Due to increasing surveillance measures in the Mexico-U.S. border, new routes for arms smuggling have found their way to Mexico from the southern border with Guatemala and Belize, all the way from Nicaragua
Central America has become the outlet of Mexican organized crime for drug trafficking, money laundering, and human trafficking
The countries with more Mexicans arrested for drug-related activities are Peru, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Cuba and Venezuela
A smugglers' tunnel that had been shut down but left unfilled on the Mexican side was found to be back in operation in December
The officers found six dreamcatchers in the woman's car with rings made of rubber tubing filled with a liquid that tested positive for methamphetamine
A U.S. Border Patrol agent in San Diego was charged with bribery for allegedly accepting US$10,000 to deliver backpacks of meth and cocaine that were dropped along the border fence with Mexico
The birds, some of them protected by the Ministry of the Environment, were hidden inside the man's luggage.
Alfredo Beltrán Leyva admitted that he helped ship tons of cocaine from South America to the U.S.
The couple faces a maximum sentence of 50 years in prison and US$1 million in fines if convicted of all charges.
Authorities discovered the 39 Central American immigrants last month locked inside a semitrailer parked at a truck stop in Moore, about 40 miles southwest of San Antonio.