On this page, you will find a small selection of documents related to the Mexican-American drug war that the author of this website encountered in the course of his work. While many of the documents contain no particularly groundbreaking information, others offer unique testimony about their time or reveal highly unexpected secrets.
At this time, the following collections are available:
- Camarena Files
- Diplomatic Cables 1973 part 1
- Diplomatic Cables 1973 part 2
- Diplomatic Cables 1973 part 3
- Diplomatic Cables 1974 part 1
- Diplomatic Cables 1974 part 2
- Diplomatic Cables 1974 part 3
- Diplomatic Cables 1974 part 4
- Diplomatic Cables 1975 part 1
- Diplomatic Cables 1975 part 2
- Diplomatic Cables 1975 part 3
- Diplomatic Cables 1990-91
- Diplomatic Cables 1992-94
- Diplomatic Cables 2007-10 part 1
- Diplomatic Cables 2007-10 part 2
- Diplomatic Cables 2007-10 part 3
- Diplomatic Cables 2007-10 part 4
- National Drug Threat Assessment
- Operation Trizo part 1
- Operation Trizo part 2
- Operation Trizo part 3
- Operation Trizo part 4
- Operation Trizo part 5
- Operation Trizo part 6
- USA vs. El Chapo
All documents (whether already published or still awaiting publication) were obtained from the following public sources:
Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/)
Drug Enforcement Administration (https://www.dea.gov/resources)
Free Law Project (https://www.courtlistener.com/)
HathiTrust (https://www.hathitrust.org/)
Internet Archive – National Security Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/nationalsecurityarchive)
MuckRock Foundation (https://www.muckrock.com/foi/list/)
National Archives and Records Administration (https://www.archives.gov/research)
National Security Archive (https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/)
René Verdugo (http://reneverdugo.org/index.html [now defunct])
U.S. Department of Justice -Archives (https://www.justice.gov/archives/doj-archive)
U.S. Department of Justice – Office of Justice Programs (https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs-virtual-library)
U.S. Department of State – FOIA Library (https://foia.state.gov/FOIALIBRARY/FOIALIB2.aspx)
U.S. Department of State – Office of the Historian (https://history.state.gov/)
WikiLeaks (https://wikileaks.org/)