period&#237;stico extenso (en espa&#241;ol) sobre los esclavos del cartel en la Sierra Tarahumara; p<a href="https://elpais.com/mexico/2026-05-28/esclavos-en-la-sierra-tarahumara-sobrevivir-a-los-campos-de-trabajo-forzado-del-narco.html">uedes leerlo aqu&#237;.</a></p><p>Gracias a todos de quienes aprend&#237; en la secci&#243;n de comentarios este trimestre, como siempre, y disfruto mucho de las charlas (excepto en las pocas ocasiones en que la gente lanza insultos, &#161;tranquilos, hermanos!). Un saludo especial a Gregorio (nuestro Hunter S. Thomson), Bobby X, Paul Grill, Paul Soto, Tom Johnston (y sus grandes intervenciones), Kevin Spence (espero que el juego haya ido bien), Joe Schmoo, Diego MF, Mags Magee, David Cashion, K Sheffield, Mike Chavarria, Wigan, Andrew Paxman, Francisco Arcaute, JB Fuller, Carmen Amato, Keoki Skinner, The Gang World, Stevie Abbott, Dave Wertz, Christopher y familia en Upstate SC, Daniel Helkenn, James Shirley, DC Reade, Aurelie Juliette, Matt, Steven, N&#233;stor Jacobo, JamieR, LeeHamMX, Mar a Man, Totally Fried (yo tambi&#233;n), y sin olvidar a Butter.</p><p><strong>Estampas de Mencho y mascotas de animales</strong></p><p>Descubr&#237; que algunos chavos de la escuela de la Ciudad de M&#233;xico llamaban a este jugador neozeland&#233;s Ryan Thomas, &#8220;El Mencho&#8221;, en referencia al narco (supuestamente) ca&#237;do. Es triste que esos sean los t&#233;rminos que usan los ni&#241;os, pero se puede apreciar la similitud. 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loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A World Cup of Hopes, Dreams (and Money Grabbing)]]></title><description><![CDATA[A summer shout to subscribers]]></description><link>https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/a-world-cup-of-hopes-dreams-and-money</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/a-world-cup-of-hopes-dreams-and-money</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ioan Grillo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:47:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z_8R!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F68c613e1-67a4-4235-89d7-9faccb0402d8_1306x936.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Various Swedish fans, men and women, young and old, stopped and hugged her. </p><p>I&#8217;ve interviewed many of the mothers and fathers of the more than 100,000 missing in Mexico (many who were dragged away by cartel gunmen) and you feel them carry a devastating pain. While nothing can repair the hurt of losing a child, an embrace at least shows humanity. Several Mexican commentators pointed out it was a sympathy that Mexican officials have failed to show. </p><p>The moment exemplified what the international unity of the Cup is meant to be about amid a tournament that also shows some of the most ruthless money grabbing. The football governing body FIFA (supposedly an NGO) has come under widespread criticism for excessive ticket prices, with &#8220;dynamic pricing&#8221; plus FIFA cuts on the resell market seeing seats at the final top $30,000. (<a href="https://theconversation.com/the-ticket-price-fiasco-for-the-mens-fifa-world-cup-has-been-a-spectacular-own-goal-282532">This piece examines</a> how while dynamic pricing is good in some settings it&#8217;s bad when there is a monopoly on a heritage event). FIFA also gets a cut from the Fan Fests, like the vast one in Mexico City&#8217;s Zocalo plaza, where there is a monopoly on snack sales. And major changes to the tournament, expanding it to 104 games in three countries (Mexico, the USA and Canada this year) and having games with four quarters with ad breaks, are all about the <em>dinero. </em></p><p>Overall, FIFA is looking at making <a href="https://maaal.com/en/news/details/fifa-expects-13-billion/">a cheeky $13 billion</a> from the Cup while the host countries foot the bill for infrastructure. No wonder fans at the opening ceremony in Mexico&#8217;s Azteca Stadium (which FIFA calls the Mexico City Stadium for branding reasons) booed FIFA president Gianni Infantino. </p><p>Still, I&#8217;m enjoying the tournament. Here in Mexico City, people went crazy for Mexico&#8217;s opening win against South Africa and bars, restaurants and good ol&#8217; street stalls are packed with people watching games. Mexicans are making a big effort for all the World Cup visitors to feel welcome (people keep asking me if I am here for the Cup, and I say &#8220;sure.&#8221;) Scenes of Mexico and South Korea fans jumping up and down together to Gangnam Style can&#8217;t help put a smile on your face. As George Orwell wrote of The Proles in <em>1984</em>: &#8220;Football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.