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.

Just days after the opposition leader and former presidential candidate fled the country, prosecutors in Mexico have accused Ricardo Anaya of taking a US$525,000 bribe tied to Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.

Mexican authorities rearrested on Monday one of the seven brothers who ran the notorious Mexican Arellano Felix cartel that used to move tons of drugs from Mexico and Colombia to the United States.

OCCRP is expanding editorial operations into the U.S. and Canada and has named award-winning investigative journalist Kevin G. Hall as its first North America editor. Hall will be based in Washington, D.C., and will lead OCCRP investigations in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. He will also work with more than 40 editors around the world on cross-border investigations and build collaborations and partnerships with key North American media outlets.

Kevin G. Hall.

In an unprecedented move, Mexican officials have sued Smith & Wesson, Beretta, Century Arms, Colt, Glock, Ruger, Barrett and Boston-based gun wholesaler Interstate Arms for negligence in an attempt to halt the ‘iron river’ of guns that flow from the United States every year and end up in the hands of criminals and cartels.

When their children were killed or abducted, the parents of Ayotzinapa relentlessly petitioned their government for truth and justice. But even as they placed their hopes in the federal government, it may have targeted them for invasive surveillance.

Mexican authorities announced that they have overturned the acquittal of former Sinaloa cartel leader Hector Luis Palma Salazar, who ruled the syndicate alongside his childhood friend Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman from the late 1980s until his arrest in 1995. 

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) in Mexico condemned the recent murders of two local journalists who were gunned down in separate attacks last week.

Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office announced last week that three members of the so-called Riviera Maya gang will be tried in connection to compromising ATM machines across the country to steal credit card details from tourists and withdraw money from their accounts.