Two high-level military operations carried out by Mexico’s Navy delivered a powerful blow to the most feared terrorist group in Mexico, Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG). The arrests of two of its top leaders come just weeks after Mexico’s military forces, working with U.S. intelligence agencies, killed the cartel’s supreme leader and founder, Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, in February.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The terrorist cartel leader known as El Mencho kept a series of detailed records that show that in the area where he was hiding out, he had several local police forces in his payroll, as well as state and federal investigators also working for him. The records provide additional evidence that further support numerous prior reports from Breitbart Texas about how El Mencho and his terrorist group Cartel Jalisco New Generation had been able to buy influence at all levels of Mexico’s government.
The terrorist Organization Cartel Jalisco New Generation has established a hierarchical structure that allows the criminal organization to control its vast territories throughout Mexico. Similar to how a large-scale company operates, the structure allowed the cartel’s underbosses to run day-to-day operations without the constant need for supervision from the cartel’s supreme leader, the late Ruben Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes.
Cartel gunmen have begun carrying out terrorist attacks in various states in Mexico in response to the death of the country’s most powerful terrorist cartel leader, Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes. Mexico’s government confirmed the death of the cartel boss,
The recent arrest of a cartel figure in Jalisco has been linked to several extortion cases and arsons in the border city of Tijuana, Mexican authorities revealed.
A criminal investigation into the majority owner of the Miss Universe pageant has uncovered allegations that his organization helped smuggle weapons from Guatemala into Mexico, using shipments of clothing and electronics to move guns that ultimately supplied Mexico City’s black market and cartel groups, including Cartel Jalisco New Generation and the Tepito Union.
The mayor of the Mexican border city of Tijuana, Baja California, is threatening to take legal action against any news outlet that publishes information about an ongoing money-laundering investigation into him. The politician is allegedly linked to two businessmen who have been singled out for their alleged ties to both Cartel Jalisco New Generation and the Sinaloa Cartel.
The U.S. National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC) revealed that a faction of Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) based in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, was murdering pregnant women to harvest their organs and sell their children to U.S. couples.
Senator Alejandro “Alito” Moreno, head of Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), publicly accused MORENA Senate Coordinator Adán Augusto López of enabling cartel operations while serving as interior secretary and governor of Tabasco. He announced Tuesday that his party had formally asked U.S. federal agencies to investigate López’s alleged role in fuel smuggling, money laundering, and organized crime.
A newly captured cartel boss with deep political connections assumed leadership of a regional cell of Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) while having been the head of the state police force in the Mexican State of Tabasco. He allegedly used police forces to carry out enforcement actions against rivals. CJNG is one of the six Mexican cartels listed as foreign terrorist groups by the U.S. government.
A group of gunmen fired indiscriminately into a bar in central Mexico in a terror-style attack as part of an apparent fight between criminal organizations.
A new report from the NGO Environment Investigation Agency (EIA) claims that Mexico’s Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) is trafficking mercury to South America for its use in gold refining. The report comes just weeks after suspected CJNG gunmen stole more than 33 tons of gold concentrate from a mining company along a highway in Jalisco.
Mexican Army soldiers arrested a group of Colombian mercenaries believed to be behind a landmine attack that killed eight soldiers in western Mexico.
Two of the most violent cartels in Mexico appear to be joining forces to create a “mega-cartel.” The cartel merger could tip the balance of power in the ongoing Sinaloa Cartel civil war. The two Narco-terrorist factions that make up
Authorities in Mexico announced the arrest of several Colombian soldiers who were part of a paramilitary group working for Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG). The U.S. government designated the CJNG as a terrorist organization earlier this year.
A highly decorated Mexican federal police officer and his wife died during a targeted attack by gunmen in Mexico. The murder came just weeks after it became known that his testimony in a U.S trial had helped seal the fate of the son of the leader of Cartel Jalisco New Generation. The drug lord’s son received a life term in prison.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced financial sanctions on three Mexican nationals and two Mexico-based entities allegedly involved in a drug trafficking and fuel theft network linked to the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG). The sanctions have been coordinated through the Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in conjunction with multiple federal law enforcement agencies. The intent is to disrupt the CJNG cartel’s ability to continue reaping profits from fentanyl trafficking and large-scale fuel smuggling activities.
