Mexican Cartel Violence

World 6 hours ago

Former Mexican public security chief gets more than 38 years, $2M fine for taking cartel bribes

Mexico’s ex-public security secretary Genaro García Luna was sentenced to more than 38 years in prison and a $2 million fine for taking millions in bribes to protect the Sinaloa cartel.

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Mexican mayor's severed head placed atop pickup truck 6 days after taking office

The mayor of a violence-plagued city in Mexico was killed on Sunday with his decapitated body left in a pickup truck and his severed head placed atop the vehicle's roof.

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Mexico's army seizes local police weapons in cartel heartland amid gunfights, violence

The Mexican army has seized the firearms of local police in the Sinaloa city of Culiacan as cartel violence has escalated, dozens have been killed in the streets and distrust in the police grows.

U.S. 6 hours ago

Infamous Mexican cartel leader `El Mayo' Zambada pleads not guilty to narcotics trafficking, murder charges

Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, longtime leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, pleaded not guilty to U.S. narcotics trafficking and murder charges on Friday.

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Former Mexican drug cartel leader who generated 'new era' of organized crime is released from US prison

Former Gulf cartel leader Osiel Cárdenas Guillén has been transferred into ICE custody at federal prison in Indiana and may soon be heading back to Mexico, officials say.

Opinion 6 hours ago

Kamala Harris' border crisis legacy: Hundreds of thousands of missing and exploited children

Biden-Harris officials are prioritizing speed over safety when processing the thousands of minors crossing the border, even releasing them to sexual predators and those with ties to gang members.

U.S. 6 hours ago

'Cowboy Cartel': Mexican drug lords' American racehorse ring hid deadly crime enterprise

"Cowboy Cartel," a new docuseries, dives into Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas' involvement in U.S. horse racing and how American investigators took it down.

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Drug cartels using bomb-dropping drones have killed Mexican army soldiers: report

On Friday, The Mexican army acknowledged to the Associated Press that some of its soldiers have been killed by bomb-dropping drones operated by drug cartels.

U.S. 6 hours ago

El Chapo's son pleads not guilty in Chicago court after arrest in Texas with cartel leader ‘El Mayo’

Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, pleaded not guilty in Chicago federal court after his arrest in Texas on Thursday.

U.S. 6 hours ago

Border smugglers use social media to brag about trafficking migrants to US: ‘This is criminal,’ expert says

Human smugglers are using social media apps to boast about helping migrants cross into the U.S. and gloat about the ease with which they evade authorities

Opinion 6 hours ago

Biden's border crisis: Why his new executive order doesn't really matter

The bottom line is that the chaos at the border is 100% President Biden’s doing. Limiting illegal entries to 2,500 a day is political theater.

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Mexicans go to the polls amid record violence against candidates, officials

As Mexicans go to the polls Sunday to vote for a new president, the country is facing its most violent election campaign in its history with more than 225 candidates and officials killed.

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Mexico's drug cartels and gangs appear to be playing a wider role in Sunday's elections than before

Gangs and drug cartels in Mexico seem to be playing a wider role in the upcoming elections that will determine the presidency, nine governorships, and around 19,000 mayorships and other posts.

U.S. 6 hours ago

‘Symbolic’ $4.6B punishment against cartel that murdered Americans takes creative legal turn to become reality

A judge ordered that families of victims of a Mexican cartel ambush of three moms and 14 kids be paid $4.64 billion, which was considered symbolic at the time.

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Mexican presidential candidate Sheinbaum, who promises to cut crime, faces huge hurdles from powerful cartels

Front-runner in Mexico's presidential election, Claudia Sheinbaum, who greatly reduced Mexico City's murder while mayor, faces challenges to repeating her success on a national scale.

U.S. 6 hours ago

Indiana beauty queen arrested in Mexican cartel bust that included one of feds' most wanted fugitives

A beauty queen was arrested as part of a major cartel bust, which included 18 suspects as of last week, and was accused of using her job to transport cash

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Mexican authorities find bodies of 4 men, 2 women piled up in resort city

Prosecutors in Mexico's southern Guerrero state say the strangled bodies of four men and two women have been found piled up on a street in Acapulco.

U.S. 6 hours ago

'Most ruthless' Mexican cartels operate in all 50 states, bring turf wars to US: DEA

Mexico's "most powerful and ruthless" cartel - The Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG)- operates in all 50 state and is competing with a rival cartel in the US, the DEA said

U.S. 6 hours ago

Killers in Mexico 'can look like anyone' as cartels use women, kids as assassins, PI warns

Women and children at young as 7 are being used as Mexican cartel assassins, private investigator said, adding that "the bad guys don't look like bad guys."

U.S. 6 hours ago

Surfers' deaths in Mexico 'eerily' similar to San Diego couple's murders: 'Anyone can be killed for anything'

The murders of three surfers in Mexico, including an American who was engaged to be married in August, "is eerily similar" to a 2020 murder of San Diego couple, a private investigator said.

Politics 6 hours ago

Chinese money laundering criminals team up with Mexican cartels to menace US, officials warn Congress

U.S. senators on Capitol Hill were warned about Chinese money launderers working with Mexican drug traffickers to use money for the funding of illegal drugs such as fentanyl.

World 6 hours ago

A retired Catholic bishop who tried to mediate between cartels in Mexico is briefly kidnapped

The Mexican Council of Bishops has said a retired Roman Catholic bishop who tried to mediate between drug cartels was apparently kidnapped, but later located and brought to a hospital.

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AMLO calls gangs, cartels 'respectful people' who 'respect the citizenry'

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Thursday that the country's gangs and cartels generally "respect the citizenry" in favor of killing each other.

U.S. 6 hours ago

Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' denied request for phone calls, visits: 'Unprecedented discrimination'

'El Chapo' penned a letter to a New York federal judge begging him to reinstate his phone calls and visitation rights while serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison.

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Mexico faces dire medical fentanyl shortage despite being world's top illegal producer

Mexico is reporting a dire shortage of fentanyl for medical use, despite the overwhelming amounts of the drug being illegally produced by the country's cartels.

U.S. 6 hours ago

Dozens charged in international drug smuggling operation linked to brutal Mexican cartel

Federal prosecutors have charged dozens of men in an international drug smuggling operation orchestrated by Mexico’s brutal Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).

U.S. 6 hours ago

Mexican cartels use US border to arm themselves with 'military-grade' weapons: docs

Five men in multiple cities throughout Texas allegedly bought over 100 "military-grade" guns to arm Mexican drug cartels, according to a federal indictment.

U.S. 6 hours ago

Brutally violent Mexican cartel draining Americans' life savings in complex scam

A violent Mexican cartel is stealing tens of millions of dollars from Americans without bloodshed by executing a complex, well-thought-out timeshare scam.

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Mexican authorities find 5 dead bodies loaded into bulletproof SUV

Prosecutors in Mexico's tumultuous Jalisco state announced Wednesday the discovery of five dead bodies piled into a bulletproof vehicle.

World 6 hours ago

Who is 'Barbecue,' the gang leader wreaking havoc in Haiti?

Jimmy Cherizier, known by the nickname “Barbecue," has recently threatened "genocide" if Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry does not step down.

Politics 6 hours ago

CNN forced to correct story after accusations of 'smear' campaign against Katie Britt

CNN was forced to issue a correction to an article targeting Republican Alabama Sen. Katie Britt over her reference to a human trafficking victim during her State of the Union rebuttal.