By Olivier Acuña MEXICO CITY (Mexico Tribune).- Financial experts have predicted that Mexico will move up the ranks to become the eighth world’s economic power by the year 2050, when the Gross National Product (GDP) will have increased from $1.18 billion to $7 billion.. The main economic drive of growth in Mexico will be that…
By Olivier Acuña MEXICO CITY (Mexico Tribune).- I have to say I actually enjoy reading the different “experts” on drug trafficking that say things without even having ever been in Sinaloa. One thing is to be a researcher and even an expert on mafia and organized crime, and a whole different thing is having lived…
By Olivier Acuña For many years I was involved in investigating how drugs were being smuggled into the United States, and of course my work began in Culiacan, Sinaloa, the cradle of the vast majority of traffickers in Mexico. I was working on a major story that was to be published by Associated Press in…
By Olivier Acuña MEXICO CITY (Mexico Tribune).- Microsoft founder Bill Gates increased his fortune in 2013 and according to Forbes as of 2014 he is again the richest man in the world with a net worth of over $76 billion USD. This means that Mexican telecommunications tycoon Carlos Slim fell to second place after four…
By Olivier Acuña MEXICO CITY (Mexico Tribune).- Many years ago I was working on a story about drugtraficking that I was to sell to Associated Press per agreement with then Mexico Bureau Chief Nico Price and one day found out that Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman had held a competition with his friend and associate Ismael…
By Olivier Acuña MEXICO CITY (Mexico Tribune).- When reality surpasses fiction it really makes you wonder. This is the case of the arrest February 22, 2014 of the most powerful and most wanted criminal in the world, Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman, the Mexican drugtrafficker that was listed by Forbes to have a fortune well over one…
You can take this survey. Other media outlets are carrying out a similar poll and on average, 55% of respondents do not believe Joaquin “Chapo” Guzmán has been arrested. MexTrib/oab
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