Drug cartel turf battles cut off a series of towns in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas, near the Guatemala border, Mexico’s president acknowledged Monday. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that the cartels have cut off electrical power in some towns,
The different cartels operating in Mexican border cities are setting up their own “intelligence centers” equipped with cameras, communications and a rudimentary dispatch office from where they send information gathered by their cameras, lookouts or sources to their operators. Criminal organizations like
Gunmen in Mexico reportedly attacked a convoy of vehicles crossing the southern border from the U.S., injuring three people, including Americans. The convoy was crossing a bridge that connects Roma, Texas, to the Mexican town of Miguel Alemán early Saturday when
Drug cartels have returned to western Mexico to extort lime farmers and run protection rackets. Over the weekend, violence erupted in the Michoacan state of Mexico with several convenience stores and vehicles set afire. In response, the Mexican government deployed more than
A Mexican drug cartel is being accused of dropping as many as 33 bombs on the rural community of El Caracol this month. Video out of the small town shows residents looking up into the sky as an explosion can be heard.
The five young men who went missing in Mexico and were later shown on camera being brutally murdered by a Mexican drug cartel were lured to meet the gang with a fake job offer, according to a report. The young men, all
Five young Mexican men who were murdered by a drug cartel were lured to meet gang members on the understanding that they were being offered jobs, before they were ordered to join the criminal organisation, it has been claimed. The boyhood friends, who
New images have showed the house where five students were reportedly killed by the Mexican cartel. One man is said to have been made to decapitate his childhood friend before he himself was killed. According to the Daily Mail, video footage released
Mexican prosecutors are investigating a gruesome drug cartel video that may depict the executions of five young men who went missing after attending a festival in Jalisco last week. The video was making the rounds online Wednesday. Relatives of the young men
Mexico has been taken over by a powerful and brutal criminal syndicate which is feared to be the world’s most powerful. The Sinaloa Cartel is dominating drug trafficking in Mexico through fear and violence against police, judges and rival cartel members. The