Mexico records largest fentanyl seizure in history
The Secretariat of the Navy seized 1,500 kilos of opioid pills in the Mexican state of Sinaloa amid the ongoing cartel war between Los Chapitos and the faction loyal to Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada
The letter from ‘El Mayo’ Zambada that widens the scandal in Mexico: A murder, a capture and a secret meeting
The Sinaloa Cartel leader has taken control of narrative over his arrest after claiming that he was going to meet with Governor Rubén Rocha and linking his detention to the murder of Héctor Cuén, an influential local politician
Vicente Zambada: Another piece in the puzzle of the ‘El Mayo’ case in the US
The man who was once one of the heirs to the Sinaloa Cartel empire was freed from prison in 2021 after testifying against El Chapo in a plea deal
The Sinaloa Cartel after ‘El Mayo’ Zambada: Mexico fears outbreak of violence after arrest of drug lord
The arrest of the co-founder of the powerful criminal organization in the US opens up several possible scenarios: wars of succession, changes in the criminal structure, and confrontation with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel
Ismael ‘Mayo’ Zambada, the great Mexican drug lord and founder of the Sinaloa Cartel who never set foot in prison, arrested in Texas
Joaquín Guzmán López, one of ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán’s sons, was also apprehended in the operation carried out at an airport in the border city of El Paso
Two towns held hostage by drug traffickers on the southern border of Mexico: checkpoints, murders and control over phone service and food
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When consulted by EL PAÍS, activists, members of the Federal Police and local journalists confirm that it’s impossible to enter or leave Frontera Comalapa or Chicomuselo
The DEA’s crusade against the Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels: ‘The most dangerous and deadly drug crisis the US has ever faced’
The latest annual report from the anti-narcotics agency warns that the two criminal groups ‘have effectively eliminated any competition’ and already have a presence in all 50 states of the country
New York prosecutor accuses former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández of ‘protecting’ drug traffickers
US authorities claim that the ex-leader worked ‘hand in hand’ with violent criminal organizations, such as the Sinaloa Cartel, to send cocaine into the United States
Drug lords go on killing spree to hunt down corrupt officers who stole shipment in Mexico’s Tijuana
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Two of the officers suspected of the theft have been killed, prosecutors say. But so have at least three other officers, according to the city’s former police chief
Letter from inmate 89914053: ‘El Chapo’ wants company
The Sinaloa Cartel leader asks Judge Brian Cogan to authorize visits from Emma Coronel and the two daughters he has with former beauty queen
The broken lives of Roberto, Diego, Uriel, Jaime and Dante, the disappeared young men from Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco
The broadcast of brutal images of the kidnapping of the five young men has kept Mexico on edge and shows the slow progress of investigations into cases of missing persons
Mexican cartels linked to Ecuador violence: ‘Criminals have an incentive to say they belong to a renowned group’
More cocaine moves through Ecuador than any other country in the world, meaning cartels like Sinaloa and the CJNG need local criminal organizations to handle transport and logistics
López Obrador insists that Mexico does not produce fentanyl and claims that it comes from China: ‘We have proof’
The Mexican President announces that he will send another letter to the Government of Xi Jinping and will ask him to prevent the shipment of substances to the country, following the arrival of a container at the port of Lazaro Cardenas
‘El Chapo’ sons charged with smuggling cheap fentanyl to US
The cartel went from its first makeshift fentanyl lab to a network of labs concentrated in the northern state of Sinaloa in less than a decade