"El Menchito," the son of Jalisco cartel boss Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes, was due to change his plea to guilty this week. Then a new lawyer hired by his family showed up.
A high-ranking member of Mexico's powerful Sinaloa Cartel, formerly led by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, had been extradited to the U.S. to face international drug trafficking and firearms charges.
Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help in stopping chemicals from China used by Mexican drug cartels to illegally produce fentanyl.
Family and friends gathered on Saturday to pay tribute to Shaeed Woodard, one of the two Americans killed by the Gulf cartel in Mexico after they were kidnapped.
Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has rejected claims made by U.S. State Department Secretary Antony Blinken that Mexican drug cartels control some areas in the country.
Osiel Cardenas Jr., the son of Gulf Cartel boss Osiel Cardenas Guillen, was sentenced to more than eight years in prison after he pleaded guilty to gun smuggling charges.
Ruben Oseguera Gonzalez, alias "El Menchito," the son of Jalisco cartel boss Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes, will reportedly plead guilty to drug conspiracy charges in a Washington, D.C. court.
Members of drug cartels in Mexico start young, and this is evident in a teen killer nicknamed "El Chapito," who was arrested by police after he gunned down and killed eight people in a drug-related attack.
The wives of Chicago drug lords - the Flores twins - who cooperated against Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera are planning to enter a guilty plea to money laundering charges filed against them.
A federal judge in the State of Mexico presiding over the case of Ovidio Guzman Lopez, the son of Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, has denied his request for an injunction against his extradition to the United States.
Four of the 17 people detained during the operation to capture Ovidio Guzman Lopez, the son of Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, have been released.
Raul Flores Hernandez, alias "El Tio," a notorious Mexican drug trafficker who worked for both the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), pleaded guilty to charges of cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
Ovidio Guzman Lopez appeared Tuesday before a federal judge in Mexico and suddenly claimed that he is not the son of Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera.
Amid news of the deadly kidnapping of four Americans in Mexico, there were some suggestions floated by Republican lawmakers to label Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups.