While trying to recapture him, Mexican police killed early Thursday morning the leader of a criminal group only days after he and other inmates escaped from prison when members of his gang stormed the facility on January 1, leaving 17 people dead.

Being a journalist has never been more dangerous, according to the most recent Reporters Without Borders (RSF)annual round-up of violence and abuses against journalists, which says that “a record total of 533 journalists are currently detained worldwide.”

Mexican cartels and criminal networks headquartered in the European Union (EU) have been collaborating to traffic methamphetamine and cocaine from Latin America to the EU, Europol and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) revealed in ajoint report Wednesday.

A former member of the Riviera Maya gang was stabbed in Mexico by his onetime comrades. The Mexican prosecutor who led the investigation didn’t even look into them as suspects. Now, it turns out, they may have been paying him off.

A significant amount of Mexican wildlife trade happens on social media and “has a direct and irreversible impact on ecosystems,”says a report published by the Center for Biological Diversity, a U.S.-based non-governmental organization protecting endangered species.

Romanian prosecutors have asked for harsher sentences for six gang members who appealed their initial sentences handed out to them for compromising ATM machines along the Mexican coast and stealing nearly a billion dollars from tourists.

Mexican officials have sued five gun dealers from Arizona for allegedly providing weapons to criminal groups and cartels in Mexico, the Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Affairsreported.

A federal court in California sentenced a Mexican lawyer who served as the Sinaloa cartel’s chief money launder to 15 years in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice announced ina statement.

A Florida judge sent Mexican scientist Héctor Cabrera-Fuentes to jail in June on the charge of being an unregistered foreign agent. Now, reporters have discovered he was involved in discussions with the government of President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador on plans for an ambitious railway project.

Héctor Cabrera-Fuentes, February 2020. (Photo: Archivo Agencia/EL UNIVERSAL)

Mexico extradited to the United States a suspected drug trafficker who is believed to have been part of a vicious cartel responsible for violent murders.

A U.S. federal court found five Latin American drug traffickers guilty on Tuesday for their role in a conspiracy to smuggle as much as 760 kilograms of cocaine into Mexico.

Local Mexican authorities have launched an investigation into the murder of journalist Fredid Roman, who amid the bloodiest year for Mexican media workers, was fatally shot on Monday by armed attackers on motorcyles outside his home in Chilpancingo, the capital of the Pacific southern state of Guerrero.

The office of Mexico’s attorney general said it has launched an investigation into former President Enrique Peña Nieto, weeks after a local anti-money laundering agency filed complaints against him for money laundering and illicit enrichment.

Two people died and one was wounded during a clash between the Mexican Army and the Sinaloa Cartel that erupted after soldiers arrested four cartel members, including the leader of an armed wing of assassins, the Ministry of National Defense reported Tuesday.

Of all Latin American countries, Venezuela and Bolivia are the worst when it comes to tackling corruption and Guatemala, Mexico and Brazil have again found themselves towards the bottom of the list, a study says.

An internationally recognized Mexican scientist who pleaded guilty to acting as an unregistered agent for the Russian government and spying on an FBI informant in the Miami area,was sentenced Tuesday to four years in a U.S. prison.

The Mexican navy is investigating a large theft of military equipment, including uniforms, body armor and other paraphernalia, which is intended to be sold to powerful cartels who could then use it to impersonate the military, the navy’s secretary general revealed ina press conference.

United States federal investigators seized almost a tonne of cocaine, arrested six individuals and uncovered a tunnel connecting Mexico’s Tijuana with Otay Mesa in California and completely bypassed the U.S.-Mexico border, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reported Monday.

In the latest crackdown on violent organized crime groups, Mexican security forces arrested the leaders of two drug cartels, prompting members of their gangs to block roads and shoot at government buildings in retaliation.

Mexican authorities said that they have arrested one of the Gulf Cartel leaders who is suspected of being involved in last year’s murder of 15 members of a rival gang.