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The 2024 kidnapping of the drug lord and his transfer to the US have resurfaced recently as a political rift. The Sinaloa Cartel faction war triggered by his capture continues, although somewhat muted

Four videos attributed to one branch of the criminal network, released between December and this week, illuminate its apparent ambitions in Morelos, the State of Mexico, and the south of the capital

The Mexican army rescued four young people over the weekend, two of them minors, from a ranch in Jalisco

The government of Claudia Sheinbaum links Ovidio Guzmán’s cooperation with US justice to the kidnapping of the historic leader of the Sinaloa Cartel in July 2024

Sheinbaum says her government will present a report Tuesday on the cartel leader’s capture after he was abducted in Mexico in July 2024 and later taken across the border into the United States

Arrests in Cuautla have exposed how criminal groups infiltrated local government, embedded themselves in the economy and fuelled a cycle of extortion, violence and corruption that stretches across eastern Morelos

Alberto Rodríguez made headlines this week after escaping an attack against him that left four dead in Azcapotzalco

On the day of the opening game and this Tuesday, the country recorded two of the days with the fewest intentional homicides in the past decade, a trend that has become established over the past year

This is the story of an island of 156,000 inhabitants, the smallest country ever to play in a World Cup, that has found in soccer one more reason for joy

In 2022, traffickers from the Lacandona area in southern Mexico negotiated an extraordinary deal with the Army: the return of 100 kilos of cocaine in exchange for 33 soldiers they had kidnapped. EL PAÍS reconstructs the episode — a window, in reality, onto a 50-year conflict in one of North America’s natural jewels

The president revealed some tension in last week’s meeting with the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin over crime: ‘I told him there are state institutions that are coordinated by brave men’

For over 10 years, Los Ardillos, a criminal group entrenched in municipal power in central Guerrero, have been fighting to expand their territory

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum met with Markwayne Mullin amid the controversy over US accusations against Sinaloa officials

Reports about the agency’s possible involvement in the murder of a mid-level Sinaloa Cartel operative deepen the binational security crisis

The good feeling that existed between the Mexican security cabinet and US law enforcement agencies has soured due to the clashes of recent weeks

The capture of Audias Flores took place with no exchange of gunfire and with intelligence from US agencies, according to the official account

The Attorney General Office’s failure to secure the site where the cartel kingpin was killed, the gaps in the narrative about the subsequent violence that left dozens dead, and the doubts about the future of the CJNG paint a picture of the current criminal landscape in Mexico

The arrest of ‘Lobo Menor’ in the Mexican capital sheds light on the criminal relationship between the three countries, connected to cocaine trafficking

Beyond acronyms and groups, and the unequal territorial control they exert, the death of El Mencho demonstrates the intensification of operations against crime in the country, under the watchful eye of the United States

Mindful of the insecurity in his native country, the Mexican writer presents ‘The Mermaid and the Retiree,’ a political and suspenseful work set in Culiacán that follows a congressional candidate who must confront the many forms of violence around her

The expected guilty pleas of Erick Valencia, ‘El 85’ and Abigael González, ‘El Cuini,’ confirm the decline of the old guard

The leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel had spent decades evading justice. He was brought down in an operation in the mountains of Jalisco that has sparked a violent reaction in various states across the country

Harfuch points to a criminal misunderstanding as the cause of the workers’ abduction. The bodies of at least five have been found in a mass grave, with another five yet to be identified

In Huitzo, Oaxaca, two experts explore the intricacies of the Tomb of the Owl, one of the most important discoveries in Mexican archaeology of the last decade

The vast lemon industry of the Tierra Caliente region of Michoacán, where the alleged extortionist had his fiefdom, puts any preconceived notions about violence and power to shame

The former Canadian athlete, accused of drug trafficking and murder north of the Rio Grande, has surrendered to US authorities