Trump’s border policy is beginning to bear fruit
It is no longer so easy for the cartels to bring personnel, drugs and weapons across the border
Cartels
Tuesday
How the drug cartels are ‘diversifying’ into baby-trafficking
Many of the women were lured with promises of easy cash jobs during the final months of pregnancy
Inside the Cartel is not your average true-crime memoir
Martin Suarez’s storytelling is precise, even surgical. But it’s the content that burrows under the skin
Friday
Schrödinger’s covert action
Now Trump has announced it, is CIA covert action in Venezuela really covert?
Sunday
Will Trump go to war with the cartels?
The President has signed a secret directive to let the US military hunt drug cartels the same way it once hunted al-Qaeda
Friday
Is Colombia reverting to chaos?
Narco-terrorists brought down a police helicopter with a drone
Monday
Letters from Spectator readers, July 2024
Normandy, Philly and crushing the cartels
Wednesday
Biden’s faux border crackdown
Plus: A night of primaries & a state visit to France
Wednesday
The case for cartel wars
The southern border is collapsing. The only way to reestablish it is to make war on those who actually control it
Friday
Migrant mania comes to sanctuary cities
The border crisis is now taking over New York and Chicago. Will that change anything?
Americans are watching legal weed’s promise go up in smoke
More than a decade after Colorado became the first state to legalize marijuana in 2012, it is apparent that legalization has mostly failed based on the very criteria put forth by its champions
Friday
Why bombing Mexican cartels is a bad idea
Why would what failed to work in Colombia and Afghanistan succeed in Mexico?
Monday
The rise of avocado anxiety
The ubiquitous fruit is everywhere: in smoothies, on toast, served at breakfast, lunch and dinner, on t-shirts and all over social media
Sunday
How to stop the flow of guns south
Gunrunning has shot to the top of the US-Mexico agenda
Thursday
AMLO sides with the cartels
The old paradigm of the US-Mexico relationship is over
Wednesday
Mexico has become a failed narco-state
It’s time to treat the drug cartels like terrorist organizations they are
