Mexican cartel
Mexican army kills 'El Melcho': How is Mexico's most violent cartel so powerful? - explainer
With high-caliber weapons and military-grade equipment, the CJNG is one of Mexico's most powerful and violent drug cartels. But how did it gain so much power?
New US military-led group aided Mexico's hunt for 'El Mencho' cartel boss
Powerful Mexican Jalisco cartel head 'El Mencho' killed during military operation
Flight grounding lifted at El Paso airport after Mexican drone alert
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Murder of Mexican journalist marks third killing in one week
Jorge Ruiz Vazquez, a reporter at the Grafico de Xalapa newspaper in Veracruz's capital, died in spite of procedures in place to protect him, the state prosecutor's office said.
