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Mexico May 31, 2024

Mexico's drug cartels and gangs appear to be playing a wider role in Sunday's elections than before

Gangs and drug cartels in Mexico seem to be playing a wider role in the upcoming elections that will determine the presidency, nine governorships, and around 19,000 mayorships and other posts.

Mexican Cartel Violence May 30, 2024

‘Symbolic’ $4.6B punishment against cartel that murdered Americans takes creative legal turn to become reality

A judge ordered that families of victims of a Mexican cartel ambush of three moms and 14 kids be paid $4.64 billion, which was considered symbolic at the time.

Mexican Cartel Violence May 28, 2024

Mexican presidential candidate Sheinbaum, who promises to cut crime, faces huge hurdles from powerful cartels

Front-runner in Mexico's presidential election, Claudia Sheinbaum, who greatly reduced Mexico City's murder while mayor, faces challenges to repeating her success on a national scale.

Mexican Cartel Violence May 23, 2024

Indiana beauty queen arrested in Mexican cartel bust that included one of feds' most wanted fugitives

A beauty queen was arrested as part of a major cartel bust, which included 18 suspects as of last week, and was accused of using her job to transport cash

Mexico May 22, 2024

Mexican authorities find bodies of 4 men, 2 women piled up in resort city

Prosecutors in Mexico's southern Guerrero state say the strangled bodies of four men and two women have been found piled up on a street in Acapulco.

Mexican Cartel Violence May 20, 2024

'Most ruthless' Mexican cartels operate in all 50 states, bring turf wars to US: DEA

Mexico's "most powerful and ruthless" cartel - The Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG)- operates in all 50 state and is competing with a rival cartel in the US, the DEA said

Mexico May 14, 2024

Killers in Mexico 'can look like anyone' as cartels use women, kids as assassins, PI warns

Women and children at young as 7 are being used as Mexican cartel assassins, private investigator said, adding that "the bad guys don't look like bad guys."

CRIME May 13, 2024

Surfers' deaths in Mexico 'eerily' similar to San Diego couple's murders: 'Anyone can be killed for anything'

The murders of three surfers in Mexico, including an American who was engaged to be married in August, "is eerily similar" to a 2020 murder of San Diego couple, a private investigator said.

China May 1, 2024

Chinese money laundering criminals team up with Mexican cartels to menace US, officials warn Congress

U.S. senators on Capitol Hill were warned about Chinese money launderers working with Mexican drug traffickers to use money for the funding of illegal drugs such as fentanyl.

Mexico April 29, 2024

A retired Catholic bishop who tried to mediate between cartels in Mexico is briefly kidnapped

The Mexican Council of Bishops has said a retired Roman Catholic bishop who tried to mediate between drug cartels was apparently kidnapped, but later located and brought to a hospital.

Mexico April 25, 2024

AMLO calls gangs, cartels 'respectful people' who 'respect the citizenry'

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Thursday that the country's gangs and cartels generally "respect the citizenry" in favor of killing each other.