Cecilio Pinneda Brito, founder of La Voz de Tierra Caliente, collaborated with various other media outlets and also published reports via Facebook, was apparently receiving threats on a weekly basis, mostly through social media
The German and his brother in-law were beat and tortured before being shot dead inside the night club early February
"In the absence of their leader, (rival factions) are fighting over who will control the organization,"
Since Mexico's top drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán was extradited to a U.S. jail, gunfights in broad daylight have rocked his home state of Sinaloa
The official said that a helicopter gunship had been called in to provide "dissuasive fire," to suppress outgoing gunfire from the structure on Thursday
Authorities found the decapitated bodies of three municipal police officers on Saturday in a suspected gang-related slaying in southeastern Mexico
As a condition of his extradition, U.S. prosecutors assured Mexican officials that they would not seek the death penalty.
A police official in the northern state of Tamaulipas says the killings in the state capital of Ciudad Victoria appeared related to a dispute over control of street-level drug dealing
Mexican drug cartels are reshaping themselves after the recent arrest of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, as well as the extradition or death of former drug kingpins
Federal soldiers and state police secured a drug lab containing over 5 kilograms of crystal meth, as well as several drums filled with unidentified substances