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Brandon Darby

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Director, Border and Cartel Chronicles Projects at Breitbart

I tell people's stories and sometimes fight for them. Director, Breitbart’s Border and Cartel Chronicles projects. [email protected]

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  • 1 week ago | breitbart.com | Ildefonso Ortiz |Brandon Darby

    The explosion happened Tuesday afternoon near the town of Los Reyes, Michoacan, an area between the borders of that state and Jalisco that Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) and Carteles Unidos are currently fighting over. The rival groups are fighting for control of lucrative drug trafficking routes into Mexico, as well as drug production areas. Both of those cartels have been labeled as foreign terrorist organizations by the U.S. government.

  • 1 week ago | breitbart.com | Ildefonso Ortiz |Brandon Darby

    The arrest took place late last week in the Mexican state of Guanajuato when local police officers from the town of Apaseo El Alto responded to an anonymous call and found a group of men illegally tapping into a fuel line. The men were being guarded by a squad of uniformed officers from Mexico’s National Guard. When the local officers arrived, several men at the site fled, leaving behind the federal officers and the tractor-trailer used to store the stolen fuel.

  • 1 week ago | breitbart.com | Ildefonso Ortiz |Brandon Darby

    This week, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the unsealing of a 29-count indictment against 15 members of a Houston-based drug ring accused of numerous drug trafficking and weapons charges. The group allegedly would move various quantities of drugs from South Texas to Houston and then distribute them, authorities claimed. Recently, authorities arrested most members of the group.

  • 2 weeks ago | breitbart.com | Ildefonso Ortiz |Brandon Darby

    In the lawsuit, professors Aje-Ori Agbese, Minhee Eom, and Wa-Lin Chang claimed that despite highly successful careers in Academia, each with various awards and recognitions, the leadership at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) passed them over for promotions and punished them for not being Hispanic and Spanish speakers. UTRGV LawsuitLawyers representing the three professors filed the lawsuit this week in federal court in McAllen, Texas.

  • 2 weeks ago | breitbart.com | Ildefonso Ortiz |Brandon Darby

    The CDN-Los Zetas carries out terrorist activity to intimidate U.S. citizens as well as Mexican communities, Treasury officials revealed in a prepared statement announcing the move. As Breitbart Texas reported, Los Zetas have complete control over Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, and operate in multiple Mexican States. In addition to drug trafficking and human smuggling, the cartel is behind acts of extortion, kidnapping, and murder.

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Brandon Darby
Brandon Darby @brandondarby
15 May 25

Family of Imprisoned Mexican Drug Lord ‘El Chapo‘ Flees to U.S. for Protection from Cartels https://t.co/ilPUkIfBvR

Brandon Darby
Brandon Darby @brandondarby
15 May 25

First Ever: USDOJ Files Terrorism Charges Against Sinaloa Cartel Members https://t.co/v5MRxwHjac

Brandon Darby
Brandon Darby @brandondarby
14 May 25

Mexico’s Gulf Cartel Continues Sending Gunmen to Steal Trucks in Texas https://t.co/2GH29SS0tp