In a series of nationwide raids, US authorities made more than 600 arrests and issued 350 indictments against suspected members of one of the world’s most violent gangs - the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación or CJNG.

Starting Tuesday, Mexicans can buy special national lottery tickets that will give them a chance to become one of the 100 owners of a luxurious presidential plane which President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has decided to get rid of in an effort to show modesty.

Mexico’s highest federal court intervened Wednesday to block a Mexico City court’s decision that ordered prominent writer and academic Sergio Aguayo Quezada to pay US$530,000 in damages to a high-ranking Mexican politician he accused of corruption in a newspaper article.  

Eight months after she was appointed as Mexico’s first ever Chief Anticorruption Prosecutor, Luz Mijangos Borja has opened 680 investigations, an “impressive” early track record considering the challenges she faced, said a US-based blog covering the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Mexico’s former security minister has been arrested in the United States on charges of cocaine trafficking and accepting millions in bribes to help the Sinaloa cartel traffic drugs.

A weekend gun battle between Mexican security forces and dozens of members of a presumed drug cartel left at least 21 people dead, including four policemen and two bystanders, according to authorities and multiple news reports.

Nancy Garcia’s 16-year-old cousin was picking fruit with his father at a ranch in rural Michoacan when armed gunmen upended his and his family’s life.

Men kidnapped by drug hitmen are seen at a ranch near the municipality of Sabinas Hidalgo, some 100 km away from Monterrey April 27, 2010 (REUTERS/Tomas Bravo).

Mexico’s foreign affairs minister is calling for talks with the United States about President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement that he wants to list Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups.

Nine Americans - including six children - are dead after a highway ambush by a cartel in the Mexican state of Sonora Monday evening.

After a failed arrest in early October, Mexican authorities released on Wednesday a video showing the moment soldiers handed over the son of drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to members of the Sinaloa cartel to avoid bloodshed in the city of Culiacan.

Police found more than 40 skulls, 70 bones and a fetus in a jar during a raid on a suspected drug trafficking hideout in Mexico City on Saturday. The odd find came a few days after 31 cartel member suspects were arrested.

A federal judge ordered on Thursday the release of 27 people, saying they were illegally arrested and evidence against them was fabricated. Police believed the individuals were members of a drug cartel.

Thirteen officers were killed on Monday when 30 people ambushed their convoy that was traveling towards the west Mexican municipality of Aguililla to carry out a court order, authorities said.

The family of imprisoned drug kingpin Joaquin ‘El Chapo'' Guzman is planning on building Mexico’s first indigenous university and hopes President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrado will lay the cornerstone, according to a lawyer claiming to represent him.

Four cartels are battling it out for the lucrative US$1.5 billion dollar avocado trade in western Mexico, the office of a state attorney general has revealed.

Mexico’s president backed the head of the national electricity company, despite charges that he concealed some of his business dealings and made substantial, illicit profits, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

Mexican courts have exonerated 24 individuals suspected of involvement in the 2014 disappearance of 43 students, the Undersecretary of Human Rights, Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez, announced in a Sunday press conference.

A Mexican activist’s family has been looking for answers for a decade, even in Canadian courts. A memorial to Mariano Abarca Roblero. 2010. (Credit: Dawn Paley)

For the twelfth time this year, a journalist has been killed in Mexico, the most dangerous Latin American country for investigators, where dozens of reporters were assassinated over the past decade, human rights advocates said Saturday.

Hundreds of women filled the streets of Mexico City on Friday night to demand greater safety for women and justice for two teenage girls who were allegedly raped by policemen.