As Europe’s largest ports clamp down on cocaine smuggling, traffickers are scrambling to find less-monitored routes — from West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea to secret river landing sites in Spain. Here’s what we know: occrp.org/en/feature/faq-why…

🇻🇪 | A town in Zulia was once home to so many Mexican drug trafficking brokers it earned the nickname “Sinaloa.” What caused those traffickers to retreat from the area? bit.ly/4qLlwt0

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Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel on patrol in Juventino Rosas, Guanajuato. Sent by an anonymous source.

Narco blockade reported in Villa Juarez, Navolato, Sinaloa. Source: @CafeNegro3

Narco blockades reported in El Ajuno, Michoacan

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✍️ #Jalisco #Teocaltiche: confirman que dos hombres asesinados eran originarios de #Zacatecas dominiopublico.com.mx/teocal…

Sicarios secuestraron y asesinaron a un periodista que había advertido que el cártel de los Cabrera planeaba robar las minas de oro para financiar su defensa ante la incursión del CJNG–Chapitos en el estado de Durango. La presidenta de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, y el gobernador de Durango, Esteban Villegas, no han reconocido públicamente el asesinato del periodista. Por su parte, Omar García Harfuch declaró que el gobierno federal no intervendrá en la investigación a menos que el gobierno estatal de Durango se lo solicite formalmente. El periodista Miguel Beltrán Martínez publicaba con frecuencia reportajes sobre política local y actividad criminal en Durango, un estado fuertemente controlado por los hermanos Cabrera Sarabia, aliados de la facción de Los Mayito Flaco del Cártel de Sinaloa. La página de Facebook de Miguel se llamaba La Gazzetta de Durango y su cuenta de TikTok era "capodgo7". El 21 de octubre de 2025, Miguel publicó un video en TikTok en el que hablaba sobre la detención de Leonardo Daniel Martínez Vega, alias “El Pato”, integrante del cártel de los Cabrera. Miguel dijo que la pérdida de El Pato debilitaría al grupo de los Cabrera y que la alianza CJNG–Chapitos había comenzado a apoderarse del territorio de los Cabrera en Durango. Mencionó específicamente la sierra y los municipios cercanos a la capital del estado como zonas donde el grupo rival ya había ganado presencia. Miguel reportó que, en un intento por reforzar a sus sicarios, el líder de los Cabrera, “José Luis Cabreras Sarabia, alias El 03, está ordenando y está participando directamente en el robo de oro en minas de la entidad.” Miguel fue visto con vida por última vez la mañana del 23 de octubre, cuando su hijo lo vio salir de su casa en la colonia Eucaliptos, en la capital del estado, rumbo al trabajo. En algún momento después, fue secuestrado por sicarios del cártel. El 25 de octubre, su cuerpo sin vida fue localizado a un costado de la autopista, cerca de Río Chico. Las lesiones que presentaba indicaban que había sido torturado mientras estaba cautivo. Junto a su cuerpo, los asesinos dejaron un narcomensaje que decía: “por andar levantando falsos a la gente de Durango.” Todo indica que nombrar directamente a José Luis Cabrera Sarabia como participante en el robo de oro en las minas de Durango fue lo que más enfureció al grupo de los Cabrera. Los grupos criminales llevan décadas extorsionando y robando a las empresas mineras, pero debido a que muchas de estas compañías son de capital extranjero, podría existir una sensibilidad especial por mantener el nombre real del líder del cártel fuera de estos delitos. Actualmente hay 76 minas de oro activas en Durango, y el estado es el tercer centro minero más importante de México. México sigue siendo el país más peligroso del mundo para los periodistas, fuera de las zonas de guerra activas. — Hitmen kidnapped and killed a journalist who warned that the Cabreras cartel were going to rob the gold mines to fund their defense against the incursion of the CJNG-Chapitos cartel into Durango. Mexico’s President Sheinbaum and Durango’s Governor Villegas have not acknowledged the murder of the journalist. And Harfuch has said the federal government won’t do anything to help investigate unless the Durango state government asks them to. The journalist Miguel Beltrán Martínez frequently wrote stories about local politics and cartel activity in Durango, a state which is heavily controlled by the Cabrera Sarabia brothers, who are allied with the Sinaloa Cartel - Mayito Flaco faction. Miguel's Facebook page was called La Gazzetta de Durango and his TikTok handle was @capodgo7. On October 21, 2025, Miguel made a TikTok video talking about the arrest of Cabreras cartel figure Leonardo Daniel Martinez Vega, alias “El Pato”. Miguel said the loss of Pato would weaken the Cabreras and that the CJNG- Chapitos alliance had begun to take over Cabreras territory in Durango. He specifically named Sierra mountains and the towns near the state capital as places where they had already gained a foothold. Miguel reported that, in an effort to reinforce their hitmen, Cabreras leader “José Luis Cabrera Sarabia, alias El 03, is ordering and directly participating in the theft of gold from mines in the state.” Miguel was last seen alive in the morning of October 23, by his son, who saw him leave their home in the Eucaliptos neighborhood of the state's capital to go to work. At some point after that, Miguel was kidnapped by cartel hitmen. On October 25, Miguel's dead body was found on the side of the freeway, near Río Chico. The injuries on his body suggested he had been held captive and tortured. The hitmen had left a narco message next to his body which read “for spreading lies about the people of Durango.” It's likely that naming Jose Luis Cabrera Sarabia as being directly involved in the theft of gold from Durango mines was the part of Miguel's video that upset the Cabreras the most. Cartel groups have been extorting and stealing from the mining companies for decades. But because the mining companies operating in Mexico are often foreign owned, there may be extra sensitivity around keeping the real name of the cartel boss away from the mining thefts. There are currently 76 gold mines in Durango and the state is Mexico's third largest mining hub. Mexico continues to be the deadliest country for reporters outside of active war zones.

Source: t.me/Zulucanal/9816

Video showing members of Chapo Isidro arming a drone likely around Badiraguato, Sinaloa. Source: Zulu (Telegram)

🚨🚨🚨Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) planned to assassinate Israel's ambassador to Mexico, Einat Kranz-Neiger, but the plot was foiled last summer by Mexican security services, according to U.S. and Israeli officials. My story on @axios axios.com/2025/11/07/iran-as…

Additional reporting below from yesterday’s incident. unotv.com/estados/chihuahua/…

Awesome thread and awesome work @LatAmMilMVMTs

Geolocation of the site of a possible narcotunnel on the Mexican side of the the US-MEX border. The tunnel is in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. It is currently being investigated to see if it connects to the US side of the border. (31.7598951, -106.4441480) Source: @AztecaNoticias

Ejecutan en Veracruz a Lázaro Francisco Luria, exalcalde de Chinameca dominiopublico.com.mx/ejecut…

Breaking: A CBP agent was shot at near the Bridge of America Port of Entry in El Paso, Texas. Reports of a massive law enforcement response at both sides of the border (Mexican and US) in response to this shooting. Being told that the agent was not hit and sustained no injuries per anonymous law enforcement official.

Photo is old but the report is new and it states the Chinook reentered Mexican airspace briefly again today.

A convoy of Los Tlacos (Cartel de la Sierra) on patrol in Guerrero. Source: @mexicannarcos