The Kingpin Act, established in the 1990s, allows for international sanctions and the prosecution of Americans aiding cartels ...

but also to target communities in southern states such as Michoacán and Guerrero to increase their territory by taking over land from farmers and rival cartels. Fernando José Ventura ...

Thousands died in the violence that engulfed the country, helping double Mexico’s homicide rate in just two years, according to estimates by Guerrero. Cartel members say the line that divides ...

The incoming administration wants to try the move again, potentially opening up military operations against the groups.

She has ruled out declaring war on the cartels and instead proposed to continue her predecessor's strategy of using social policy to tackle crime at its roots, while also making better use of ...

REUTERS/Stringer NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES On the last day of March, horror focused on one of the most violent municipalities in Guerrero. Chilapa (in the center east of the entity) woke up with a ...

Sinaloa cartel head ‘El Mayo’ arrested after flying to the U.S. The world’s most powerful drug kingpin was in a U.S. court Friday on weapons, money laundering and drug trafficking charges.