Mexico Cartels

• Mexican president’s state of the union avoids drugs, violence despite high levels

  Experts and residents agree that drug cartels effectively control wide swaths of Mexico, but President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador mentioned gangs — and drugs — exactly zero times.

  World

  Sep 1, 2023
  
• Monument set to honour 9 U.S.-Mexican citizens ambushed, slain in cartel murders

  The mostly bilingual American-Mexicans have lived in northern Mexico for decades and consider themselves Mormons.

  World

  Jan 12, 2020
  
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• Relatives of women, children killed in Mexico cartel murders debate leaving their homes

  The gangland ambush by cartel gunmen in November on a dusty road in northern Mexico left three mothers and six children dead.

  World

  Jan 11, 2020
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• 26 plastic bags containing body parts found in Mexican state of Jalisco

  The remains were taken to the state forensic science institute for identification.

  World

  Jan 9, 2020
• Trump ‘temporarily’ holds off on listing Mexican cartels as terrorist groups

  It was unclear if Mexico had promised Trump anything in return for suspending the designation, which could have caused Mexico headaches.

  World

  Dec 6, 2019
• El Chapo’s Sinaloa cartel made nearly $3M a day in Canada, former DEA agent claims

  A former undercover agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency claims the cartel targeted Canada because of its weak national policing.

  World

  Jan 9, 2019
• Baby shower shooting in Mexico City leaves man, 2 children dead

  Authorities in northern Mexico say a drug dispute may have been the motive in a shooting attack on a baby shower that killed two children and an adult.

  World

  Nov 27, 2016
• El Chapo judge fatally shot in head outside of his Mexico home

  Judge Vicente Bermudez handled several legal challenges lodged by lawyers for Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the jailed leader of the Sinaloa Cartel.

  World

  Oct 19, 2016
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• Mexico’s federal police chief fired over execution allegations

  Mexico's president dismissed the chief of the federal police force Monday, following a scathing report alleging federal police "executed arbitrarily" at least 22 suspected drug cartel members during a raid on a ranch.

  World

  Aug 29, 2016
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• El Chapo’s son may be among men abducted by gunmen from Mexican restaurant

  The son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman may be among the half-dozen men abducted by gunmen at a restaurant in the Mexican beach resort of Puerto Vallarta.

  Crime

  Aug 16, 2016