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Mexico border have intensified their focus on Hugo Gonzalo Mendoza Gaytán, known as "El Sapo" or "El 90." This is his story.

According to the U.S. Bureau of International Labor Affairs, an estimated 30,000 children are involved in criminal groups in ...

Members of Guerreros Buscadores pray at the Izaguirre Ranch where they located three human crematoriums while searching for ...

Both are among six Mexican organized crime groups recently ... allegedly in charge of the cartel's recruitment. The Jalisco cartel employs three recruiting methods: there are volunteers drawn ...

The Mexican drug cartel murders of youths and two senior aides to the Mexico City mayor underlined the importance of ...

Disappearances have soared in Mexico since the government declared ... her son Robert Reyes is also a victim of forced recruitment by a drug cartel. The teenager disappeared a year ago after ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A ranch in the western Mexican state of Jalisco was used for cartel recruitment and training, but federal investigators found no evidence of bodies being burned there ...

Sol remembers her first kill for a Mexican cartel: a kidnapping she committed with a handful of other young recruits that ...

MEXICO CITY — A ranch in the western Mexican state of Jalisco was used for cartel recruitment and training, but federal investigators found no evidence of bodies being burned there, Attorney ...

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