Mexican Cartel Violence - Page 25

August 17, 2023

Mexican investigators find decapitated, burned bodies after circulation of gruesome execution video

Mexican authorities have found four decapitated and badly burned bodies several days after the emergence of a gruesome execution believed to show five missing young men.

August 16, 2023

Mexican prosecutors investigating gruesome cartel video showing victims forced to kill each other

Mexican authorities are investigating a video that is believed to depict a drug cartel forcing young men who went missing last week to kill each other.

August 9, 2023

US slaps sanctions on Sinaloa Cartel members, including ‘The Anthrax Monkey,’ as part of anti-fentanyl moves

The U.S. announced on Wednesday that it is sanctioning a number of cartel members involved in fentanyl trafficking and related gang violence.

August 8, 2023

Colombia's most wanted drug kingpin faces sentencing in US

The elusive boss of Colombia's notorious Gulf Clan group, Dairo Antonio Úsuga, also known as Otoniel, faces sentencing in New York following his arrest in 2021.

August 4, 2023

Cartels bank billions off Biden’s border crisis, lead migrants through ‘a big graveyard’ to US

El Paso nonprofit directors have witnessed a humanitarian crisis at the southern border as cartels take advantage of migrants trying to reach the U.S.

July 17, 2023

Another journalist killed in Mexico as country’s drug cartel violence intensifies

A journalist in Mexico was shot to death on Saturday. He is one of the many reporters who died amid the country's intensifying drug war.

July 13, 2023

Mexican cartel attack forces police to suspend search for kidnapping victims

A recent cartel attack where police were lured in by a fake report of a mass grave is causing officers to abandon searches for missing people.

July 12, 2023

6 Mexican police officers, prosecutors killed in series of roadway bomb blasts

A series of coordinated bomb blasts in western Mexico killed six police officers and prosecutors. The bomb blasts are suspected to be coordinated by the country's cartels.

July 6, 2023

Body parts strewn around Mexican city, believed to be linked to drug cartel

A severed human leg that was discovered hanging from a pedestrian bridge in Toluca, has suspicions pointing to the involvement of a violent drug cartel.

July 6, 2023

Mexican cartel suspected in case of severed body parts found outside state capital

The scattered remains of at least two different murder victims were discovered in the neighborhoods surrounding a Mexican state capital on Wednesday.