Mexican Cartel Violence

Organized crime and drug cartels south of the border could soon see a swell of cash if a new bill passes through Mexico City's Congress next month, compelling the Central Bank to buy money of questionable origin.

While CJNG cartel remains the domineering force in its namesake state of Jalisco, its trail of terror is steadily proliferating across Mexico.

Three Mexican nationals with suspected ties to the violent Sinaloa cartel were charged in federal court Tuesday after U.S. agents discovered a massive stockpile of cash, drugs and ammunition at a San Diego truck yard just north of the Mexico border.

While Mexico is one of just three countries – alongside the United States and Guatemala – with the constitutional right to bear arms – citizens must travel from far and wide to this one place, wade through ceaseless red tape and waiting periods and are heavily restricted when it comes to what they can and cannot buy.

From nondescript buildings in the industrial nucleus of Wuhan, across wavy seas to dusty tented super laboratories in the heart of Mexico, and then across the jagged southwest border and dispersed like a wild bomb ripping through every crevice of the United States, the growing presence of Chinese drug lords and cartels below the border is one that is killing an unprecedented amount of Americans.

The cartel-led massacre reportedly killed nine people overall.

It started off like any other ordinary Monday morning and it all changed in an instance.

Authorities in northwest Mexico are searching for gunmen who ambushed a convoy carrying security forces, killing six police officers. At least two other people died.

They are yet to be designated a formal terrorist organization – but cartels south of the border are documented to now be augmenting arsenals of sophisticated weaponry to rival most fear-inducing militias on battlefields abroad.

Imprisoned Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzman admitted to fathering 23 children and that women are his only addiction during a 2016 interview, according to media reports.