The Contorted Case of the Fall of Mexico’s Most Powerful Drug Lord
Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was taken into custody by US officials in New Mexico on July 25. We still don’t really know what happened. We might never know.
Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada was taken into custody by US officials in New Mexico on July 25. We still don’t really know what happened. We might never know.
It’s a well-known scene throughout the world: migrant families marching in the streets to demand their rights and seek a better life are brutally repressed by state forces. Police wield billy clubs to attack men, women and children and enforce the message migrants and refugees have heard everywhere: “You are not welcome here”.
For the past year, Ciudad Juarez has been a flashpoint of the migrant and refugee humanitarian crisis gripping the U.S.-Mexico border. Now hundreds of other people-mainly women and children-are camped out at the international bridge, but this latest group of refugees is Mexican.