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The Trump administration includes among its criminal targets foreign officials who have received bribes from drug trafficking and organized crime money-laundering networks

Every year, people from around the world travel to California to work in this illicit trade, which is controlled by criminal organizations and marked by precariousness and violence

Criminals meet their victims on digital platforms, trick them into meeting, and then extort their families for a ransom

Solanda, south of Ecuador’s capital, is experiencing a wave of murders as a result of turf wars between criminal organizations

The professional assassins carefully planned the attack, using a clean weapon and three stolen vehicles with fake license plates to cover their tracks

An armed man killed Clara Brugada’s aide and an adviser Tuesday morning in Mexico City

The alleged pact between Los Chapitos and the CJNG and the apparent ties between groups from the north of the state with the ‘El Mayo’ Zambada faction deepen uncertainty about an end to the conflict

California accuses Pedro Inzunza and his son of the Beltrán Leyva organization of trafficking fentanyl for the Sinaloa Cartel

Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán’s youngest son, imprisoned in Chicago since 2023, will provide information and plead guilty in exchange for improving his legal situation

The band’s leader, Jorge Hernández, addresses his musical genre’s controversial association with crime. He also shares his perspective on Mexican immigrants in the United States

Four guards have been arrested for alleged involvement in the breakout of Saúl Francisco Hernández, leader of Los Salazar, an armed wing of the Sinaloa Cartel faction in Sonora

The former agent, a witness in the Menchito trial, was murdered exactly 10 years after surviving the downing of a helicopter in a failed operation to capture ‘El Mencho’

The Jalisco New Generation Cartel is reacting to increasing pressure from the Mexican government, which has targeted high-ranking bosses and important logistics operators

In less than a week, at least 17 clandestine cemeteries with dozens of human remains have been uncovered in Sinaloa, Baja California Sur and Colima

For over 10 years, the Olascoagas have controlled the lives and economies of dozens of municipalities in Guerrero and the State of Mexico. The US now accuses them of being large-scale drug traffickers

A police commander was shot dead Tuesday after months of murders of officers, activists, and civilians at the hands of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel

A study by the Colegio de México reveals that the CJNG is the most active in using social media to recruit adolescents

The conservative president won re-election in a run-off against the leftist Luisa González by almost 12 points, a margin that no poll had anticipated

Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, free after serving a 40-year sentence, went from marijuana smuggler to cocaine trafficker with the help of Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo and Rafael Caro Quintero, until their downfall after the murder of DEA agent Kiki Camarena

The Teuchitlán case sheds light on a phenomenon that had remained out of the spotlight: the recruitment of young people by cartels through fake job offers or directly through social media

‘Don Neto,’ convicted of the murder of DEA agent Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camarena and Mexican pilot Alfredo Zavala in 1985, served four decades in prison

Images from the Los Alegres del Barranco concert in Guadalajara open a new episode in the long series of controversies over the dissemination of symbols of organized crime

The recent capture of several leaders of the Camorra and the ‘Ndragheta highlights the extensive operations of European crime groups in the South American country

In the last three years, 42 members of the Salvadoran gang have been arrested in Mexico, one of the refuges from Nayib Bukele’s state of emergency and where they already had long-standing ties to organizations such as Los Zetas or the Sinaloa Cartel

The gang, born in a Venezuelan prison, is considered a powerful criminal organization, but it is not capable of being a national security threat as Donald Trump claims

Imitation European spirits are sold on the streets of Zimbabwe and are popular with young people and the unemployed who, in seeking a cheap drink, put their health at risk