Latest Drug cartels News
Drug lords go on killing spree to hunt down corrupt officers who stole shipment in Mexico's Tijuana
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A recent killing spree in the Mexican border city of Tijuana could have been lifted from a TV script: enraged drug lords hunting down corrupt police officers who stole a drug shipment. Two of the officers suspected of the theft have been killed, prosecutors say....
Bloody clash in Mexican hamlet kills 4 villagers and 10 gunmen, including drug cartel's leader
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A clash between gunmen from a notoriously violent drug cartel and residents of a small farming community in central Mexico left 14 people dead, including the cartel's leader, authorities said Saturday. Seven others were injured and still being treated for...
Mexico focuses on looking for people falsely listed as missing, ignores thousands of disappeared
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's government is pouring resources into detecting what it suggests are “fake” missing people — cases reported by political opponents to embarrass the government, or kidnapped people who return home but don't notify authorities. Yet officials make no...
In Mexico, Yellen announces economics sanctions as the US aims to crack down on fentanyl trafficking
WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday announced economic sanctions against 15 people and two companies that the United States says are linked to a Mexican drug cartel as she visited Mexico City for talks with officials about efforts to fight fentanyl trafficking. ...
The bodies of 5 university students are found in a car in a violence-wracked city in Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The bodies of five university students were found stuffed in a vehicle on a dirt road in north-central Mexico, authorities said Monday. Diego Sinhue Rodríguez, the governor of the state of Guanajuato, pledged an “exhaustive” investigation into the killings. ...
Suspected drug cartel members abduct 7 Mexican immigration agents at gunpoint in Cancun
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Suspected drug cartel members abducted seven Mexican immigration agents in Cancun at gunpoint Wednesday, beat them and threatened to kill them before they were freed, authorities said. The brazen mass kidnapping occurred near Cancun’s bustling airport and...
4 news photographers shot in southern Mexico, a case authorities consider attempted murder
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Unidentified assailants on Tuesday wounded four news photographers in the violence-wracked southern Mexican city of Chilpancingo, authorities said. Prosecutors in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero said all four had been taken to a hospital, but did not say...
Editorial Roundup: Georgia
Brunswick News. November 18, 2023. Editorial: Federal, state, local collaborations crucial to fighting crime A federal life sentence given this week to a man already in state prison for murder is the product of something we hope to see more of in the future —...
3 journalists and 2 relatives have been abducted in a violent city in southern Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors said Thursday that three journalists and two of their relatives have been abducted by armed men in a violence-plagued state in Mexico, which press groups say is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists, outside of war zones. ...
Mexican activist who counted murders in his violence-plagued city is himself killed
MEXICO CITY (AP) — An activist who documented murders in one of Mexico’s deadliest cities has himself been killed, authorities confirmed Wednesday. Adolfo Enríquez was killed in the city of Leon, in north-central Guanajuato state. The city has the third-highest number of...
