A former city official from the border city of Matamoros remains in federal custody after U.S. law enforcement agents arrested him in connection with the attempted smuggling of cocaine in Texas. Since information about the arrest went public, the City of Matamoros has tried to distance itself from the case, claiming that he had stopped working there months before his arrest.
At least two Canadian tourists died in a mass shooting attack at Mexico’s Sun Pyramid near Mexico City, which left four others with gunshot injuries. Two tourists sustained numerous injuries when they fell off the pyramid while running away from the gunfire, say officials.
Two U.S. officials, a top Mexican state law enforcement official, and his bodyguard died over the weekend in a highway crash in Mexico.
A politician in southern Mexico who is listed by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as a fugitive has now been reported missing and is believed to be the victim of a cartel kidnapping.
A recent cocaine seizure in southern Mexico points to a new trend as traffickers have increased land smuggling operations in response to the aggressive interdiction actions taken by the U.S. government, which have sunk numerous vessels in international waters.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has identified two cartel-connected groups in the border state of Tamaulipas, as well as three of their main operators. As part of the move, the U.S. government is freezing any related accounts and prohibiting U.S. citizens from doing business with the sanctioned individuals.
The U.S. Government publicly identified the main operator behind a cartel propaganda network that benefited one of Mexico’s most violent terrorist organizations. The man claimed to be a human rights activist. Numerous international news outlets routinely quote that individual, further pushing his pro-cartel propaganda.
Once more, a group of gunmen pulled up to a bar in Cancun and fired several shots, killing one employee inside. The attack is the latest of its kind in a growing trend in the popular tourist destination, where criminal organizations carry out shooting attacks as part of an extortion operation, and a way to control the street-level sale of narcotics at those establishments.
Mexican military forces found a narco-tunnel that was being built connecting Nogales, Sonora, with its sister city in Arizona. The tunnel is connected to the Los Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel.
A 27-year-old woman who was in Texas illegally will spend more than five years in prison for her role as the bookkeeper for a human smuggling group from a faction of Los Zetas responsible for moving more than 1,900 migrants through the border city of Laredo.
Farmers and truckers across Mexico blocked highways peacefully to draw attention to the violence and the lack of government support. Rather than address the massive protests that brought the country to a standstill, President Claudia Sheinbaum claimed it was a political move by her opponents.
A California man who was the co-founder of Cartel Jalisco New Generation pleaded guilty to federal drug conspiracy charges in a U.S. federal court and awaits sentencing. Cartel Jalisco is currently considered one of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartels, known not only for its use of thousands of gunmen but also for the widespread use of explosives in its attacks throughout Mexico.
A group of activists who search for missing persons has reported finding a new cartel killing field in the Mexican border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas. So far, the group has found the remains of 14 victims while they continue looking for more. The region remains under the control of the terrorist organization known as the Gulf Cartel.
A United Nations committee published a damning decision singling out the Mexican Cartel-related “Enforced Disappearances” problem. The committee called on the UN Secretary General to request action on the matter from the General Assembly.
The second-highest-ranking leader of the Gulf Cartel pleaded guilty this week to a federal drug conspiracy charge as part of a plea agreement with federal prosecutors. The feared cartel boss is one of the top cartel figures that Mexico’s government sent to the U.S. in early 2025 after the Trump Administration began pressuring Mexico to take a hard line against drug cartels.
A member of the Sinaloa Cartel died over the weekend in an explosion shortly after flying into Mexico State. The incident has sparked renewed controversies about Mexico’s refusal to label cartels as terrorist organizations despite their terror-style tactics.
A group of gunmen in Mexico fired into a bar in the popular beach resort city of Cancun, injuring five people. The shooting comes just days after a similar shooting in Playa Del Carmen, another popular tourist destination.
Mexico’s government continues to use faulty stats to push a false narrative that the cartel-controlled country is safe. In the most recent attempt to trick the public, Mexico’s government is claiming that one-third of the country’s more than 130,000 persons reported as missing are believed to be alive.
A high school football coach in Edinburg, Texas, is facing an ongoing civil trial over allegations that he forced students to work out naked. The Edinburg Consolidated School District is also a party in the lawsuit, alleging that it covered up the case and handled the issue internally rather than turning it over to law enforcement.
