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The abduction of a Mexican community activist who campaigned against an iron ore mine owned by New York-listed Ternium has shone a light on how local cartels benefit from the presence of mining companies in the region.

Organized crime, systemic corruption, and a culture of machismo are fueling a devastating crisis for women and girls in Mexico, where only a tiny minority of human trafficking cases are investigated by authorities.

Among the many horrifying videos posted online amid Mexico’s drug cartel violence, few have been as profoundly shocking as that of a 14-year-old boy kidnapped in late October along with about a dozen family members in the country’s south.

The Mexican Navy said Tuesday it has seized 3.6 tons (about 8,000 pounds) of cocaine aboard a "narco sub" off the Pacific coast which was spotted earlier this week about 153 miles off the resort of Acapulco.

Cellphone chats have become death sentences in the continuing, bloody factional war inside Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel.

The use of Mexico’s now-legendary narco tanks in face-offs between criminal groups is growing, and technological innovations have helped them evolve from being a symbolic emblem to an important tactical weapon on the battlefield.

Some 53 people have been killed and 51 others are missing in Mexico’s western Sinaloa state since rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel began clashing on Sept 9, local authorities said on Friday, with gruesome violence showing no signs of abating.

The United States has released Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, the former Gulf Cartel leader who created the Zetas and ushered in the hyper-violent organized crime wars that have marked Mexico since the turn of the century.

The murders of about a dozen people in the northern Mexico state of Sinaloa appear to be linked to cartel infighting, something authorities had feared would follow the July 25 detention of two top cartel leaders.

Controversy and conflicting narratives persist around the arrests of two top Sinaloa Cartel leaders in the United States, raising questions about what led to the detentions and how the historic leadership blow may impact one of Mexico’s most powerful drug trafficking organizations.

A Facebook page paid millions of pesos to promote content favorable to politicians from the Citizen Movement, including Samuel García, Mariana Rodríguez and Jorge Álvarez Máynez.

Organized crime in Mexico has found the mangroves an ideal, remote spot to hide their synthetic drug laboratories, leaving fishermen in Sinaloa to deal with contamination affecting their homes and livelihoods.

As a propeller plane on Thursday whirred towards the U.S.-Mexico border to cross illegally, U.S. agents raced to meet it at a small municipal airport near El Paso, Texas, and arrest two men who were part of Mexican drug trafficking royalty.

The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Tuesday three Mexican accountants implicated in a timeshare fraud scheme run by one of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels.

A Brazilian drug lord has been arrested after a two-year manhunt thanks in no small part to his Instagram-loving wife – for the second time.

With government complacency, agricultural production companies with million-dollar profits use second-hand vehicles, or vehicles with expired permits, to transport their laborers to the work camps in Jalisco.

The wife of a man who died after being electrocuted in a hot tub at a hotel in Mexico has filed a $1,000,000 lawsuit.

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Known as “la Doctora” for her glittering academic credentials, Claudia Sheinbaum is a physicist with a doctorate in energy engineering, the former mayor of one of the world’s most populous cities///

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Clip on social media showed Jon Benjamin aiming assault rifle at colleague in region rife with drug gangs

Mexico has extradited one of the top leaders of the infamous Sinaloa Cartel who is believed to have been the chief of a group of enforcers tasked with eliminating or intimidating rivals of one of the cartel’s factions, the U.S. Department of Justice stated over the weekend.

The Chiapas municipality that made headlines as a dispute territory for organized crime has been a trafficking center for years where Honduran women are sexually exploited and give birth to children without nationality.

José María Tapia, Morena candidate in Querétaro, bought a residence in the exclusive Woodlands area, north of Houston.