The "hugs not bullets" security strategy introduced by Mexico's former president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to tackle ...

In September, Lopez Obrador said that the United States shared responsibility for cartel infighting that erupted following ...

U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar has lashed out at Mexico's failure to accept aid in the fight against drug cartels, claiming the ...

FILE - In this courtroom sketch, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, center, is seated beside his defense attorney Frank Perez, left, in federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Sept.

A Sinaloa politician was reportedly sent a message that read "tell everyone that, whoever is not with us, is going to be killed" ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a longtime leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel who is facing drug trafficking charges in a U.S. court, appeared for the first time Friday before the ...

Mexico's Attorney General, Alejandro Gertz Manero, says information about the pilot and the aircraft that took Zambada to the ...

Sinaloa has seen a surge in violence since the July arrest of the cartel's co-founder Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada in the United States. Zambada's arrest triggered a war between his relatives and the ...

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