A series of clashes involving the Foreign Terrorist Organization, Cartel Jalisco New Generation, brought three states to a standstill as gunmen carjacked dozens of buses and vehicles to set them on fire. The attacks created blockades along the main highways in the Mexican states of Michoacán, Jalisco, and Guanajuato. The violence spread to 29 municipalities.
Four members of a Mexican music group lost their work and tourist visas to the U.S. after they opened a show in Mexico praising and showing images of the leader of Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG). This cartel has been labeled as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. Government. The musicians are also under investigation in Mexico for the charge of “crime apology or advocacy.”
The Mexican drug cartel behind a recently discovered killing field and training compounds in Mexico is trying to clean up its image with PR stunts aimed at currying favor among low-income communities.
Una investigación sobre un supuesto campo de entrenamiento y exterminio del Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación en México ha llevado a las autoridades a descubrir cómo uno de los cárteles más violentos del mundo utilizó TikTok para reclutar a sus sicarios.
An investigation into an alleged cartel training ground and killing field in western Mexico has led authorities to uncover how one of the world’s most violent cartels used TikTok to recruit its gunmen.
One of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels, now considered by the U.S. to be a terrorist organization, released a video claiming that the recent news stories about a cartel killing field and training camp attributed to them are fabrications. The drug cartel contended that any evidence in that killing field was planted to place the blame on them.
In a series of coordinated attacks in Western Mexico, gunmen from Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) killed three Mexican soldiers, killed two National Guardsmen, and injured two other soldiers.
New information relating a killing field to Cartel Jalisco New Generation, where authorities found hundreds of shoes and personal items, raises serious questions as to why it was allowed to operate for so long. At the same time, the number of victims reported missing rose to more than 700 in that region.
Hundreds of shoes, clothing, and other personal effects littered the ground on a ranch that had been turned into a killing field and crematorium by Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG). The discovery comes soon after the U.S. government designated CJNG as a foreign terrorist organization and called for its eradication.
The son of the supreme leader of Mexico’s Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) will spend the rest of his life in a U.S. prison. The sentence comes as the U.S. government is placing extreme pressure on Mexico’s government to force them to act against drug cartels.
Authorities in Mexico confirmed that 11 of the 15 hitmen arrested for their role in a series of cartel gunbattles in the state of Guerrero are from Guatemala and El Salvador. The other four are Mexican citizens.
A new series of cartel clashes taking place in the rural parts of western Mexico forced hundreds of individuals to flee their homes as government officials appear to turn a blind eye to the horrors. Amid the violence, human rights activists are asking Mexico’s government to step in to not only restore the peace but to implement long-term solutions to the violence and the forced displacement of indigenous people in the region.
Violence exploded in the western state of Michoacan following a shift in alliances that saw bitter rivals join forces to take on another criminal organization that passes itself off as a self-defense group to get help from police and military forces.
Activists are sounding the alarm about a large group of gunmen who kidnapped more than 200 migrants as they made their way north toward the Sonora-Arizona border. Some of the migrant’s relatives wired thousands of dollars to the alleged kidnappers, but the migrants remain missing.
Suspected cartel gunmen threw three explosives at a state police building in the Mexican beach hotpot of Acapulco. The terror-style attack comes soon after gunmen left 9 dismembered bodies in that same city.
Gunmen from the Sinaloa Cartel torched several vehicles and blocked highways in the Mexican state of Zacatecas in response to a series of arrests by authorities.
A Mexican federal judge has ordered the release of the brother of the supreme leader of Mexico’s most violent and dangerous drug criminal organization — Cartel Jalisco New Generation. The judge made the release citing irregularities in the paperwork and the arrest procedure.
Mexican authorities report a shift in the production and distribution of fentanyl as the Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel is moving its operations closer to Texas.
Authorities in Mexico confirmed the arrest of 20 cartel gunmen, the killing of three others, and the wounding of two more following a series of shootouts in the coastal state of Tabasco. The clashes come after the region experienced a dramatic rise in cartel shootouts and targeted killings.
