July 30, 2024 El Chapo's son pleads not guilty in Chicago court after arrest in Texas with cartel leader ‘El Mayo’ Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, pleaded not guilty in Chicago federal court after his arrest in Texas on Thursday.
June 26, 2024 Border smugglers use social media to brag about trafficking migrants to US: ‘This is criminal,’ expert says Human smugglers are using social media apps to boast about helping migrants cross into the U.S. and gloat about the ease with which they evade authorities
June 6, 2024 Biden's border crisis: Why his new executive order doesn't really matter The bottom line is that the chaos at the border is 100% President Biden’s doing. Limiting illegal entries to 2,500 a day is political theater.
June 1, 2024 Mexicans go to the polls amid record violence against candidates, officials As Mexicans go to the polls Sunday to vote for a new president, the country is facing its most violent election campaign in its history with more than 225 candidates and officials killed.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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