Mexican cartel

US pushes Mexico to prosecute politicians with ties to drug cartels

The requests seek to push President Claudia Sheinbaum's government to investigate current elected officials and launch an unprecedented crackdown on narco corruption.

Demonstrators seen during a protest against federal immigration sweeps in downtown Los Angeles, California, US, June 8, 2025
'The wall along Mexican border wouldn’t be built and there’d be no chance Mexico would pay a single peso for it.'

Mexico probes possible drug motive for attack on four Americans

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Yellow police tape lies on the road as federal agents work at a crime scene in the town in Mexico

Mexico says at least 29 killed during capture of El Chapo's son


Mexico arrests Ovidio Guzman, son of 'El Chapo,' in night of violence

News of the capture came after a night of violence in the city of Culiacan in the northern state of Sinaloa, home to the drug cartel of the same name.

The wreckage of a bus and a burning truck, set on fire by members of a drug gang are pictured following the detention of Mexican drug gang leader Ovidio Guzman, a son of incarcerated kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who has been arrested by Mexican authorities, in Culiacan, Mexico, Jan. 5, 2023.

Abducted mayor, officials in northern Mexico freed, governor says

The mayor of a small town in northern Mexico near the US border and a group of officials have reportedly been freed.

Yellow police tape lies on the road as federal agents work at a crime scene in the town in Mexico

Gang shootout in northern Mexico leaves four dead - officials

Three members of the powerful Mexican Gulf Cartel are dead after a shootout and a car chase with law enforcement.

 Plastic flowers are seen at crosses set up in memory of four policemen who were killed a year ago in a shoot-out with alleged gang members in La Barca November 27, 2013.

As asylum camp swells at US-Mexico border, Biden aide calls for patience

The Trump administration's protocols, in place since 2019, have pushed more than 65,000 asylum seekers back into Mexico to wait for their US court hearings.

A migrant from Guatemala talk to a US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent at the Paso del Norte international border bridge to request asylum in El Paso, Texas, U.S., in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico January 26, 2021.

Int'l groups offer Mexico help to probe suspected migrant massacre

Mexican and Guatemalan authorities have so far collected DNA samples from relatives of the suspected victims to determine whether the 19 bodies are those of a group of missing migrants.

Guatemalan soldiers patrol to prevent a group of Honduran migrants who are trying to reach the U.S, from moving towards the Guatemala and Mexico border, as they sit outside the migrant shelter , in Tecun Uman, Guatemala October 3, 2020.

Mexican lawmakers take up sweeping cannabis legalization bill

Lawmakers are now rushing to try to meet a Dec. 15 deadline set by the Supreme Court for legalization aiming to remove the drug as a source of income for violent drug gangs.

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Gunmen kill 24 people in attack on Mexican drug rehab center

Mexican news network Milenio said seven people were also injured in the shooting at the facility in Guanajuato state.

A member of the National Guard stands guard at a military check point outside the town of Uruapan in Michoacan state, Mexico February 5, 2020.

Mexico's president orders military on streets to curb rising violence

Mexico's president has ordered the armed forces to tackle security on the streets for another four years.

A member of the National Guard stands guard at a military check point outside the town of Uruapan in Michoacan state, Mexico February 5, 2020.

Sixteen inmates killed in fight in Mexican prison

Security will be boosted at prisons in the state after the incident in the Varonil prison, which broke out around 2:30 pm on Tuesday afternoon, the government said.

A yellow police line cordon is seen during a tour at the recently closed Topo Chico prison in Monterrey

Killed American family may have been 'bait' in Mexican cartel fight

"We were deliberately targeted, used as bait to lure one cartel against another," said Lafe Langford, a cousin of some of the victims, who grew up in the same Mormon village.

Yellow police tape lies on the road as federal agents work at a crime scene in the town in Mexico

Mexico: Gunmen kill U.S. Mormon family members in north Mexico

The victims belonged to the LeBaron family from a breakaway Mormon community that settled in the hills and plains of northern Mexico decades ago.

Yellow police tape lies on the road as federal agents work at a crime scene in the town in Mexico