New mayor takes office days after predecessor was beheaded
Gustavo Alarcón, a doctor, was sworn in days after his predecessor was killed and beheaded.
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Gustavo Alarcón, a doctor, was sworn in days after his predecessor was killed and beheaded.
Mayor Alejandro Arcos had been sworn into office less than a week before he was murdered.
Alejandro Arcos' murder came days after the killing of another city official. according to the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
The victims -- three women and nine men -- were found on roads, bridges and avenues, and one was dismembered, officials said.
Police said three bodies of those killed were found inside the rehab center while a fourth was found in the street.
The city on the border with Arizona has suffered years of violence between drug cartels fighting for control of the border crossing.
The U.S. sanctioned two Mexican businesses for allegedly using proceeds of fentanyl trafficking to finance their operations tied to the Sinaloa cartel.
The uptick in violence comes after the surprise arrest on U.S. soil of Sinaloa Cartel co-founder Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada in July.
Mexican cartels are flooding the U.S. with fentanyl and are to blame for tens of thousands of American deaths last year, DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said. The U.S. is "losing a generation" to the drug.
Two warring factions of the Sinaloa cartel appear to be fighting for power since two of its leaders were arrested in the U.S.
The clashes follow the arrests on U.S. soil of Sinaloa Cartel co-founder Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, as well as Joaquin Guzman Lopez, a son of El Chapo.
Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada said he was forcibly kidnapped and brought to the U.S. by another fugitive cartel leader, Joaquín Guzmán López.
The U.S. says Ivan Cazarin Molina answers directly to Jalisco cartel leader "El Mencho" who has a $10 million bounty on his head.
The arrest of Gildardo Lopez Astudillo comes as relatives are preparing demonstrations to mark the anniversary of the mass disappearance.
Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, co-founder of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, was arrested along with Joaquín Guzmán López after landing at an airport near El Paso in July.
Former Gulf Cartel leader Osiel Cardenas Guillen once led Los Zetas, one of the country's most bloodthirsty gangs until its collapse.
There have been fears that wider violence might break out following recent detentions of top Sinaloa cartel leaders in the U.S.
Seven guards were killed just days after seven members of a community police force were kidnapped, apparently by cartel gunmen.
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.
One reporter told Mexico's president that his supporters had harassed her and complained that his polarization of society has put journalists at risk.
Mexican prosecutors now say they are considering bringing treason charges against those who handed Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada over.
Alejandro Martínez's wounded bodyguards drove him to a hospital, where he died, authorities said.
A former Cancun police officer was found at the scene going through the pockets of one of the bodies, police said.
Officials released video showing the detained suspect, who is accused of leading the largest "narco sailboat" organization in the world.