A gold mine in Mexico’s Sonoran desert was taken over by the sons of drug lord Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán. Mexican officials and generals said they would help an American businessman reclaim the mine — but demanded hefty bribes. For one man, reclaiming the mine was more than a business proposition. It was a reckoning with his past and a chance to pay back the orphanage that raised him
‘El Mayo’ Zambada, ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, and Caro Quintero — the three kings of Mexico’s drug empire — will spend their final days in the prisons in the United States
The US agency claims to be working with its Mexican partners, but Claudia Sheinbaum says that there’s no agreement that includes the DEA in the initiative
The transfer follows the same pattern as last February, when Mexico handed over 29 drug lords, including Rafael Caro Quintero, the ‘Narco of Narcos’
The Justice Department’s decision, which benefits Caro Quintero and ‘El Mayo’ Zambada, marks a shift from the president’s earlier calls to execute drug traffickers
The decision opens the door to a possible plea deal between the drug lord and authorities
The arrest of the drug lord marks its first anniversary, while the Mexican State bleeds due to the fight initiated by his henchmen against the sons of his former partner, Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán
The internal war between factions of the Sinaloa cartel is also being waged in Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán’s historic stronghold
The drug lord, detained in a US prison since February on charges of killing a DEA agent, is waiting to find out whether he will be sentenced to death or life imprisonment
California accuses Pedro Inzunza and his son of the Beltrán Leyva organization of trafficking fentanyl for the Sinaloa Cartel
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
‘Don Neto,’ convicted of the murder of DEA agent Enrique ‘Kiki’ Camarena and Mexican pilot Alfredo Zavala in 1985, served four decades in prison
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
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
Drug trafficking, homicide and organized crime are some of the charges that the dozens of cartel members extradited to contain tariff threats face in US courts
The fate of the historic Mexican drug lord was marked by the brutal murder in 1985 of DEA agent Kiki Camarena. It was the extradition most sought by the US and pressure from Donald Trump has materialized it
The transfer of the prisoners takes place in the midst of negotiations with the Trump administration to avoid tariffs on Mexican exports
The biggest fracture within the Sinaloa Cartel in more than a decade is causing panic in the state
The biography of the former rector of the biggest university in Sinaloa was marked by tragedy, intrigues, and power struggles. The controversy has extended to his murder, with no answers as to who killed him and why
The 71-year-old drug trafficker, who for years worked under the protection of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, has been sentenced to 22 years in prison in the US
Mexican drug traffickers account for seven of the top 10 names on U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency’s list of priority fugitives
American authorities are tightening the net around the clans of aging drug lords like Joaquín Guzmán, Rubén Oseguera and Rafael Caro Quintero