MEXICO CITY (AP) — A drug cartel in central Mexico has kidnapped 14 local residents, including four children, in apparent retaliation for an uprising by angry farmers earlier this month that killed 10 cartel gunmen, officials said. Farmers in the village of Texcaltitlan and a neighboring ha...
An essay is presented on the role of drug cartels in Mexico for drug laws and regulation in the U.S. Topics discussed include the cartel-related violence in Mexico such as kidnapping, theft, and human smuggling, the impact of drug violence for implementation of regulations in the U.S., ...
The Logic of Violence in Drug Wars: Cartel-State Conflict in Mexico, Brazil and Colombia Why have militarized interventions to curtail violence by drug cartels had wildly divergent results? In the past six years, state crackdowns drove a nine-fold increase in cartel-state violence in Mexico, ve...
depicts the smuggling paths of a "supernetwork" of interconnected gun supply chains that were illegally funneling military-grade firearms at the direction of the Jalisco New Generation cartel in Mexico.CBS News
State authorities remained on alert in and around Jalisco's capital of Guadalajara, with heavy police patrols and fewer people than usual on the streets Saturday. Mexico's government is going head-on against the cartel, whose leader, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias "El Mencho," is one of th...
A Mexican cartel leader arrested in the US faked his death and assumed a phony name, prosecutors say November 22, 2024 A 14-year-old boy last seen in a kidnap video is among the 11 found dead in southern Mexico November 9, 2024 Police find 11 bodies dumped by a highway in sout...
Alleged Mexican Drug Cartel Boss Charged in California More SAN DIEGO (AP) — An alleged top lieutenant of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel has been accused of helping smuggle tons of methamphetamine, fentanyl, heroin and other drugs into the United States, federal authorities said Wednesday. A 2018...
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Members of Mexico's Zetas drug cartel presumably claimed responsibility for the nightclub shooting that killed five people in the Caribbean resort of Playa del Carmen, local media reported on Tuesday. Residents of Playa awoke early in the day to several white...
It can be a little deceiving to think of Mexico's drug cartels as simply gangsters. Instead, they've blurred the distinctions between organized crime and quasi-military insurgents, with plenty of firepower to back it up.
In September 2014, the 43 students had been traveling to a political demonstration in Mexico City when investigators believe they were kidnapped by the drug cartel in collusion with corrupt police. The exact circumstances of their disappearance are still unknown, but a truth commission set up by...