The U.S. Department of State updated travel advisories warning tourists about increases in crime and violence in certain Mexican states that have reached the same security designation as the Afghanistan war zone.
Spanish authorities re-opened a money laundering probe targeting the former governor of a Mexican border state who was linked to Los Zetas Cartel in U.S. federal court cases.
Mexican citizens began protesting the migrant caravan arriving in Tijuana as they attempt to claim asylum in California. The protests turned violent–leading law enforcement to separate the migrants from the demonstrators.
Two former Mexican presidents publicly denied taking bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel. The statements came after the legal defense for Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera made contrary claims this week.
Members of the first migrant caravan voted on traveling to Tijuana to avoid other cartel-controlled areas such as Tamaulipas and Coahuila. The new route will be almost three times longer than aiming for the Texas border where most human smuggling activities occur.
A top Los Zetas Cartel boss caught hiding near Houston, Texas, was sentenced to two terms of life in prison for his leadership role in the international criminal organization.
McALLEN, Texas — A Texas judge who resigned this year after being accused of taking bribes won his bid for a higher court. The judge ran as a Democrat.
Human rights activists are sounding the alarm for approximately 100 Central Americans who went missing as part of the migrant caravan currently in the coastal Mexican state of Veracruz.
Mexican drug cartels continue to be the greatest criminal drug threat to the U.S., federal authorities stated in one of their latest reports. Federal agencies reported that drug cartels in Mexico continue to be the wholesale sources of drugs for street gangs that in turn push narcotics at the local level.
U.S. military forces placed barriers and concertina wire and carried out drills on the international bridge that divides Hidalgo, Texas, from Reynosa, Mexico. The efforts appear to be preparations for thousands of Central American caravan migrants who are expected to arrive at one of the various ports of entry.
As Mexican authorities continue to deal with two separate migrant caravans on both sides of their southern border, a third began its journey from El Salvador on Wednesday.
Mexican authorities deported two fugitive Honduran caravan migrants wanted for their respective alleged roles in a triple murder and drug trafficking.
A group of Central American migrants facing deportation set fire to a Mexican immigration facility in an apparent attempt to escape. The alleged arson comes at a time when Mexican authorities reported the use of firearms and Molotov cocktails within the migrant caravans as they make their way through Mexico to the United States.
Mexican authorities arrested two Hondurans who allegedly shot at federal police officers escorting the migrant caravan across the southern state of Chiapas. The attack follows shortly after government warnings about Molotov cocktail attacks around a second caravan near the border with Guatemala.
Mexico’s immigration authorities issued a warning about individuals in Guatemala who are building Molotov cocktails and other makeshift incendiary devices to be used against federal police officers guarding their southern border. The alert follows an incident where a group of migrants in what’s being dubbed the second caravan threw rocks at officials at the Guatemala-Mexico Border and tried to break through international barriers. Mexican law enforcement confirmed that some of the protesters in the clash carried firearms.
Hundreds of Central American migrants rushed through the border gate between Guatemala and Mexico as another large-scale caravan begins its march to the U.S. border. At this point, Mexican authorities appear to be holding the new caravan back.
Mexico’s government unveiled a plan to provide employment, health care, and education to thousands of Central American migrants who are part of the caravan that is traveling from Honduras towards the U.S border.
A Mexican journalist in Acapulco, Guerrero, died in a hail of gunfire after a team of shooters chased him down. He was the 17th killed this year.
Autoridades estateles arrestaron a uno de los principales comandantes del cártel de Los Zetas, que se cree es responsable en parte por la ola de violencia que sacudió la parte central de Tamaulipas.
State police officers arrested one of the top commanders for Los Zetas Cartel. He is believed responsible in part for the wave of violence rocking central Tamaulipas.
More than 4,000 migrants forced their way into Mexico after storming a border fence with Guatemala.
