C/O Futures Cartel Research Note Series Robert J. Bunker 31 December 2025 26 Pages On Monday 20 October 2025 (or within a day or so prior to it), the Guardia Estatal (Tamaulipas State Police) and the Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional (DEFENSA; Mexican Army) raided a safe house presumably belonging to the Los Metros faction of the Cártel del Golfo (CDG) in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, just below the U.S. border near McAllen, Texas. A cartel member was arrested along with the ensuing

C/O Futures Terrorism Research Note Series Lisa J. Campbell and Robert J. Bunker 3 December 2025 On 7 November 2025, a 17-year-old Muslim male student conducted a planned and premeditated bombing against a school Mosque which he attended in Jakarta, Indonesia. The attack is an outlier because the teen—who spent most of his at-home time in online spaces on his laptop—essentially became influenced to the point where he appropriated (internalized) the values, narratives, and sym

C/O Futures Cartel Special Report David A. Kuhn and Robert J. Bunker December 2025 22 Pages On 18 June 2023, a Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional (SEDENA)—Mexican Army—Infantry Transport Vehicle (ITV) on patrol between the communities of Los Bateas and El Tepetate in Apatzingán, Michoacán was destroyed by two improvised bounding mines. The mines were planted by the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) and targeted the approximately four military personnel on board,

C/O Futures Terrorism Research Note Series Pamela Ligouri Bunker and Robert J. Bunker 24 November 2025 On 24 September 2025, a sniper—identified as twenty-nine-year-old Joshua Jahn—opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) field office in Dallas, Texas. He fired indiscriminately from a nearby rooftop at the facility and at an unmarked van using a clip-fed bolt-action rifle. He killed two ICE detainees (one having died d

On 20 November 2025, the C/O Futures Director of Research and Analysis-- Dr. Robert J. Bunker --participated on the C ountering the Criminal Drone Threat in the Americas Panel for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC. The virtual event description is as follows: "The adoption of Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UASs) by nonstate armed groups throughout the Americas poses new challenges for security and stabilization efforts in the Americas. In c

C/O Futures Cartel Research Note Series Robert J. Bunker 19 October 2025 (Revised) During the early evening of Wednesday, 15 October 2025, the facility containing the anti- kidnapping unit of the Fiscalía General del Estado de Baja California (Attorney General’s Office of the State of Baja California) was attacked by multiple weaponized cartel drones. An aerial bombardment was conducted by three drones which dropped improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the parking lot of t

C/O Futures Terrorism Research Note Series Lisa J. Campbell 15 October 2025 Robin Westman conducted a shooting of individuals attending a church service in Minneapolis Minnesota on 27 August 2025, killing two children and injuring an additional 18 parishioners. The shooter described their thoughts in a journal of having interest in conducting a mass killing, including conducting planning for such from as early as the seventh grade. Westman had a high awareness of operational