After Mexican security forces arrested a leader of one of the main drug gangs operating in the border city of Reynosa on Friday, gun fights broke out and vehicles in the area were set on fire.
Cesar Gastelum Serrano, a man authorities have described as being a leading cocaine trafficker for Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, was arrested on Saturday in the resort city of Cancun
Mexican farmers are producing more opium to feed a growing heroin addiction in the United States. Mexican farmers are producing more opium to feed a growing heroin addiction in the United States.
Mexican journalists face the very real threat of death from drug cartels who do not wish to be reported on. This, coupled with a lack of faith in what increasingly appears to be a corrupt police force, has led one citizen of Tamaulipas, one of Mexico’s most violent states, to take up the mantle of the media and start reporting on all drug related activity.
Cartel members from Gulf may have been behind the recent killing of a citizen journalist who outed members and posted images of the crimes committed by the gangs.
Mexico's attorney general is accusing the Iguala mayor, his wife and the local police chief to be behind the forced disappearance of 43 students in the state of Guerrero.
It was a difficult three-day walk for 9-year-old Rubi Sanchez and her family as they escaped life from Mexico because of the presence of drug cartels in their state. Now 19 years old, Sanchez recounted her life as an immigrant and recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
President Barack Obama issued a presidential memorandum continuing the U.S. drug interdiction assistance program with the government of Colombia. A similar program for Central American countries, however, may be difficult to execute.
California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris released a report Thursday revealing that the state has become an entry port for methamphetamine sales in the country, the LA Times reported
While illegal drug production and smuggling is what cartels are primarily known for, a recent "Associated Press" report reveals that numerous cartels in Mexico have found alternate ways of making money illegally.
Mexican authorities confirmed Sunday that Nazario Moreno, the head of the drug cartel Knights Templar, died, for the second time in four years, according to the "Washington Post."
