Drug Cartels

Daily atrocities reported in Mexico jump 18%

Decades of violence in Mexico left over 100,000 missing and recently driven efforts to restructure the country's security forces.

'Drug gangs' in Mexico border cities burn vehicles, set blockades

Dozens of vehicles torched in multiple cities as gang violence hits the North American country third time in week.

Mexico seizes 1.6 tonnes of cocaine in capital

Mexican authorities found the drugs concealed in two trailers on a highway on the edge of the city believing it was coming from Colombia.

Colombians vote for president amid struggling economy

Pre-vote polls show former rebel Gustavo Petro ahead so far as Colombians vote for their next leader in a country facing rising poverty and insecurity.

Mexico's closure of elite unit deals a blow to the US’ fight against narcos

The special unit worked closely with the US’ DEA for several decades, but President Obrador’s less confrontational policy led to its dissolution.

Over a dozen people killed at clandestine cockfighting ring in Mexico

At least 20 people have been killed in the town of Las Tinajas in Michoacan in what President Lopez Obrador described as "a massacre by one group against another."

Carload of bodies found outside Mexico town hall

Vehicle full of bodies found outside a town hall in Zacatecas, a northern Mexican state gripped by a turf war between rival drug cartels, authorities say.

Mexico Congress approves landmark bill to legalise cannabis

The bill, approved by 316 votes, is now pending Senate approval, after which Mexico will allow cultivation, transformation, sale, research and export or import of marijuana.

Notorious drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman convicted on ten charges

The charges include trafficking tonnes of illegal drugs into the US, and engaging in a criminal enterprise while leading the Sinaloa Cartel. The verdict means Guzman is now facing life in prison.

Prison riot leaves four dead in Mexico's Tamaulipas state

A gun battle broke out between prisoners and security forces after authorities launched an operation to halt the smuggling of weapons inside a prison in Ciudad Victoria.

Discovery of mass graves brings attention to Mexico's Veracruz

Veracruz witnessed over 1,000 killings in 2016 and twice as many forced disappearances. But, according to local residents, the police have been turning a blind eye to the problem.

Over 250 human skulls found in mass grave in Mexico

The human remains were found in what appears to be a drug cartel mass burial ground on the outskirts of the Veracruz city, Mexican prosecutors say.