Cartel

An investigation published in ‘Science’ estimates the cartels contain around 175,000 people and recruit some 350 new members every week to cover losses from violence and imprisonment

By forcing their way into more and more sectors, organized crime has become ‘a dominant economic cartel,’ according to analysts

The Department of Justice indictments reveal some of the atrocities committed by the Sinaloa Cartel, which include kidnappings, torture, and the bribery of officials

The mayor of the coastal municipality does not stay in the same place for more than one night after an assassination attempt and authorities cannot safeguard the lives of schoolchildren amid a gang turf war

Drug traffickers’ infiltration of the industry that is responsible for about 30% of the world’s bananas has contributed to unprecedented violence across this once-peaceful nation

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 presidential election campaign has been marked by violence and the assassination of one of the candidates amid a wave of organized crime-related terror

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

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

The presidential candidate was assassinated while traveling in a state-provided vehicle that lacked armor despite the multiple threats he had received from organized crime

Víctor Ponce has fallen victim to a horrifying crime, a decade after he and 75 of his relatives were ruthlessly uprooted from Chihuahua by a notorious crime gang

Mexico’s former tourism jewel has been rocked by a fresh wave of violence, including kidnappings, murders and narco-blockades, in recent days

The Mexican government has done little to stem the violence around the state, while local business owners demand greater collaboration with the US

This powerful animal sedative in the illicit drug supply is complicating the U.S. response to the opioid crisis, scrambling longstanding methods for reversing overdoses and treating addiction

Mexican drug traffickers, suppliers in China and consumers in the US are the principal actors in the fentanyl supply chain. According to several studies, Bitcoin is the most common form of payment for illicit transactions, which have skyrocketed in recent years

The state of Mexico – known as ‘Edomex’ to distinguish it from the name of the whole country – is not only the site of an electoral battle between the Morena party and the historic PRI. Two large cartels and some 30 local criminal groups are fighting over illegal businesses, terrorizing the marginalized population in the process

The charges were filed against cartel leaders, as well alleged chemical suppliers, lab managers, fentanyl traffickers, security leaders, financiers and weapons traffickers

The extradition to the United States of Jorge Iván Gastélum, hitman and great strategist, means the fall of “the last piece on El Chapo’s chessboard”

Attempts by the ‘hawks’ to brand drug cartels as terrorist groups and launch military operations on Mexican soil contrast with the intensification of bilateral meetings between the two governments to tackle the fentanyl crisis

The motive for the attack on a group of four friends in Matamoros remains shrouded in mystery, as does the identity of the perpetrators and how investigators located them

Mexican federal sources confirm that a diplomatic letter has been issued requesting that the Sinaloa Cartel leader be sent to the US to stand trial for trafficking with marijuana and cocaine

The trial of former president Felipe Calderón’s secretary of public security demolishes the myth of the super-policeman who took on the cartels and reveals him to be the partner of the criminals he promised to fight

Jesús ‘Rey’ Zambada testified to handing over millions of dollars to the former Mexico security chief, who has elected not take the stand during his New York trial

The US Treasury Department says Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada’s lieutenant is ‘responsible for coordinating the purchase and transportation of cocaine and methamphetamine from Sinaloa to Arizona and California’

The judicial process against the former head of Mexican public security has seen several high-ranking narcos reveal the horrors and excesses of the war on drugs