&#8221; But sod it, people need a fun break from all the craziness of the world in 2026. </p><p>For any new readers, this installment is from the quarterly &#8220;shouts to subscribers,&#8221; with informal chat, news and some tin rattling. CrashOut is close to hitting 14,000 subscribers overall, so if any read but aren&#8217;t on the list then please whack those keys for free and push us over the line. Meanwhile, it&#8217;s the hardcore select who are the paid subscribers that make it happen; if you are loving the newsletter and thinking about coming on board then take that plunge and be the best informed in the room as big things are coming in the U.S.-Mexico drug and cartel situation.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.crashoutmedia.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>This last quarter was filled with some major developments including the deaths <a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/cia-deaths-part-of-wider-push-into">of two CIA agents in Mexico</a> (which is only the tip of the iceberg of covert ops here) <a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/bomb-drop-us-indicts-sinaloa-governor">and the U.S. indictment of Sinaloa Governor Rub&#233;n Rocha Moya </a>and nine other former and active officials (and there are more of these cases to come). We also published about t<a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/mexico-hammers-fentanyl-while-us">he thankful decline in U.S. overdose deaths</a>, an exclusive with Juan Alberto Cedillo <a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/exclusive-historic-fbi-report-on">on the FBI files</a> on the murder Tec de Monterrey founder Eugenio Garza Sada, and we welcomed on board Stephen Woodman with this <a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/guadalajara-world-cup-venue-city">great piece on</a> crime in the cultural capital of Guadalajara. If you want to know how to search and find stories in the CrashOut archive back to 2022, <a href="https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/how-to-use-research-tools-in-crashout">then here is how to do it.</a></p><p><strong>Subscriber Work</strong></p><p>Jacob Shapiro runs a great podcast that &#8220;explores global politics and affairs, economics, markets, technology, history, and culture through his wide-ranging discussions with analysts from across the world.&#8221; He invited me on the show and I really enjoyed the chat. You can listen <a href="https://player.captivate.fm/episode/98d47ca3-e025-419e-8eb6-4587c2342c0a">to it here</a> or search for The Jacob Shapiro Podcast. </p><p>Carmen Amato has a new book out in her Detective Emilia Cruz series set in Acapulco. The ebook of Dragon Cartel #10 rolled out first on all platforms with paperback on 30 June. <a href="https://carmenamato.net/new-book-release-dragon-cartel-police-procedural/">You can find more here.</a></p><p>Wigan plotted this highly useful graph on drug seizures in the United States. </p><p><a href="https://theusaindata.pythonanywhere.com/drug_seizures">https://theusaindata.pythonanywhere.com/drug_seizures</a></p><p>As Wigan says, &#8220;It's interesting that seizure trends of most major classes of illegal drugs show a similar trend of decreasing over the past 3 years.&#8221;</p><p>Journalist Marcela Turati and her team at Quinto Elemento Lab did an incredible piece of long form journalism (in Spanish) about slaves of the cartel in the Sierra Tarahumara, which <a href="https://elpais.com/mexico/2026-05-28/esclavos-en-la-sierra-tarahumara-sobrevivir-a-los-campos-de-trabajo-forzado-del-narco.html">you can read here. </a> </p><p>Thanks to everyone that I learned from in the comments section this quarter as always and I really enjoy the chats (except in the few occasions people throw insults - chill my brothers!). Special shouts to Gregorio (our Hunter S. Thomson), Bobby X, Paul Grill, Paul Soto, Tom Johnston (and his great interventions), Kevin Spence (hope the game went well), Joe Schmoo, Diego MF, Mags Magee, David Cashion, K Sheffield, Mike Chavarria, Wigan, Andrew Paxman, Francisco Arcaute, JB Fuller, Carmen Amato, Keoki Skinner, The Gang World, Stevie Abbott, Dave Wertz, Christopher and family in Upstate SC, Daniel Helkenn, James Shirley, DC Reade, Aurelie Juliette, Matt, Steven, N&#233;stor Jacobo, JamieR, LeeHamMX, Mar a Man, Totally Fried (I am too), and not to forget Butter. </p><p><strong>Mencho Sticker and Animal Mascots</strong></p><p>I discovered that some school kids in Mexico City were calling this New Zealand player Ryan Thomas, &#8220;El Mencho,&#8221; after the (reportedly) fallen drug lord. It&#8217;s sad that that is what kids&#8217; references are but you can see the similarity. (Mexican media picked up <a href="https://www.periodicocentral.mx/deportes/surge-el-mencho-del-mundial-2026-ninos-mexicanos-confunden-a-futbolista-neozelandes-con-el-narcotraficante/487880/">on the story here</a>). </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W2ws!