{"id":11700,"date":"2018-08-16T07:28:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T07:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11700"},"modified":"2018-08-16T07:28:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T07:28:30","slug":"us-mexico-plan-to-target-drug-cartels-29bn-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11700","title":{"rendered":"US, Mexico plan to target drug cartels&#8217; $29bn fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"70\">\n<p>Senior US and Mexican drug enforcement officers have a new plan to take down Mexico\u2019s infamous drug cartels.<\/p>\n<p>They are targeting the groups&#8217; finances. <\/p>\n<p>Estimates have said that the cartels generate about $29bn dollars in revenue annually and have been blamed for about 150,000 murders since 2006.<\/p>\n<p>From the two countries feuding over immigration, the joint announcement comes as a sign that they have a mutual foe in the increasing levels of violence from the drug syndicates.<\/p>\n<p>John Hendren reports from Chicago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior US and Mexican drug enforcement officers have a new plan to take down Mexico\u2019s infamous drug cartels. They are targeting the groups&#8217; finances. Estimates have said that the cartels generate about $29bn dollars in revenue annually and have been blamed for about 150,000 murders since 2006. From the two countries feuding over immigration, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}