Mexico has been rocked by retaliatory attacks from the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, known in English as the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), following the death of its leader Nemesio ...

In February 2026, Mexican forces killed the cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes — more commonly known as "El Mencho" in an organized raid on the leader's mountain hideout. Violence ensued as ...

MEXICO CITY: Mexican drug cartels are increasingly calculated in their targeting decisions, often avoiding deliberately attacking American tourists and citizens out of concern it could prompt ...

Over the past two decades, drug cartels in Mexico have grown exponentially to the point that in some parts of the country organized crime groups exert more control than the federal government. To ...

Audias Flores Silva, also known as "El Jardinero," or The Gardener, was seen as a possible successor to "El Mencho," who was killed in February.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum speaks during a briefing at Palacio Nacional in Mexico City last month. (Cristopher Rogel Blanquet / Getty Images) President Trump has deployed military might to ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), along with its law enforcement partners from the DEA, FBI, CBP, the Arizona Department of Public Safety and the ...

The body of the notorious cartel leader known as "El Mencho," who was killed in a military operation last week, was returned to his family, Mexico's attorney general's office said on Saturday. In a ...

The Mexican army guarding the Forensic Expert Center of the Attorney General's Office where the body of the drug lord of the Jalisco New Generation cartel, Nemesio Oceguera known as "El Mencho", is ...