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October 23, 2024

Mexican troops kill 19 suspected cartel members, suffer no casualties: officials

Mexican army troops have reportedly killed 19 suspected cartel affiliates during a Monday shootout near Culiacan, the state capital of Sinaloa.

October 18, 2024

Mexican newspaper offices hit by gunfire in Sinaloa state capital

A dozen gunshots were fired at a building housing the Mexican newspaper El Debate in the northern state of Sinaloa; the newspaper found at least 4 bullet impacts on the walls of the building.

October 17, 2024

Former Mexican public security chief gets more than 38 years, $2M fine for taking cartel bribes

Mexico’s ex-public security secretary Genaro García Luna was sentenced to more than 38 years in prison and a $2 million fine for taking millions in bribes to protect the Sinaloa cartel.

October 8, 2024

Mexican mayor's severed head placed atop pickup truck 6 days after taking office

The mayor of a violence-plagued city in Mexico was killed on Sunday with his decapitated body left in a pickup truck and his severed head placed atop the vehicle's roof.

October 2, 2024

Mexico's army seizes local police weapons in cartel heartland amid gunfights, violence

The Mexican army has seized the firearms of local police in the Sinaloa city of Culiacan as cartel violence has escalated, dozens have been killed in the streets and distrust in the police grows.

September 13, 2024

Infamous Mexican cartel leader `El Mayo' Zambada pleads not guilty to narcotics trafficking, murder charges

Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, longtime leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, pleaded not guilty to U.S. narcotics trafficking and murder charges on Friday.

August 31, 2024

Former Mexican drug cartel leader who generated 'new era' of organized crime is released from US prison

Former Gulf cartel leader Osiel Cárdenas Guillén has been transferred into ICE custody at federal prison in Indiana and may soon be heading back to Mexico, officials say.

August 29, 2024

Kamala Harris' border crisis legacy: Hundreds of thousands of missing and exploited children

Biden-Harris officials are prioritizing speed over safety when processing the thousands of minors crossing the border, even releasing them to sexual predators and those with ties to gang members.

August 17, 2024

'Cowboy Cartel': Mexican drug lords' American racehorse ring hid deadly crime enterprise

"Cowboy Cartel," a new docuseries, dives into Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas' involvement in U.S. horse racing and how American investigators took it down.

August 2, 2024

Drug cartels using bomb-dropping drones have killed Mexican army soldiers: report

On Friday, The Mexican army acknowledged to the Associated Press that some of its soldiers have been killed by bomb-dropping drones operated by drug cartels.