The US has raised rewards for the cartel’s leading members to over $100 million and seeks to cut their income sources with the aim of destroying the criminal organization
The latest victim, Temoac Mayor Valentín Lavín Romero, was shot dead inside town hall. Oaxaca, with five cases, is the state hardest hit, followed by Michoacán with four
An American Civil Liberties Union report details more than 1,200 incidents involving U.S. immigration authorities in 2025, describing the use of force and threats as routine enforcement tactics
The 28-year-old from Guanajuato worked as a furniture salesman and had a return ticket to Mexico for July 18. He was hit by a truck while trying to evade a migrant enforcement operation in Florida
Aubrey Gideon, a Mississippi resident, has impersonated the Mexican capo in at least two of the 23 letters sent to the judge in New York, according to evidence and documents obtained by EL PAÍS
The National Counterterrorism Center says Valencia is Nemesio Oseguera’s successor and the new boss of an organization that generates $1 billion a year from drug trafficking
Friends of the US couple, whose bodies were found in a grave on June 19, say that Mexico City prosecutors failed to act despite receiving information about their whereabouts
State prosecutors say 251 sets of remains have been returned to relatives. The owner remains on the run, and no sanctions have been imposed on public officials
Authorities have arrested seven people for the alleged kidnapping and murder of the US couple, who were missing for almost a month and found dead in a grave in the State of Mexico
Diego Luna plays a bureaucrat who will do everything in his power to ensure his country hosts the World Cup for a second time in a Netflix film directed by Gabriel Ripstein
The former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, who has been serving a life sentence in the US since 2019, has sent another letter requesting extradition
A leaked audio recording points to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, Javier Milei, and Donald Trump as attempting to create a platform to spread fake news about the administrations of Claudia Sheinbaum, Lula, and Gustavo Petro
The former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel has asked to be tried in his homeland on the pending charges against him while serving a life sentence in a maximum-security prison in Colorado
An investigation by two NGOs indicates that some of the main breeders of fighting birds have operations in both countries and supply hundreds of thousands of specimens to criminal organizations each year
A report reveals that social media and far-right figures in the United States spread widely replicated false content about the operation that took down the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel
Emails from witnesses, victims, and FBI documents in the declassified files suggest that the financier used the country on more than one occasion to commit crimes linked to child sex trafficking
The indictment of nine US citizens in their own country puts the spotlight on the lack of controls on the purchase of high-caliber artillery that benefits criminal organizations south of the border
Ricardo Trevilla, Secretary of Defense, says that the Claudia Sheinbaum government has recovered 215 powerful .50 caliber rifles from criminals, one of the drug traffickers’ favorites
Claudia Sheinbaum maintains that the image shows the moment the alleged drug trafficker surrendered in Mexico City. Canadian television, however, reports that it was created using artificial intelligence
The Mexican director’s ambitious adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel is also competing in the Adapted Screenplay category
Mexico’s secretary of public security, Omar García Harfuch, reported the capture of seven of his hitmen along with weapons and vehicles in the city of Badiraguato
The arrest of six alleged members of the Venezuelan gang exposes the collaboration between organized crime groups in Mexico City
Daniel Arizmendi, who is believed to have kidnapped 200 people, used the modus operandi of cutting off a piece of his victims’ ears, in order to demand ransom from their families. Last week, a judge acquitted Arizmendi in one of the cases against him
The train car in which Katherine Vásquez was traveling derailed and fell 6.5 meters. The victims’ families continue searching for their loved ones
The murder of the Guzmáns’ head of security follows the arrests and killings of six other lieutenants over the past two years
The attacks have intensified, and the Mexican government acknowledges a recent increase in homicides as the sons of El Chapo and El Mayo fight for territory
Security experts detect a greater reach in the arms war of organized crime groups with the use of kamikaze-type drones and signal jammers against attacks from rivals