Alleged cartel boss linked to 43 missing students is arrested
The arrest of Gildardo Lopez Astudillo comes as relatives are preparing demonstrations to mark the anniversary of the mass disappearance.
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The arrest of Gildardo Lopez Astudillo comes as relatives are preparing demonstrations to mark the anniversary of the mass disappearance.
Former Gulf Cartel leader Osiel Cardenas Guillen once led Los Zetas, one of the country's most bloodthirsty gangs until its collapse.
The strange saga of how two Mexican drug lords were detained after landing in a plane in the U.S. just got stranger.
The governor acknowledged that 10 killings were related to the dispute between warring factions of the Sinaloa cartel.
Mexican prosecutors now say they are considering bringing treason charges against those who handed Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada over.
The leader of Mexico's notorious Sinaloa cartel, along with a son of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, were arrested in El Paso.
More women, children and entire families have fallen victim to indiscriminate violence in areas where drug cartels are fighting bloody turf battles.
The Jalisco New Generation drug cartel has reportedly killed call center workers who try to quit.
Last weekend, two USDA employees were assaulted and temporarily held by assailants in the Mexican state of Michoacan.
Two children and four women were killed and two men survived because they hid on the roof, officials said.
Yolanda Sanchez Figueroa's murder comes after Claudia Sheinbaum's landslide victory injected hope for change in a country riven by gender-based violence.
He is thought to be a close associate of the sons of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who is serving a life sentence in the U.S.
The bloodshed in Chiapas marks at least the fourth mass killing in Mexico in about a week.
The town's mayor, Rafael Vargas, called the attack "a terrible violent act."
Nine men were found dead in the city of Morelos in Zacatecas — a day after nine bodies were found on an avenue in the city of Fresnillo.
Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and their American friend have not been seen since April 27.
Police responding to reports of a criminal gang clash found 5 bodies in a remote Mexican town not far from the location of a 2020 massacre.
The Colombian navy released images of the seizure of the sub, as well as video showing officers unloading bundles of the alleged narcotics.
Authorities in Ecuador say 8 "terrorists" killed, 27 escapees captured after "war" with drug gangs erupts in deadly mayhem at nation's prisons.
The victims were young people participating in a religious gathering to celebrate aspects of the story of Christmas, a foundation said.
The shootings come just days after three journalists were abducted and held for days, also in the Mexican state of Guerrero, which has been the scene of deadly turf battles between gangs and cartels.
Amid reports that death threats were being made against Mexican singer Peso Pluma, the artist has officially canceled an upcoming concert in Mexico.
One of the first cases to expose the pipeline of guns from the United States to Mexican cartels involved an Oklahoma man smuggling ghost gun parts across the border through Laredo, Texas.
"We have allowed the cartels to amass an army," a former ATF senior special agent told CBS News.
It comes just two days after the wife of "El Chapo" was released from a federal prison in Texas after serving a three-year sentence for helping to run her husband's drug operation.
