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After El Mencho’s death, his stepson Juan Carlos Valencia González became the new boss and the DEA’s most wanted fugitive. He was born in a private facility in a suburb of Los Angeles

The case of 13 Penn State students charged with trafficking is the latest example of undergraduates who traded textbooks for selling illegal substances

The survivors and relatives of victims of the shooting attack are seeking a luxury residence and other assets seized from CJNG capo Cristian Fernando Gutiérrez Ochoa as compensation

Juan Carlos Valencia González, who took control of the cartel after El Mencho’s death, owns an estate in Hemet valued at nearly $700,000

The Central American leader marks 100 days in office in a confrontation with the judiciary. She denies authoritarian intent under her mandate and defends her loyalty to former president Rodrigo Chaves, her political godfather and most powerful minister

Trump and Milei governments reaffirm their strategic security alliance at the international drug control conference

Senior officials from around 100 countries are taking part in an international conference that underscores Milei’s close relationship with Trump

Ambassador Ronald Johnson reveals a new agreement to purchase drones and Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch will attend the DEA conference in Argentina

The US has raised rewards for the cartel’s leading members to over $100 million and seeks to cut their income sources with the aim of destroying the criminal organization

Washington maintains that the relationship between organized crime and the Mexican government is indissoluble, while Claudia Sheinbaum demands respect for sovereignty

Gerardo González Valencia attended an Argentina match at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil while the DEA was tracking his movements

Modest businesses owned by Hispanic families are one of the methods that Mexican traffickers use to move the fortunes they obtain from drug sales in the US

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

The investigation reinforces evidence of covert operations conducted directly on Mexican soil by US agencies, as part of Trump’s crusade against the cartels

The DEA arrested 18 members of the criminal gang that had taken over drug sales in a Los Angeles park filled with homeless people

An official report warns that Joaquín Guzmán exchanged messages last year about threats against government informants and payments for drug sales

The former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel has asked to be tried in his homeland on the pending charges against him while serving a life sentence in a maximum-security prison in Colorado

The US indictment of Governor Rocha and members of his administration over ties to El Chapo’s sons is fueling a mix of fatigue and resignation in a region marred by corruption and violence

Several political operatives were kidnapped during the 2021 elections and armed groups stole ballot boxes full of votes, according to the indictment filed by the US prosecutors

Washington has requested the extradition of the accused, but Mexico maintains that the US Department of Justice does not have evidence of their guilt

Claudia Sheinbaum asserts that she was unaware of the agents’ presence and demands explanations from Washington regarding a possible violation of sovereignty

Santa Ana was one of the first territories in the US conquered by the criminal organization. Juan Carlos Valencia González, who is poised to become the new boss, was born there

Mexico and the United States identify the 41-year-old as the possible successor to the powerful organization. Part of an old Michoacán clan and stepson of El Mencho, criminal lineage looms large in the story of the leader of the CJNG’s Elite Group

In 2022, the cartel leader was linked to the murder of Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci

Jonathan Obando, a Colombian citizen, survived one of the 41 deadly attacks conducted by Washington against alleged drug-trafficking boats. His father tells his son’s story for the first time

Following the death of El Mencho, a succession process begins to control the lucrative criminal tentacles of Mexico’s most powerful cartel