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
El Mencho’s stepson has built a compact structure with some of the strongmen who served the cartel’s founder
Juan Carlos González heads a list of more than 50 members of the criminal organization and companies accused of financing it who have been sanctioned
Four videos attributed to one branch of the criminal network, released between December and this week, illuminate its apparent ambitions in Morelos, the State of Mexico, and the south of the capital
The Mexican army rescued four young people over the weekend, two of them minors, from a ranch in Jalisco
The National Counterterrorism Center says Valencia is Nemesio Oseguera’s successor and the new boss of an organization that generates $1 billion a year from drug trafficking
Gerardo González Valencia attended an Argentina match at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil while the DEA was tracking his movements
On the day of the opening game and this Tuesday, the country recorded two of the days with the fewest intentional homicides in the past decade, a trend that has become established over the past year
Los Paisas, Sureños, and Norteños are prison gangs that also operate inside the agency’s facilities alongside vulnerable migrants
This 29-year-old Salvadoran man told EL PAÍS that he survived the capsizing of a boat carrying dozens of people. The family of his missing girlfriend, Yosselyn Guerrero, believes he may be part of a trafficking network
The capital of Jalisco, which will host four matches, is suffering a severe water crisis affecting thousands of homes, while the government tries to contain protests over the increase in public transport fares
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
The arrest of ‘Lobo Menor’ in the Mexican capital sheds light on the criminal relationship between the three countries, connected to cocaine trafficking
Beyond acronyms and groups, and the unequal territorial control they exert, the death of El Mencho demonstrates the intensification of operations against crime in the country, under the watchful eye of the United States
The expected guilty pleas of Erick Valencia, ‘El 85’ and Abigael González, ‘El Cuini,’ confirm the decline of the old guard
Family members are avoiding making statements and public appearances for their safety, while the local Congress is debating an initiative to prohibit missing persons posters in some areas of Guadalajara
The popular tourist area suffered one of the most ferocious reprisals following the taking down of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader
Claudia Sheinbaum is preparing a two-day visit to the Mexican state caught in the crossfire between Los Chapitos and La Mayiza
EL PAÍS gained access to the cabin complex, nestled in a luxurious mountain retreat in Jalisco, where the world’s most wanted drug trafficker and his security detail staged their last stand with the Mexican army
Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office has received a written request from a legal representative and will begin the protocol required to complete all procedures related to the custody of the deceased cartel boss
Following the death of El Mencho, a succession process begins to control the lucrative criminal tentacles of Mexico’s most powerful cartel
The leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel was killed in Tapalpa, an ecotourism hotspot near a reservoir, a golf club, and surrounded by hotels
Nemesio Oseguera was in hiding in the mountains of Jalisco with a dozen bodyguards. It was a visit from one of his “sentimental partners” that allowed authorities to locate and kill him in an operation by Mexican Army special forces
A dozen states suspended classes for Monday, and several others have convened their security cabinets to monitor the wave of violence unleashed by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel following the death of its leader
The death of El Mencho raises questions about who will succeed him at the head of the powerful criminal organization, whose operations range from drug trafficking to extortion and money laundering
The cool-headed founder of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel expanded the criminal enterprise, pushing it far beyond drug trafficking. It had tentacles across the entire country and was capable of assassinating judges, politicians, and military officers
