Fear and violence permeate Culiacán, Sinaloa, and its surrounding area in northwestern Mexico. The sun-seared state capital, with a population of a little more than one million, is also known as the ...

Guatemala faced a serious security threat when armed groups from Mexico crossed its northern border and attacked rural communities. The incidents occurred on December 8, when cartel gunmen entered the ...

Before his 2020 arrest, El Marro, leader of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel, was one of Mexico's most wanted criminals for ...

LA CIÉNEGA, Mexico – Barreling down the highway at 100 mph, a convoy of state police vehicles blew through speed bumps as it entered a small town in the Sonoran desert. Blasting over them was hell, ...

The Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on a violent Mexican fuel-theft cartel and its imprisoned leader, amid the ...

Citizen groups and Sinaloa-based collectives argue that the high number of femicide victims is not simply a coincidence, but ...

On December 17, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned the Cartel de Santa Rosa de ...

Carlos Manzo was famous in Mexico for saying what few other politicians would: That cartels operated with impunity and needed to be confronted with brute force. The mayor of a city in an ...

Carlos Manzo blazed a maverick path as he battled both cartels and what he called skimpy federal support for his crusade against organized crime in his hometown of Uruapan, in western Mexico. The "man ...

In parts of northern Mexico, children as young as 13 are growing up surrounded by decades of cartel violence — so much so ...

The Trump administration has now begun detailed planning to send U.S. troops and intel officers to Mexico to target drug cartels with drone strikes, though a deployment is not imminent, according to ...