Two men opened fire on Alma Rosa Rojo on Saturday in Culiacán while she was traveling by car with her daughter and two granddaughters. The attack occurred four days after the military presence in the city was reinforced
The death of the CJNG leader inaugurated the state’s offensive against the criminal group that operated for years with relative impunity. The subsequent capture of major capos fuels doubts about its reorganization
More than a week after the young man was killed in the middle of Sinaloa’s turf wars, his family is rejecting claims that he had ties to one of the state’s criminal factions
The city, Sinaloa’s main tourist destination, is in the grip of a wave of violence that left 14 homicides in the first week of August
Mexican authorities have linked the death of César Gastelum, the ninth content creator slain in the past two years, to messages he shared in support of ‘El Mayo’ Zambada
The sentence imposed on ‘El Mayo’ Zambada certifies the death of the criminal organization he and ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán led, which was as violent and unstable as its successors
Washington maintains that the relationship between organized crime and the Mexican government is indissoluble, while Claudia Sheinbaum demands respect for sovereignty
Former Sinaloa Cartel leader last year pleaded guilty to trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine over a period of decades
The former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, for decades one of the world’s biggest drug traffickers, awaits a life sentence in the United States amid unresolved questions that have political repercussions in Mexico
The 2024 kidnapping of the drug lord and his transfer to the US have resurfaced recently as a political rift. The Sinaloa Cartel faction war triggered by his capture continues, although somewhat muted
Reports from Mexican authorities and US court documents suggest that Mauro Alberto Núñez Ojeda aka ‘El Jando’, Los Chapitos’ trusted pilot, was the person who flew the plane that transported the Sinaloa Cartel boss two years ago
The government of Claudia Sheinbaum links Ovidio Guzmán’s cooperation with US justice to the kidnapping of the historic leader of the Sinaloa Cartel in July 2024
Sheinbaum says her government will present a report Tuesday on the cartel leader’s capture after he was abducted in Mexico in July 2024 and later taken across the border into the United States
The 76-year-old Sinaloa Cartel leader hopes to avoid the same fate as his former partner Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán
Security chief Omar García Harfuch confirms the pact under which El Mencho provided ‘funding and personnel resources’ to the Guzmán faction. The DEA, videos, and even Google Maps had pointed to the agreement
The former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel is serving a life sentence for drug trafficking in the United States. In 13 missives addressed to the judge presiding over his case, he writes that he is suffering from severe physical and psychological exhaustion
Addiction, legal troubles and accusations of criminal ties have thrust the clan from Sinaloa into the spotlight for reasons that have nothing to do with the ring
The Security Cabinet says the on-leave governor is in Sinaloa despite the fact that no one has seen him in 19 days
Two leaders of this faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, Ovidio and Joaquín Guzmán, have already been arrested and are cooperating as witnesses for US authorities
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
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
The Attorney General Office’s failure to secure the site where the cartel kingpin was killed, the gaps in the narrative about the subsequent violence that left dozens dead, and the doubts about the future of the CJNG paint a picture of the current criminal landscape in Mexico
Mindful of the insecurity in his native country, the Mexican writer presents ‘The Mermaid and the Retiree,’ a political and suspenseful work set in Culiacán that follows a congressional candidate who must confront the many forms of violence around her
Claudia Sheinbaum is preparing a two-day visit to the Mexican state caught in the crossfire between Los Chapitos and La Mayiza
The operation against the country’s most‑wanted drug trafficker is the biggest achievement to date in the fight against organized crime by the Security Cabinet led by Omar García Harfuch