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F70be0c05-b594-4e94-ad80-432261aa421a_1424x1036.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W2ws!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F70be0c05-b594-4e94-ad80-432261aa421a_1424x1036.png 424w, 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stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>On the day the World Cup kicked off, I did some live TV interviews from a community Fan Fest, which was a lot of fun, and met these two Mexican fans named Bruno and Luca.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!695F!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9699979e-58bd-47fd-94b9-2573b25ff705_1600x1200.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Cute as they are, however, they don&#8217;t compete for publicity with Mexico&#8217;s favorite mascot, Merlin the duck, who has rocketed to superstar status in Mexico.</p><p>Enjoy the summer months my friends, and if you like football, good luck with your team, cheering along with the tribe, and &#8220;filling up the horizon of the mind&#8221; - I am sure 2026 has some serious business waiting for us when this is over.  </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Copyright Ioan Grillo and CrashOut Media 2026</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MLO-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60307c9b-f476-4a5d-845e-9a597acaca62_500x500.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Cerca de all&#237;, maestros fr&#237;en tacos de cerdo bajo una lona, &#8203;&#8203;tras haber sido desalojados de la plaza del Z&#243;calo el mes pasado para que el gobierno pudiera construir una zona de &#8220;fan fest&#8221; para el inicio del Mundial el jueves. Dos turistas ingleses con camisetas verdes de la selecci&#243;n mexicana deambulan confundidos desde el metro, plagado de obras, hasta la barricada met&#225;lica, y luego se sientan en un restaurante al aire libre para tomar cervezas de un litro a media tarde.</p><p>En otro lado de la extensa capital, madres de hijos desaparecidos cuelgan mantas de un puente con los rostros de sus seres queridos. Mientras tanto, en la autopista sur que conduce a la ciudad, la polic&#237;a detiene autobuses de estudiantes de la escuela de formaci&#243;n de maestros de Ayotzinapa, famosa por la desaparici&#243;n de 43 estudiantes en 2014. La polic&#237;a afirma que el lunes encontraron 59 explosivos caseros en los autobuses (aunque se asemejan m&#225;s a c&#243;cteles molotov que a bombas) y culpan a dos estudiantes a quienes apodan &#8220;El Coquillo&#8221; y &#8220;El Mamado&#8221;.</p><p>Para colmo de la euforia, manifestantes, entre ellos anarquistas, pintaron grafitis contra el Mundial. Mientras tanto, los due&#241;os de bares expresaron su indignaci&#243;n porque la FIFA exige una licencia especial para transmitir los partidos al p&#250;blico.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wTE9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5862b745-85ca-4efd-9319-e12846039f10_1600x1200.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wTE9!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5862b745-85ca-4efd-9319-e12846039f10_1600x1200.jpeg 424w, 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Aun as&#237;, la presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum y la alcaldesa Clara Brugada esperaban menos caos cuando el silbato d&#233; inicio a la Copa Mundial a la 1 p. m. del jueves en el Estadio Azteca (que un banco renombr&#243; como Estadio Banorte y luego la FIFA renombr&#243; como Estadio Ciudad de M&#233;xico).</p><p>Para aliviar el caos vehicular y despejar las calles para los aficionados extranjeros que salen del aeropuerto, el gobierno ha declarado el jueves d&#237;a festivo escolar y ha pedido a los empleados que trabajen desde casa esta semana. Sin embargo, los manifestantes han anunciado m&#225;s marchas, incluso para la ma&#241;ana del jueves, con maestros, trabajadores petroleros, agricultores, camioneros, trabajadores de salud y madres  buscadoras de sus hijos planeando partir desde diferentes puntos para dirigirse al estadio.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!k16d!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F829322d4-2d03-4994-99f1-4aee6baebe87_1600x1200.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!k16d!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F829322d4-2d03-4994-99f1-4aee6baebe87_1600x1200.jpeg 424w, 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