MEXICO CITY, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- Mexican security forces early Sunday killed seven more suspected members of a drug cartel that attacked a small-town city hall in North Mexico's border state of Coahuila on Saturday, official sources said. The latest deaths brought the total number of victims...
Drug cartel gunmen set up road blockades and attacked police patrols in the area Tuesday, and later in the day again attacked a funeral convoy of cars accompanying the body of one of the victims in the first attack. The office of the state security spokesman confirmed the death...
Authorities confirmed on Friday that 14-year-old Ángel Barrera Millán was one of four minors and seven adults whose dismembered bodies were found dumped in the back of a pickup truck on the side of a highway this week. The deaths underscore the brazen power of the local drug cartels an...
As we noted in last year's annual cartel report, Mexico in 2010 bore witness to some 15,273 deaths in connection with the drug trade. Despite the Mexican government's efforts to curb cartel-related violence, the death toll for 2011 may have exceeded what had been an unprecedented number. ...
Fentanyl is blamed for about 70,000 overdose deaths per year in the United States. “We allege El Nini was one of the Sinaloa Cartel’s lead sicarios, or assassins, and was responsible for the murder, torture, and kidnapping of rivals and witnesses who th...
“The government of Mexico did not take part in this arrest or surrender,” state security director Rosa Icela Rodriquez said. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he expected a “complete report” from the United States on how the men were taken into custody. ...
And to think that there are people here in Mexico that support negotiating and pacting with these animals, the only thing they understand is military force and they need to be treated like enemies of the state. How the hell can you live in a country where this scum operates with impunity...
an improvised land mine apparently planted by a drug cartel killed two mexican soldiers and wounded five others, mexico's defense secretary said tuesday. gen. ricardo trevilla acknowledged that the army had already suffered six deaths from such improvised explosive ...
The state of Tamaulipas is the stronghold of the Gulf Cartel, one of the oldest and most powerful of Mexico's criminal groups. But the cartel has lost territory and influence in recent years to its rivals,according to the think tank InSight Crime. ...
The Zetas are already considered the hemisphere's most violent criminal organization. They have been blamed for a large share of the tens of thousands of deaths in Mexico's war on drugs, though other gangs also have repeatedly committed mass slayings. ...