And it’s really stunning, just like the heads of the Sinaloa cartel, how long he managed ⁠to evade US and Mexican law enforcement gunning for him.” Arguably Mexico’s most influential crime boss after captured kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman,

Organized crime groups in Mexico are now threatening U.S. companies and their employees. I have been working in cross-border logistics for over a decade and a half and I think that the security environment for companies operating in Mexico has never been ...

Mexico's most notorious cartel leader, El Mencho, has died following a military operation, igniting a wave of violence across several states. His demise, a significant blow to organised crime, has led to highway blockades and disrupted life,

On a hazy afternoon in May 2021, Daniel Gonzalez, alias “Rafael Arocho,” sped through Pasadena in a white Lexus packed with about $600,000 in cash — drug profits bound for a handoff at a San Gabriel Valley stash house in southern California.

A shop owner facing threats shutters the clothing store that had been in his family for generations. A leader of a citrus growers association is kidnapped and killed after refusing mob demands for a cut of profits. Enraged peasant farmers fed up with ...

Mexico’s prosecutors said Raúl Rocha Cantú has been under investigation for alleged organized crime activity, including drug and arms trafficking

The death of Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera is likely to spark a nationwide battle for control of the Jalisco cartel.

Oragnised crime rose in the country during the Mexican Revolution with smuggling becoming popular. It increased during the US Prohibition and the trade of opium and marijuana started from the 1940s-60s as cultivation in states like Sinaloa grew.