Co-founder of Jalisco New Generation drug cartel pleads guilty
BBC →In February, its members unleashed a wave of violence across 20 Mexican states after news spread that its leader, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, better known as "El Mencho", had died as a result of injuries sustained during his capture by Mexican security forces. Last year, the US President Donald Trump designated the CJNG as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO).
JURY FINDS JOSE OROZCO GUILTY OF SELLING DRUGS
Jose Orozco, said to be a cousin of Pascual Orozco, noted Mexican revolutionary leader, was found by a jury in federal court Wednesday afternoon guilty of a charge of selling narcotics. Punishment will later be assessed by Judge William R. Smith. Orozco took the stand in his own defence and outlined a long series of hardships which he claimed has befallen him since he crossed into the United States from Mexico. Court records were produced to show that Orozco was sentenced to 18 months at Leavenworth for aiding a revolutionary movement in Mexico but that he was later pardoned by President Woodrow Wilson. Witnesses used by the government testified that Orozco had often supplied them with morphine sulphate.
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Venustiano Carranza
Election of 1920 and assassination
Carranza fled Mexico City but was tracked down and assassinated in May 1920, ending both his presidency and the bloodiest phase of the Mexican Revolution. His killing marked the definitive collapse of the revolutionary government under which figures connected to Mexico's armed factions — including those entangled in cross-border criminal activity — had operated.
Wikipedia →Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act
The Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act was a 1922 act of the 67th United States Congress, also often referred to as the Jones-Miller Act. The Act led to the establishing of the Federal Narcotics Control Board (FNCB) to tightly oversee the import and export primarily of opiates, but also other psychoactive drugs like coca. The control board was created to better control what America was importing, to ban all recreational consumption, and to control the quality of what was being used for medical purposes.
Wikipedia →Assassination of Pancho Villa
On 20 July 1923, Villa was shot and killed in an ambush while visiting Parral, most likely on the orders of political enemies Plutarco Elías Calles and President Alvaro Obregón. Villa usually was accompanied by his large entourage of armed Dorados, or bodyguards, but on that day he had gone into town without most of them, taking with him only three bodyguards and two other ranch employees.
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