The Jalisco cartel in Mexico is now using improvised explosive devices (IEDs) on roads in Michoacan state to disable the army and rival drug cartels' vehicles.
Families and relatives of disappeared persons gathered together to search for their loved ones. (Photo : Reuters) Missing persons in Mexico are estimated to be more than 61,000 since 2006 and families of disappeared persons gathered together to search for their loved ones who are believed to be victims of the country's ongoing war against illegal drugs.
Battles on both sides of the border are being fought over the heroin epidemic. The state of Ohio is suing five major American pharmaceutical firms for their role in creating the conditions that led to the opioid epidemic currently ravaging their state and large swaths of North America.
Mexico's drug war has raged with such intensity that the statistical life expectancy of the country's male citizens has dropped by several months, a new study revealed.
The highly anticipated series coming to Netflix this month, "Narcos," will be debuting all episodes for the original series on Friday. See the trailer here.
This past Saturday Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos announced that he would be putting a stop to the use of herbicide that has been a fundamental part of U.S.-financed attempts to kill coca crops.
Marllory Chacon Rossell, a Guatemalan woman who was in charge of one of the most widely spread drug trafficking and money laundering rings in Central America has been sentenced in secret in the United States.
For a third straight year in a row, statistics in Mexico logged a decline in the murder rate, a trend USA Today deemed "a sign the country is slowly stabilizing after gruesome drug wars." But in the shorter term, the data are still worrisome, Animal Político warned, noting that March was the country's deadliest month out of the last nine.
Gomez was discovered dead in his house in Lazaro Cardenas by Mexican police on Friday. Mexican authorities discovered the body of Aquiles Gomez Martinez, brother to Knights Templar leader "La Tuta" and believed to be one of the group's leaders in his own right.
The military appears to be gaining power in a number of Latin American countries. Since Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet stepped down in March 1990 and an elected president took office, the military has taken a backseat to democratic reforms in Latin America.
Mexican authorities busted a high ranking Gulf drug cartel kingpin on Sunday. Mexican authorities busted a high-ranking Gulf drug cartel kingpin on Sunday.
