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
On the same day, the Treasury Department sanctioned the two leaders of the criminal organization, a Georgia court indicted them, and the State Department offered $8 million for their capture
The US president is threatening to impose tariffs and sanctions until Mexico complies with the 80-year-old pact and ‘gives Texas the water they are owed’
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
In just 10 days, the navy, supported by other institutions, has seized thousands of kilos of drugs and millions of liters of gasoline from criminal organizations
The internal war that has weakened the Sinaloa Cartel has only strengthened its main rivals, but the pressure from the United States to capture its leader, along with the discovery of the Teuchitlán ranch, has refocused attention on the brutal organization
Five women who are looking for missing family members across Mexico have denounced Claudia Sheinbaum’s failure to address the issue during her presidency. They accuse her of only taking action following the discovery of a mass grave in the town of Teuchitlán. These women also highlight the inaction of the prosecutors’ offices and the threats they’ve received from the cartels
Kristi Noem meets with the Colombian president and exchanges words of praise with the foreign minister, Laura Sarabia. Both countries signed a deal for biometric data cooperation
Mexico’s exporters are confident they can bypass much of the tariff due to an exception: auto parts that meet USMCA requirements will be temporarily exempt
Kristi Noem will visit El Salvador’s mega-prison this Wednesday, which houses the more than 200 Venezuelans who were deported mid-March
In the border city of Mexicali, hundreds of addicts defy the government’s rhetoric that drug use does not exist in Mexico. They are not included in the official statistics and far from a political priority. Many pass through Verter, the first supervised drug consumption center on the continent
At the Jalisco ranch, which has been identified as a cartel training camp, searchers discovered human bones, alongside hundreds of shoes and pieces of clothing belonging to young people whose whereabouts remain unknown
The Jalisco Attorney General’s Office updates the catalog of clothing found at the Izaguirre Ranch, used as a base of operations by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel
The discovery of an extermination center has shaken a small community in Jalisco. The negligence of the authorities, who searched the site last September, is further evidence of the collapse of the justice system
Hundreds of people are searching among the objects found at a ranch used by the CJNG cartel for any clues about their missing loved ones. Collectives of mothers are organizing across Mexico to travel to the site
The anti-crime measures implemented by the new president undermine the continuity with Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s six-year term, which was defined by a policy of ‘hugs, not bullets’
In two months, 16 people have gone missing around Huatulco, Zipolite and Puerto Escondido, emblematic beaches of the Mexican Pacific. Nine bodies were found inside a car, but officials are giving no explanations
U.S. president announces he will pause levies affecting products covered by the 2020 USMCA free trade agreement
A judge’s blocking of the transfer of Abraham Oseguera, brother of the CJNG leader, to the U.S. is added to his arrest last year and release nine days later. The then-Mexican president considered it proof of the corruption of the judicial system
U.S. president talked to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and blamed him for fentanyl trafficking
The stock market experienced a sharp fall as Washington’s protectionist threat against its trading partners was fulfilled
The delivery of Rafael Caro Quintero, the leaders of Loz Zetas and other organized crime kingpins marks a watershed in security policy
Mexican and U.S. authorities are struggling to explain the legal basis that allowed them to overcome the court logjam that for years prevented the drug lords from being handed over
In the last four years, authorities have seized 5.4 tons of fentanyl, almost 50% in territory controlled by the sons of ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, from where it is trafficked to the US through Tucson and San Diego
The US president has made contradictory announcements about the import duties he wants to impose
The transfer of the prisoners takes place in the midst of negotiations with the Trump administration to avoid tariffs on Mexican exports