Everyone in Mexico knew that drug cartels were murdering people, but they rarely made such a show of it. Then, in 2005, a ...

Last July, “El Mayo” was finally caught after being lured into the U.S. as part of an elaborate sting operation masterminded ...

David Luhnow is the U.K. bureau chief at The Wall Street Journal. Before that, he was editor for Latin America.

The fierce debate over narcocorridos, which opponents say glorify cartels and thus the harm they have inflicted on Mexicans, ...

Sinaloa Cartel co-founder Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada could seek a deal with U.S. authorities to avoid the death penalty as a ...

The wife of convicted drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was arrested Tuesday on charges of helping her husband run his cartel and aiding his 2015 escape from a Mexican prison. Emma Coronel Aispuro, ...

Jack Riley, the former DEA official who led the capture of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in 2016, said he wishes the former Mexican cartel leader was sentenced to death. “He is truly a mass murderer of ...

For over 10 years, the Olascoagas have controlled the lives and economies of dozens of municipalities in Guerrero and the ...

On top of the hundreds of homicides, more than 1,300 people have gone missing, according to data from Noroeste ...

The boxer has taken his time to make his heirs. Boxer Saul "Canelo" Alvarez, who is one of the most recognized and highest paid athletes, is the father of four children with different partners. Here ...

El Mencho ordered trailers to be set alight and highways blocked in Michoacán, Jalisco, and Guanajuato. Two police officers ...

It took its current form in 2018, under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador—a pugnacious, swaggering populist known ...