August 8, 2023 Colombia's most wanted drug kingpin faces sentencing in US The elusive boss of Colombia's notorious Gulf Clan group, Dairo Antonio Úsuga, also known as Otoniel, faces sentencing in New York following his arrest in 2021.
August 4, 2023 Cartels bank billions off Biden’s border crisis, lead migrants through ‘a big graveyard’ to US El Paso nonprofit directors have witnessed a humanitarian crisis at the southern border as cartels take advantage of migrants trying to reach the U.S.
July 17, 2023 Another journalist killed in Mexico as country’s drug cartel violence intensifies A journalist in Mexico was shot to death on Saturday. He is one of the many reporters who died amid the country's intensifying drug war.
July 13, 2023 Mexican cartel attack forces police to suspend search for kidnapping victims A recent cartel attack where police were lured in by a fake report of a mass grave is causing officers to abandon searches for missing people.
July 12, 2023 6 Mexican police officers, prosecutors killed in series of roadway bomb blasts A series of coordinated bomb blasts in western Mexico killed six police officers and prosecutors. The bomb blasts are suspected to be coordinated by the country's cartels.
July 6, 2023 Body parts strewn around Mexican city, believed to be linked to drug cartel A severed human leg that was discovered hanging from a pedestrian bridge in Toluca, has suspicions pointing to the involvement of a violent drug cartel.
July 6, 2023 Mexican cartel suspected in case of severed body parts found outside state capital The scattered remains of at least two different murder victims were discovered in the neighborhoods surrounding a Mexican state capital on Wednesday.
July 3, 2023 Drug cartel violence flares in Mexico a day after gang-fighting vigilante gets buried Drug cartels wreaked havoc across Apatzingan, Mexico, once again, following the death of Hipolito Mora, a vigilante leader of an anti-gang citizens’ movement.
July 1, 2023 US PhD student killed doing research in warring Mexican state once controlled by El Chapo: 'A hornet's nest' Gabriel Trujillo, a California Ph.D. student who was engaged to be married – was fatally shot at least seven times in Mexico during a research trip to Sonora.
June 23, 2023 Mexico investigating video showing cartels threatening bar hostesses at gunpoint A video allegedly depicting members of Mexico's Jalisco New Generation cartel holding bar hostesses at gunpoint is being investigated by the nation's government.