MEXICO CITY — Body parts found inside freezers, bodies hanging from bridges, young men killing each other under cartel orders. Mexico is no stranger to displays of brutality put on by the nation’s ...

The deaths of 20 people at a clandestine fight in Mexico’s state of Michoacán has revealed how a fairly small criminal group, the Correa, is seeking to stand up to the firepower and resources of the ...

Otto Fernando Godoy Cordón, a former colonel in the Guatemalan military, is led away by Guatemalan authorities. A former Guatemalan colonel has confessed to assisting the Jalisco Cartel New Generation ...

In a move against one of Mexico's most brutal and prolific criminal organizations, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today announced sanctions against five ...

A deadly alliance between two of Mexico's most powerful gangs has threatened to intensify the nation's drug war - and it could have a significant impact on America. CJNG and Los Chapitos, two of the ...

(The Center Square) – The U.S. Treasury hit top Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion leaders with fresh sanctions on Wednesday as the Trump administration cracks down ...

Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions that may not be suitable for all audiences. MORELIA, Mexico ― “I had to burn some guys alive; that was my first task,” the 18-year-old said with some ...

A former Mexican police officer, known as a symbol of the fight against drug cartels after emerging as the lone survivor of a 2015 attack on a military helicopter, died in an ambush April 30. An SUV ...

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