With her three children murdered and her partner disappeared, Eva Vàzquez is just one of many living through a dire situation that has seen almost 15,000 people vanish without trace in the first year of Sheinbaum’s government
Since the Treasury targeted Sumilab in May 2023, its owners have received over three million pesos in government allocations
The Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned eight individuals and 12 companies it accuses of being linked to Los Chapitos
The crossfire between Los Chapitos and the faction loyal to ‘El Mayo’ Zambada has generated a spike in disappearances in the last year with a dominant pattern: male, up to 40 years old, and from Culiacán
The State Department accuses ‘El Ruso’ of drug and arms trafficking as well as bribing government officials, police, and military personnel in Sinaloa with over $1 million per month
EL PAÍS reports from the northwest region of Mexico, documenting a bloody cartel conflict that has claimed thousands of lives and shaken the community
The Mexican president has released her first federal budget. She has also strengthened her security strategy, with the issue of judicial reform now resolved
‘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
Accusations from the United States Department of the Treasury reveal new forms of money laundering being used by organized crime
The drug lord’s guilty plea includes the disclosure of his assets to the courts, although experts consider it unlikely that they will be recovered
Washington claims the veteran drug lord and other cartel leaders earned $10 million a year from cocaine trafficking alone, while El Mayo held assets worth $15 billion
The son of the former world boxing champion is accused of organized crime and arms trafficking
The accused drug trafficker, arrested under unusual circumstances in July 2024, is taking the same path as Ovidio Guzmán
Washington accuses the Michoacán group of manufacturing and distributing methamphetamine, cocaine, and fentanyl, and smuggling them into the country
Attorney General Pam Bondi says the move is due to the fact that the Chavista regime’s ‘organized crime operation’ continues to function
The transfer follows the same pattern as last February, when Mexico handed over 29 drug lords, including Rafael Caro Quintero, the ‘Narco of Narcos’
A decree addressed to the Pentagon provides an official basis for undertaking direct operations in other countries, according to ‘The New York Times’
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
His extradition is being viewed as a victory by the Daniel Noboa administration, but it also evidences a lack of confidence in the local justice system
EL PAÍS reconstructs, on the ground and using exclusive documents, the presence of former military personnel hired by the cartels, a lethal alliance of organized crime
José Adolfo Macías, leader of the feared gang Los Choneros, is the first local drug kingpin to be handed over. His trial is raising expectations in Ecuador over the potential revelations that could emerge in the courtroom
The academic year ends without any celebrations in the midst of the Mexican state’s ‘narco-war.’ Entire families sheltered their children at home, turning classrooms into virtual spaces, not by choice, but for survival
The economy secretary accuses the United States of having rejected proposals for agreements for ‘political reasons’
Seventy-four percent of illegal weapons enter through the northern border. Mexican authorities are mapping the main routes while Washington is downsizing the ATF
El Chapo’s son accepts responsibility on four counts of drug trafficking and organized crime and pledges ‘substantial assistance’ in exchange for prosecutors requesting a lighter sentence
The son of Mexico’s boxing legend finds himself behind bars in Los Angeles — the latest twist in a life marked by scandal, recovery, and inner turmoil
