The 10 politicians indicted by the U.S. enjoy institutional protection from the Mexican government. They are not being ...

Experts say cartels echo others such as Italian mafiosi who test religious boundaries by looking to Catholic saints to ...

Territory: Much of the north-west. The US government has described the Sinaloa Cartel as one of the largest drug-trafficking organisations in the world. Founded in the late 1980s, it was for many ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday ordered Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, to be detained on charges she conspired with her husband to run ...

On February 22, cartel boss Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” was killed in a hideout in the town of Tapalpa, a well-known tourist center in Mexico’s Jalisco state. The Mexican ...

The U.S. investigation into two Mexican governors suspected of working with organized crime threatens to deepen a growing ...

Mexican senators came to blows Wednesday after a heated debate over alleged opposition calls for the United States to intervene militarily against drug cartels. Lawmaker Alejandro Moreno, leader of ...

In February 2026, Mexican forces killed the cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes — more commonly known as "El Mencho" in an organized raid on the leader's mountain hideout. Violence ensued as ...

The Drug Enforcement Administration started seeing Chinese drug money launderers replacing Mexicans in 2015. Weiliang Zheng could now get at least 70 months in prison for helping move illegal drug ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum speaks during a briefing at Palacio Nacional in Mexico City last month. (Cristopher Rogel Blanquet / Getty Images) President Trump has deployed military might to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A California man who co-founded one of Mexico’s most powerful and violent drug cartels pleaded guilty on Tuesday in the U.S. to a federal narcotics conspiracy charge. Erick Valencia ...