{"id":43338,"date":"2025-12-18T13:19:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43338"},"modified":"2025-12-18T13:20:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:20:36","slug":"cartels-in-mexico-take-a-leap-forward-with-narco-drones-it-is-criminal-groups-that-are-leading-the-innovation-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43338","title":{"rendered":"Cartels in Mexico take a leap forward with narco-drones: \u2018It is criminal groups that are leading the innovation race\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imagenes.elpais.com\/resizer\/v2\/ID4FJTFXRJAJ7NMGMZZ5GCWR7I.jpg?auth=4c61402b289f949a9a068eba1dc035d60b63b6d8c8044549c3f1b750c1d2ea7a&amp;width=1200\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:218px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/international\/2025-12-14\/cartels-in-mexico-take-a-leap-forward-with-narco-drones-it-is-criminal-groups-that-are-leading-the-innovation-race.html?ICID=ref_fark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cartels in Mexico take a leap forward with narco-drones: \u2018It is criminal groups that are leading the innovation race\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThere are difficulties in the investigation process on the Ukrainian side, which means it\u2019s hard to track people entering the country, since not all Colombians and Mexicans fighting in Ukraine belong to an organized crime group. There\u2019s a bit of both, and obviously the situation in Ukraine is difficult. But as for how they actually arrive, I\u2019ve seen reports that this is happening through private military contracting companies.<br><br>\u201cIn response to signal jammers, we\u2019ve seen drones in Ukraine equipped with a cable, sometimes more than eight kilometers long, running from the controller to the device, meaning they can\u2019t be jammed with electronic weapons. Although it\u2019s still in its early stages, we\u2019ve begun to see reports of this type of strategy in Mexico. <strong><em>Not because the Mexican government has improved its ability to jam these drones, but because the cartels themselves are improving their ability to jam their rivals\u2019 drones<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d Ziemmer states.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cartels in Mexico take a leap forward with narco-drones: \u2018It is criminal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[2194,1233,322],"class_list":["post-43338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-cartels","tag-drones","tag-mexico","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43340,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43338\/revisions\/43340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}