drug cartels
Prices to witness solar eclipse soar, hotels charge 10 times regular rates
The total solar eclipse on April 8 could wipe out your wallet as prices for hotels in its path soar.
Popular resorts no longer 'off limits' for cartel killers: 'The rules have changed'
Four warring Mexican drug cartels indiscriminately kill to assert dominance over an 80-mile stretch of resorts along the Caribbean coast.
How Antwerp became the drug den of Europe
When you read a headline like “Four Shootings in Three Days,” it wouldn’t be unfair to think it’s been another violent week in Chicago or possibly Juarez, Mexico. But the...
Mexican president associates reportedly linked to drug cartels but DOJ says he's not under investigation
A formal criminal investigation into President Biden’s Mexican counterpart was never opened, and it is unclear if US authorities were able to independently confirm the allegations brought to them by...
‘El Chapo’s’ granddaughter, 18, joins hunt for Loch Ness Monster while romping through Scotland
"El Chapo's" granddaughter has been living it up on a tour of Europe while her drug-dealing grandpa sits in a federal prison -- and even joined a hunt for the...
Pablo Escobar's 'chief of the hitmen' brother gets cameo in spoof drug cartel movie 'Don't F With Pablo'
“Roberto is astonishing in this film,” writer Ian Halperin said of the one-time "chief of the hitmen." “He seemed a nice guy."
Mexican cartel reportedly flooded this state with fentanyl, meth by targeting Native Americans: 'Prey-predator situation'
“Just like any other prey-predator situation — that’s how it is.”
Mexican cartel violence leaves some Mayan ruins inaccessible to tourists
Multiple ancient Mayan ruins in Mexico are inaccessible due to cartel violence in a blow to tourism in the country's southern state.
Notorious leader of Mexican Gulf drug cartel that killed 2 US tourists captured at high-end shopping mall
José Alberto García Vilano, known as "La Kena," was nabbed at a fancy mall.
Inside Mexico's secret, 'fashionable' and illegal Monkey Clubs: 'It says I have money'
The animals, illegal to keep as pets, are smuggled form the jungles further south and owning one has become a status symbol.
Father on his way to visit son for Christmas shot at 16 times by rival Mexican gangs when GPS took him toward dangerous border crossing
The Christmas Eve shooting comes a week after a US resident was killed and two other people were wounded in a shooting along a Sonora highway.
House Republicans blast Biden menthol ban as ‘huge opportunity’ for Mexican cartels
House Republicans are calling on President Biden to withdraw his administration’s proposal to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, saying the regulation would provide a “huge opportunity” to Mexican cartels.
Bodies of 5 university students found stuffed in car on remote Mexico road in area known for cartel violence
The men – who have not been named publicly – were students at the Latina University of Mexico.
Mexican cartels' violent control of border helping drive US migrant crisis
Mexican drug cartels are increasingly engaged in bloody turf wars south of the US border, with migrant smuggling routes now at stake as much as drug trafficking, according to reports...
Convicted drug trafficker ‘El Mago,’ who was linked to the infamous Sinaloa cartel, shot dead in LA: authorities
A member of the Sinaloa cartel who was pals with the son of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and flaunted pictures of himself posing with Al Pacino and other celebrities...
Biden thanks Mexican president for capturing alleged cartel security boss accused of feeding rivals to tigers
President Biden thanked his Mexican counterpart, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, on Thursday for the capture of one of Mexico’s and the US’s most wanted and brutal criminals, an alleged fentanyl...
Video shows black-clad, rifle-wielding men stalk Texas island caught up in cartel turf war
Shocking video shows the group of rifle-carrying men — assumed Mexican drug cartel operatives — patrolling a Texas island just over the US-Mexico border.
DEA official singled out as 'sexually immoral deviant,' wrongly fired for partying in underwear with 'corrupt' ex-agent: suit
A federal drug enforcement officer claims she was "unjustly profiled as a corrupt agent" because she once partied with now-disgraced DEA agent Jose Irizarry and his wife in Colombia, according...
The Mexican drug cartel kidnapped my daughter and I dared to fight back
The new book “Fear Is Just A Word – A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance” tells the story of Miriam Rodríguez.
El Chapo's Sinaloa drug cartel bars fentanyl production under penalty of death
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's kids have barred the Sinaloa drug cartel from producing fentanyl under penalty of death as US and Mexican law enforcement step up their war on narco-traffickers.