Mexico has sent 2,500 troops to strengthen security in the west of the country after the death of top drug lord El Mencho in a military operation, Defense Secretary Ricardo Trevilla said on Monday.

Mexican drug cartels are forcing indigenous children and teens to join their ranks, torturing or killing those who refuse, the United Nations warned Friday. The UN’s special rapporteur on indigenous ...

In the rugged mountains of Guerrero, the most violent state in a Mexico awash in blood, the civilians who have taken up arms to protect their communities often tell a similar story. It goes something ...

“While some are celebrating goals, others are getting massacred by drones carrying bombs,” one resident said.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A retired Roman Catholic bishop who was famous for trying to mediate between drug cartels in Mexico was located and taken to a hospital after apparently being briefly kidnapped, the ...

Mexican authorities discovered four decapitated bodies inside an abandoned vehicle parked in front of a government building in the southern state of Guerrero, officials said. The discovery was ...

A MEXICAN drug cartel is launching violent drone attacks on helpless communities while local cops are distracted by the World Cup. Settlements have faced bombing campaigns and shooting rampages as ...

Mexico’s military offensive against drug cartels in the state of Sinaloa—the country’s fentanyl production hub—has failed to significantly disrupt the supply of the deadly synthetic opioid to the ...

Drug kingpin Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes may be dead, but the Jalisco cartel he ran for years will likely outlive him—thanks, in part, to the criminal group’s embrace of technology. “El ...

The U.S. anti-drug strategy has taken an unprecedented turn. The killing in Venezuela of Hector “El Niño” Guerrero — the alleged top leader of Tren de Aragua gang — triggered a direct message to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MEXICO CITY (AP) — A retired Roman Catholic ...