Mexico: body of missing journalist found in Nayarit state
La Jornada said the body of Luis Martín Sánchez Iñiguez was found on the outskirts of Tepic, capital of the coastal state A journalist from...
Category : Drugs trade
Hipólito Mora, vigilante crusader against Mexico’s drug cartels, killed in ambush
One of the leaders of the violence-scarred country’s ‘self-defense’ movement was cut down in rural Michoacán One of the founders of Mexico’s “self-defense” movement, the...
Peruvian police seize 58kg of cocaine bearing pictures of Nazi flag
Drugs found in shipment said to be destined for Belgium also had the name Hitler printed on them Peruvian anti-drug police have seized 58 one-kilo...
US senator denounced as ‘profoundly ignorant man’ over remarks on Mexico
John Kennedy’s comments about Mexicans ‘eating cat food’ came as he urged the US military to enter country to ‘stop the cartels’ Mexicans “would be...
US charges 28 members of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel including El Chapo’s sons
Charges filed against cartel leaders, alleged chemical suppliers, lab managers, traffickers and others in fentanyl investigation The US justice department has charged 28 members of...
Mexican president bemoans ‘rude’ US fentanyl pressure in plea to Xi Jinping
Andrés Manuel López Obrador asks China to curb exports of opioid after lengthy denunciation of similar calls from US Mexico’s president has written to his...
Mexican president blames US fentanyl crisis on ‘lack of hugs’ among families
Andrés Manuel López Obrador cites a lack ‘of hugs and embraces’ for 70,000 annual overdose deaths attributed to synthetic opioid Mexico’s president has said that...
Mexico’s former drugs tsar Genaro Garcia Luna convicted for aiding El Chapo cartel
Garcia Luna took millions in bribes from Sinaloa gang, Brooklyn corruption trial told A former Mexican law enforcement official once in charge of the fight...
Ex-Mexico security chief’s trial poised to lift lid on US and Mexico’s ‘war on drugs’
Genaro García Luna, accused of accepting millions in bribes from cartels, in trial that could implicate officials on both sides of border One of Mexico’s...
Sinaloa cartel launches violent response as Mexico recaptures El Chapo’s son
Ovidio Guzmán’s arrest on Thursday prompted heavy fighting from cartel gunmen in the city of Culiacán Mexican authorities have captured Ovidio Guzmán, a son of...