An Arizona gun dealer is facing terrorism charges in connection with a conspiracy to provide weapons to both Cartel Jalisco New Generation and the Sinaloa Cartel. Both Mexican cartels are designated as foreign terrorist organizations by the U.S. Department of State.
News outlets in Mexico are claiming that a group of soldiers from the U.S. Army crossed into Mexico while they were reinforcing the border fence. The issue sparked some tensions when Mexican military forces asked them to leave, but the troops stayed in their spot until they finished their task.
A group of cartel gunmen kidnapped eight workers on their way to work in the Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon. The incident comes at a time when the terrorist Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas continues to spread terror through northern Mexico.
While Mexican government officials continue to point to the United States as the main source of weapons for drug cartels, a federal indictment filed in a U.S. court in Virginia revealed that a Bulgarian arms trafficker was providing terrorist cartels with catalogues of weapons that included rocket launchers, surface-to-air weapons systems, and tanks.
A group of gunmen riding on motorbikes fired into a packed bar in the tourist hotspot of Playa Del Carmen. That area is roughly an hour away from the beach resort area of Cancun. The attack comes at a time when Mexico’s Caribbean region sees a high influx of tourists during the Spring Break and Easter holiday seasons.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced a ten-count indictment against five illegal aliens from Mexico for their role in running a large-scale meth production and distribution operation in California. The two leaders of the operation had been released under Biden-era catch-and-release policies after entering the country illegally.
Mexican military forces clashed with several gunmen from the Sinaloa Cartel, killing 11 of them. The shootout came as a result of a series of raids in a luxurious suburb of Culiacan, where forces arrested the daughter of jailed cartel kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada. Hours later, Mexican authorities released the woman despite U.S. authorities having identified her in the past as a money laundering operator for the cartel.
Authorities in the Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon arrested a man wanted in South Texas in connection with a 2024 murder.
Mexican authorities working with U.S. federal agents arrested a man wanted for a double murder in Washington State. The fugitive had been on the run for almost two years and was hiding in Mexico. His arrest came a little over an hour after the FBI added him to their Most Wanted List and listed a $1 million reward for his capture.
An ongoing controversy in South Texas involving numerous death threats in schools, inaction by the administration, and attempts to cover it up has been growing as more parents come forward claiming that their children are also victims.
Two Mexican federal judges are facing suspension and were forcibly removed from their offices. The judges are the target of an internal judicial investigation for a series of rulings that protected a fugitive former Mexican governor from extradition, who is currently wanted on money laundering charges in Texas.
School officials in South Texas kicked out a news crew from Telemundo who had gone to the Edinburg CISD administration building to inquire about death threats to students.
A school in South Texas is accused by a local attorney of trying to cover up a series of death threats made against a student. The attorney says officials went as far as calling law enforcement on the parent of the victim, who had gone to complain, and had the suspect students erase a video that they had allegedly recorded with the death threats. If proven true, the actions by school officials could be in violation of Texas law.
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum fired back at U.S. President Donald J. Trump over some mocking comments made about her refusal to use military forces from both Mexico and the U.S. to eliminate cartels.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is using her country’s non-intervention policy as a cover for the fact that Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia were not invited to President Donald Trump’s Shield of the Americas summit.
Unknown individuals within Mexico’s Navy provided restricted weapons, tactical gear, and body armor to members of the terrorist organization Cartel Jalisco New Generation. The revelation comes from a former cartel hitman who revealed to authorities in April 2025 that he personally went to pick up stashed weapons for the criminal organization.
Ecuadoran military and police forces seized a cartel sub and clashed with gunmen in a swamp region of Ecuador. The raid came soon after the nation announced the start of joint operations with U.S. military forces aimed at stopping drug cartels in Latin American countries.
A large deployment of Mexican military and National Guard forces took to the streets of Jalisco to guard the wake and funeral of one of the country’s most dangerous drug lords, Ruben Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, the leader of the terrorist organization Cartel Jalisco New Generation.
Due to the widespread corruption and cartel infiltration in the border state of Tamaulipas, Mexican military forces kept local and state authorities out of the loop in a recent operation targeting a commander with the Gulf Cartel. The raid took
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has announced a series of sanctions against a resort in Mexico tied to timeshare scams run by the terrorist organization Cartel Jalisco New Generation. In response to the move by U.S. financial authorities, Mexico’s government has also frozen assets and imposed sanctions on the same resort and its operators.
