Robert Almonte: Last News

Soldiers have been deployed to patrol beaches in Cancun, Mexico, to protect holidaymakers as drug cartel violence spirals out of control.A 1,500-strong battalion from Mexico's National Guard appeared last Wednesday in the state of Quintana Roo, arriving in the tourist towns of Isla Mujeres, Solidaridad, Puerto Morelos and Tulum.It comes following cartel shootings on November 17 which claimed the lives of two female tourists, one from San Jose in California.The shooting led Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to introduce a Tourist Security Battalion in the National Guard. The move was "too little, too late", criminal expert Robert Almonte told the Daily Mail.

Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) – to the US to face trial.

Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) – the country’s two most powerful gangs – are currently waging war, with tensions particularly fraught in the central Mexican state of Zacatecas. It has witnessed a wave of horrifying violence – with a local police chief beheaded and dumped on a roadside by CJNG hitmen earlier this month.

El Chapo’s cartel – asserting their presence in a hotly contested state.

Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), which operates in at least 35 states across Mexico and Puerto Rico.Gonzalez – aka El 03 – has created two elite military units, El RR and El Grupo Delta, which are battling for territory in central Mexico with rival cartels.Under his watch, CJNG members have downed an army helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade, killed dozens of state officials, and has even been known to hang the bodies of victims from bridges to intimidate rivals.The gang's current head honcho is Nemesio 'El Mencho' Oseguera Cervantes, but former US federal marshal and cartel expert Robert Almonte has tipped Gonzalez to take his place in the near future - making Mexico's "most dangerous" cartel even deadlier.And Gonzalez has an