Mexico’s immigration authorities vowed to stop members of a migrant caravan consisting of roughly 1,300 individuals from Honduras trying to make their way north, eventually to the U.S. border. Those wanting to enter Mexico will have to follow immigration law or they will be turned back, officials say.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas – Un despiadado capo que fue recientemente liberado de prisión en México ahora está forjando una alianza con uno de los cárteles más violentos de México en un intento de tomar esta ciudad fronteriza. A pesar de ser buscado en los Estados Unidos donde enfrenta una acusación federal de múltiples cargos, las autoridades judiciales mexicanas liberaron al capo hace unos meses, lo que le dio la impunidad para forjar alianzas y tratar de llevar a cabo un intento de tomar el control de un importante cruce fronterizo.
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas – A ruthless crime boss who was recently released from a Mexican prison is now forging an alliance with one of the nation’s most violent cartels to take over this border city abutting Texas. Despite being wanted in the U.S. on a multi-count indictment, Mexican judicial authorities released the boss this year, effectively giving him a clean record.
More than 1300 Honduran men, women, and children began a trek that is expected to take them through Central America and Mexico. Some of the migrants plan to seek asylum in Mexico while others plan to head to the U.S. border. The march appears to be organized through social media.
Authorities arrested a man and a woman reportedly pushing a stroller filled with human body parts. The man allegedly confessed to murdering 10 women but is believed to have killed as many as 20 in central Mexico. Some victims were raped and one woman’s two-month-old baby was reportedly sold off.
A hitman for the feared Los Zetas Cartel in Coahuila who hid in Texas was recently deported to face trial in Mexico. The man is responsible for leading a wave of terror and executions in Piedras Negras in late 2017.
“La Muñeca,” A top cartel figure who became famous for her sultry photographs on social media, was extradited to Texas for sentencing on drug conspiracy and bribery charges.
Two gunmen on a motorcycle murdered a local journalist and injured his wife as they dined in southern Mexico–marking the 16th dead in 2018.
A group of gunmen shot and killed a Mexican journalist and local radio personality in the southern state of Guerrero. The murder comes less than a week after another journalist was killed in nearby Chiapas.
Two Mexican federal agents died in a shootout while trying to apprehend an FBI fugitive wanted for the murder of a soccer coach within the New York Red Bulls club.
Cartel gunmen operating in Cancun kidnapped, tortured, and murdered two Mexican Marines. Their bodies were wrapped in white sheets and left in a busy street. The executions come at a time when Cancun has officially tallied 420 murders in nine months.
Mexican authorities confirmed the discovery of 38 human body fragments in a Reynosa field near the Texas border. The find follows official and human rights group efforts to locate discarded cartel victims.
The Mexican military disarmed and replaced the entire police force in the beach resort town of Acapulco. The move comes as part of an investigation into the agency’s ties to drug cartels.
Newly released evidence revealed that cartel gunmen butchered several children including toddlers and buried their remains in a series of mass graves in the Mexican coastal state of Veracruz. The more than 166 victims believed to have been buried there have not been identified.
Two gunmen in Mexico shot and killed a journalist who exposed political corruption in the state of Chiapas. The journalist had previously been targeted for kidnapping and death. The murder raises the death toll to 14 Mexican journalists killed in the first nine months of 2018.
A police officer from Brownsville is back on the job after being cleared by a federal jury on charges that she tried smuggle her boyfriend past an immigration checkpoint.
State authorities abandoned a trailer with 157 bodies in the coastal state of Jalisco. The trailer was used as a stopgap after morgues overfilled due to regional cartel violence.
Three cartel hitmen dressed as mariachis sprayed gunfire in one of Mexico City’s most popular plazas. Casualty reports range from three to five victims killed — as many as seven others were injured.
El Cartel del Golfo de México se ha unido a la tendencia actual del videos del baile virales donde dos de sus sicarios con todo su equipo táctico y cargando rifles de asalto bailan al lado de una camioneta en movimiento.
