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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.
Early in his term, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador declared that the drug war in Mexico was over. He said his government would focus more on reducing homicides than on capturing ...
The reality is that the U.S. badly needs Mexico’s cooperation on a host of issues, experts say, not least the mass migration crisis on the southern U.S. border. Mexico is America’s largest ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against a California woman convicted of smuggling drugs across the U.S.-Mexican border who challenged prosecution expert testimony ...
A Mexican bystander, Arely Pablo Servando, was killed when she was struck by a stray bullet during the abduction. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] According to Tamaulipas Governor Américo Villarreal , the cartel moved the kidnapped victims around in an effort to create confusion and avoid efforts to rescue them, and took them to a medical clinic at some point.
The Mexican drug war began in 2006. Ciudad Juárez is a large city in Chihuahua which is next to the United States border, opposite El Paso in Texas. [1] Mexican drug cartels have carried out many attacks in Juárez, including a prison riot in March 2009, an attack on a rehab center in September 2009 and a massacre in January 2010.
An escalating turf war engulfing much of Mexico's heavily Indigenous Chiapas state has displaced thousands as gangs battle for drug- and gun-trafficking routes.
In the most sensational recent instance, Genaro García Luna, Mexico’s former security chief and the former face of the anti-drug war, was convicted in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn last year ...