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.

Mexican authorities arrested a suspected member of the Los Ardillos criminal group, seized 11 stolen vehicles, 28 kilos of marijuana, weapons, cartridges, and three Bengal tigers, the local Prosecutor’s Office said.

Whether mashed into guacamole or smeared on toast, avocados, the popular, fatty ‘super food’, almost got a lot more expensive last week, when Washington shut the gates to its largest supplier of the fruit, Mexico, over threats to U.S. health inspectors.

A group of armed men shot on Sunday at a vehicle, severely injuring the Mayor of San Pedro Tapanatepec and killing two other passengers in the latest attack presumed to have been carried out by organized crime against Mexican officials.

Mexican authorities have arrested two people after the murder of a Mexican journalist who has now become the fifth reporter in a month to be killed most likely over his work in what the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called the deadliest country for journalists in the Western Hemisphere.

Mexican authorities found the bodies of 18 people who are presumed to be the victims of a massacre that was committed over the weekend in Greater Zacatecas, northwest of Mexico City, by a criminal group.

A Mexican journalist who investigated corruption around the country and had been fearful for her life since 2019 was shot and killed outside her home in Tijuana on Sunday.

Starting next month, the U.S. will ban Mexican fishing vessels from calling in U.S. ports in the Gulf of Mexico over concerns about illegal fishing.

As their once-lush region runs dry, farmers in a Coahuilan wetland allege misconduct by huge dairy firms and Mexico’s state water agency.

Mexican authorities said they arrested a man suspected of illegally intercepting a journalist’s private communications with the infamous Pegasus spyware.

The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned four Mexican nationals last week, accusing them of trafficking large quantities of fentanyl and other dangerous substances into the United States on behalf of the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), one of Mexico’s most dangerous criminal organizations.

The United States sanctioned on Wednesday a Sinaloa cartel boss and seven other Mexicans for smuggling tons of fentanyl and other drugs into the U.S., the Department of Treasury said in a statement.