In 2009, the Justice Department identified more than 200 U.S. cities in which Mexican drug cartels "maintain drug distribution networks or supply drugs to distributors" - up from 100 three years earlier.

"Mexican drugs," he said.

It was believed to belong to the late Mexican drug baron Amado Carrillo Fuentes, who died in 1997.

Ayala is indicted by a tough prosecutor, hand-selected by Robert to send a message to the Mexican drug organizations.

According to InSight Crime, the book is "an excellent introduction for someone new to the subject of Mexican drug trafficking."

The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, which represents 100 of the largest pharmaceutical companies, said in September that chemical analysis found some Mexican drugs to be fake.

Beginning in early 2009, began covering the Mexican drug cartels, reporting from Juarez and Mexico City.

Is it the Mexican drug gangs?

Certainly, nobody at the time could have suspected that this cornpound synthesized in the flask would be discovered twenty years later as a naturally occurring active principle of an ancient Mexican magic drug.

According to Chapman, the federal agents 'sold him out', by trading him in for a convicted Mexican drug lord.