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The Mexican drug war (also known as the Mexican war on drugs; Spanish: Guerra contra el narcotráfico en México, shortened to and commonly known inside Mexico as the war against the narco; Spanish: Guerra contra el narco) [30] is an ongoing asymmetric [31] [32] armed conflict between the Mexican government and various drug trafficking syndicates.
Mexican drug cartels are leading suppliers of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and other illicit narcotics to the United States. The cartels and the drug trade fuel rampant corruption and...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Cellphone chats have become death sentences in the continuing, bloody factional war inside Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel. Cartel gunmen stop youths on the street or in their cars and demand their phones.
An explosive deception has ripped apart one of Mexico’s most powerful criminal groups, the Sinaloa cartel, and ignited a war between the rival factions.
Mexico's ongoing drug war is a brutal and complex conflict, marked by staggering levels of violence and a seemingly intractable cycle of bloodshed. For years, the country has grappled with powerful cartels vying for control of lucrative drug trafficking routes, leading to a humanitarian crisis with devastating consequences for its citizens. ...
Last week, the Mexican government released new data showing that between 2007 and 2014 — a period that accounts for some of the bloodiest years of the nation’s war against the drug cartels —...
Mexico faces a crisis of kidnappings, disappearances, and other criminal violence that has left over thirty-thousand people dead each year since 2018. Gangs and drug cartels largely perpetrate...
The timeline of some of the most relevant events in the Mexican drug war is set out below. Although violence between drug cartels had been occurring for three decades, the Mexican government held a generally passive stance regarding cartel violence through the 1980s and early 2000s.
Earlier, Mexico's top security official, Omar García Harfuch, had announced on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the fentanyl pills seized at two properties in Sinaloa were worth $394m (£309m ...
Recent abduction and arrest of a top drug lord has set off a vicious war inside Mexico’s most violent cartel. Culiacan, Mexico – The man is lying, top off, trousers pulled down, amid the rubbish...
David A. Shirk analyzes the drug war in Mexico, explores Mexico’s capacities and limitations, examines the factors that have undermined effective state performance, assesses the prospects for...
Throughout its drug war, the United States has extended its anti-crime agenda abroad through the Drug ... and human trafficking. She is author of Los Zetas Inc.: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico (University of Texas Press, 2017; Spanish version: Planeta, 2018). Dr. Correa-Cabrera is Past President of the Association for ...
Mexico's brutal drug war claims thousands of lives every year, as powerful trafficking groups battle it out for territory and influence.
A diplomatic row has frozen U.S.-Mexican efforts to target drug cartels. American officials say illicit fentanyl from labs in Mexico is driving a surge in overdose deaths.
It was a chaotic six hours that saw lawmakers climbing walls in a bid to stop President Yoon’s martial law from taking effect, with police and military troops blocking their way. Here’s how it...
U.S. demand for cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin fuels vicious, well-funded criminal organizations that thrive in a Mexico rife with corruption and lawlessness. The cartels use their riches to...
More than 60,000 people have disappeared in Mexico since the start of the country's war on drugs in 2006, according to authorities. The number is far higher than previous estimates of around...
Jalisco, Mexico’s most militarily powerful drug gang, has begun organizing townspeople to act as human shields against army troops, which now just try to keep rival cartels apart.
Organised crime and violence are hardly new to Mexico. The country’s first cocaine cartel formed in the early 1980s. A quarter of a century later, conservative President Felipe Calderón...
CELAYA, Mexico — The butcher had been killed and no one knew why. The execution occurred in broad daylight as he worked in a family-owned restaurant, one of many murders that go unsolved every...
A drug cartel hijacked and burned more than a dozen vehicles across Tijuana and killed innocent bystanders in the region during a spree of violence. But can officials reassure a nervous city?
By 2018, faced with deadly synthetic narcotics pouring across the U.S. border, the Drug Enforcement Administration, Customs and Border Protection and other U.S. agencies adapted it to go after...
Civilian women, as well as young women and girls, [23] in Mexico have been physically and psychologically harmed in the conflict. A number have had little protection because of corruption, impunity, and apathy. Businesswomen and female farmers and laborers are threatened and coerced to pay taxes to drug gangs. [24] Other women are forced to cultivate or pack drugs. [13]
The chemicals were then distributed and used by the CJNG and other Mexican drug trafficking organizations to manufacture controlled substances, which were then imported into the United States. “Pulido Coracero will now face justice for allegedly conspiring with the Jalisco Cartel, one of the two Mexican cartels responsible for the deadly ...