U.S. sanctions Chinese suppliers of chemicals for fentanyl production
The DEA has been calling on the Chinese government to crack down on supply chain networks producing precursor chemicals.
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The DEA has been calling on the Chinese government to crack down on supply chain networks producing precursor chemicals.
At one point, the two survivors said the cartel tried to make them have sex.
Surveillance video showing last year's kidnapping in Mexico of Monica de Leon Barba, a U.S. citizen from the Bay Area, was released Thursday by FBI's San Francisco office along with new details in the case.
Prosecutors said Wilmer Trivett was believed to have been involved in a traffic accident with the two suspects some time prior to going missing.
The bodies were found in the city's hotel zone near the beach as Cancun kicked off the Easter Week vacations.
The U.S. State Department is sending out a spring break travel alert for Mexico following a string of kidnappings and violent crimes.
Photos showed police, the Mexican National Guard and a vehicle from the attorney general's office at the Fiesta Americana hotel.
The elaborately carved statue is believed to have been made sometime between 800-400 B.C., the National Anthropology and History Institute said.
Monica de Leon Barba, 29, was last seen walking her dog home from work in Tepatitlán, Jalisco, Mexico, authorities said.
"Authorities are on the hunt for those responsible for this incident," prosecutors said.
Prosecutors distributed photos of the big cat resting in its cage alongside a dog, hoping residents will phone police if they see the tiger.
Video shows guards walking away as the blaze broke out. Mexico's president says migrants started the inferno by setting mattresses on fire in protest after learning they were going to be deported or moved.
The fire broke out overnight in the facility in Ciudad Juárez, right on the U.S. border. Most of the dead were Guatemalan nationals.
The counterfeit medications were tainted with substances including fentanyl and methamphetamine, the department said.
The State Department and the Texas Department of Public Safety is urging the public against spring break vacations in Mexico amid the threat of kidnappings, crime and violence.
"They threw tear gas at us," said one of the Venezuelans frustrated by a new U.S. government app meant to handle asylum applications.
U.S. authorities say three women haven't been heard from since they traveled from Texas into Mexico two weeks ago.
A photograph of five men face down on the pavement and bound accompanied the apology letter.
One of the surviving U.S. citizens was wounded and the other wasn't, Tamaulipas Gov. Américo Villarreal said.
On Tuesday, Mexican and U.S. officials said two of the four U.S. citizens who went missing have been found dead and two are alive.
In countries such as Mexico, Costa Rica or Thailand, the cost of a facelift or dental implant can be half as much as in the U.S.
The agency says their vehicle was fired on after it entered Matamoros, a city home to warring Gulf drug cartel factions.
Friends and family of an Alpine County man missing in Mexico are forming search parties across the border to find him.
The state prosecutor said there was enough evidence to identify about half of the people found in the two graves.
The army said the outdoor lab was discovered in the capital of Sinaloa, which is home to the drug cartel of the same name.
