cartels

Mexico has already suffered the consequences of a lack of control over those who abandon the army

The presence and control drug cartels possess over large regions of the country can only be explained by their power to corrupt the authorities

Zambada said he paid “a few million” dollars to a Mexico City government official while López Obrador was the mayor

He began his criminal career and 12, by age 15 he had already murdered and kidnapped someone

Guzmán Salazar coordinated the Sinaloa's cartel cocaine, weed, and heroin transportation to the US between 2004 and 2005, and an arrest warrant was issued against him in 2009

MEXICO-CORRUPTION: Edgar Veytia, 46, was arrested earlier this week after U.S. border agents stopped him and ran his name as he tried to enter the United States from Mexico

Doña Lety, La Señora, La Narcomami, La Reina del Pacífico and La Emperatriz Ántrax, are just some of the women that authorities have identified as the leaders of several Mexican organized crime groups.

Drug poisoning deaths are currently at their highest ever recorded level, with approximately 129 deaths every day.

In just two years, the Jalisco cartel has gone from controlling no states in Mexico to now controlling 9, including the highly strategic Tijuana entry point, and the U.S.'s entire west coast.

Task force behind El Chapo's capture launches manhunt for organized crime group that ambushed a military convoy transporting fellow drug cartel member, killing five soldiers and wounding 10 others