Abbreviations Used in this Blog

I use a lot of abbreviations in my posts, and I thought it might help readers to spell out some of those abbreviations. I'll be adding to this list as required:

AFI - Mexico's Agencia Federal de Investigación, or their equivalent of the FBI

AFO - Arellano Felix Organization

AMOC - Air and Maritime Operations Center

ATF - US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives

BCN - Baja California Norte, or Northern Baja California

BLO - Beltran Leyva Organization

CBP - US Customs and Border Protection

CFP - Mexican Federal Police Corps

CISEN - Mexican-based 

Center

 of 

Intelligence

 and National Security

 

DEA - US Drug Enforcement Administration

DHS - US Department of Homeland Security

DTO - Drug trafficking organization

EPIC - El Paso Intelligence Center

EPR - People's Revolutionary Army

FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation

FFL - Federal firearms license

FOUO - For Official Use Only

GAFES - Elite Mexican Army Corp (U.S. Delta Force equivalent)

HIDTA - High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area

ICE - US Immigration and Customs Enforcement

INTERPOL - International Police

LES - Law Enforcement Sensitive

NDIC - National Drug Intelligence Center

NICS - National Instant Check System

ONDCP - Office of National Drug Control Policy

PGR - Mexico's Procuraduría General de la Republica, or their Attorney General's Office

POE - Port of entry

SEDENA - Mexico's Secretariat of National Defense

SIEDO - Mexico's Deputy Attorney General's Office for Special Investigation into Organized Crime

SWB - Southwest border

TCO - Transnational criminal organizations

USBP - US Border Patrol

USDOJ - US Department of Justice

VCFO - Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Organization

Comments

[thesis writing]

Thanks for including this list. This way it will be much easier to understand the posts

[Jose Lazcano]

This is the true definition/explanation of the power of money. It's easy, too easy to; kill, to buy government authority , to kidnap, to torture, to steal, to deal and hurt your country in all possible ways, with the power of money. The greed is so horrible and disgusting. I have family in Mexico, well technically a few now. I would really like to visit but with all thats happening, my parents begged me to please not go. It's sad in many levels not to be able to see family or friends or even just vacation in Mexico due to all the nonsense. As a kid my parents use to fly us down to Mexico during our summer breaks from school. We would help my grandfather on the farm, we had a blast. Now those days are long gone.I beleive It's a War that both the U.S. and Mexico need to diminish. I pray one day I can visit the country I once was proud to be part of GOOD OLD MEXICO.