Families Accuse Bank of Laundering Gang Money

On February 11th 2016 the Texas Tribune published an article titled "Families Accuse Bank Of Laundering Gang Money"

This article is mainly about how the HSBC is laundering billions of dollars for the Mexican cartel including the Sinaloa, Juárez, and Los Zetas Cartels, deliberately disregarding the fact that said funds would be used to support the Mexican cartels and their terrorist acts against Mexican and U.S. citizens. 

"The lawsuit alleges that employees of the HSBC banks in Mexico regularly accepted hundreds of thousands or millions of U.S. from people with no source of income"  

Several agents that were trying to stop this from continuing were murdered.

Agent Zapata's murder sparked national outraged and "reignited the debate" about whether the Mexican government  should allow foreign agents to arm themselves while on assignment in that country. The agent and his partner were unarmed when ambushed on a roadside during a trip where they were transporting equipment from Monterrey to Mexico City.

Lesley Redelfs was an employee at the U.s. Consulate in Ciudad Juárez and her husband was a detention officer with the El Paso Country Sheriff's Department. The family was murdered by the cartel same as Agent Zapata. Redelf was four months pregnant, and the couples daughter was also found in the car when they were ambushed. 

Articles like these help us to realized things like this happen everyday and it shows you how strong the cartel world is. My opinion on this article is that the government should really crack down on the bank security and also that they should let agents go into other Countries armed to be able to defend themselves if something like that was to happen again.