NEW YORK -- Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, a longtime leader of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel who is facing drug trafficking charges in a U.S. court, appeared for the first time Friday before the judge who ...

An intense gun battle involving factions of a Mexican drug cartel raged across the southern border this week as both groups exchanged gunfire in an area used to smuggle drugs and migrants.

A shootout between Mexican National Guard troops and suspected drug cartel gunmen near the Tornillo-Guadalupe international bridge left one man wounded and resulted in the seizure of an arsenal of ...

The Mexican navy announced Friday it had seized ... including the powerful Jalisco Nueva Generacion cartel, one of Mexico's most powerful and violent criminal groups. The latest raid reported ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Thursday imposed sanctions on senior members of the armed wing of a Mexican drug cartel that operates on border territories in and around Chihuahua, Mexico.

Brian Jesus Zazueta, 23, is the son of Adolfo Zazueta-Bueno, a significant member of the Sinaloa cartel, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Washington.

MEXICO CITY — Halloween is gaining ground in Mexico, but in a country wracked by drug cartel violence there are real fears about ghosts, ghouls and skeletons walking the streets. The concern isn ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said his murder was being investigated and would not go unpunished. Mexico's bishops' conference described Father Marcelo as one of the "prophetic voices" that had ...

“Although he swore an oath to protect the Mexican people from the scourge of addiction and violence caused by the drug cartels, he was instead a double agent secretly acting to further the ...

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