As Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and her government continue to claim that the U.S. Government does not have any evidence of wrongdoing against Sinaloa Governor Ruben Rocha Moya and nine of his closest allies, who are accused of working for the Sinaloa Cartel. Three of those officials have now crossed the border into the U.S. and allegedly turned themselves in.
A top Mexican government official who made headlines last month when he, along with the sitting governor of Sinaloa, was named in a criminal indictment accusing them of working for the Sinaloa Cartel, surrendered this week to U.S. authorities. The official is the former head of the state police in Sinaloa and a retired Mexican Army general.
A report published by a Mexican NGO has raised serious questions about a 2025 seizure of illegal fuel that government officials claimed was historic because the ship carried ten million liters. The report revealed that the ship was carrying twice as much fuel as what was actually seized, raising serious questions about the widespread corruption within Mexico’s government.
A group of gunmen released a video where they pull up to a house belonging to Sinaloa Governor Ruben Rocha Moya and spray gunfire into the abandoned home before leaving. The attack comes soon after Rocha Moya became the topic of much controversy after the U.S. Department of Justice accused him of being a cartel lackey.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum turned to a nationalist rhetoric, telling the Trump administration to stay out of her country.
Hundreds of people are planning a major celebration in the Mexican city of Culiacan, Sinaloa, over the resignation of the state’s cartel-connected governor, who is now a fugitive wanted by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is openly challenging the U.S. Justice Department and is apparently using her political power to prevent the arrest and extradition of a sitting state governor, a senator, and a mayor, all from her political party, MORENA. Those three men and seven other top law enforcement officials from the state of Sinaloa are wanted in a U.S. federal court on drug trafficking charges.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is being forced to choose between protecting the cartel- connected political party that got her into power or actually fighting drug cartels, as the Trump administration has been pressuring her to do. For now, Sheinbaum appears to be moving to protect her party. It remains to be seen how the U.S. government will react.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced the unsealing of a criminal indictment against a sitting Mexican governor and his closest allies. The case is historic in nature since it is the first time that a sitting Mexican governor has been named in a cartel-connected criminal case.
Mexico’s Navy raided a trucking depot that was being used by the Gulf Cartel to store thousands of gallons of stolen fuel that would be sold on the underground market as part of a complex moneymaking scheme.
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum is calling for an investigation into why two U.S. agents were allegedly operating in her country alongside Mexican state authorities. The Mexican president has largely remained quiet about how a drug trafficking organization was able to set up and operate one of the largest meth labs in history with almost complete impunity until those two agents worked with Mexican state authorities to shut them down.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 U.S. Department of the Treasury had previously identified and sanctioned the exclusive resort cabins in Jalisco where the terrorist leader Ruben Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes had been hiding. The revelation highlights the impunity with which the drug boss operated in Mexico, where he felt safe staying in an area that had been identified by authorities since 2020.
Mexico’s President, Claudia Sheinbaum, announced that her government was looking into taking legal action against U.S. businessman Elon Musk over a series of comments he made on social media. The American social media executive reportedly claimed that Sheinbaum answered to her cartel bosses.
A newly leaked audio revealed how Mexico’s top naval officials talked about covering up fuel theft and smuggling operations that reached the highest levels of the military institution and were also connected at the highest levels of Mexico’s ruling party, MORENA. The fuel-smuggling operation involved the nephews of the country’s Navy secretary at the time.
A federal judge in Mexico has formally charged the mayor of the city of Tequila with kidnapping and torture-related charges. The new charges come just days after his initial arrest on extortion and ties to Cartel Jalisco New Generation.
Last month, a group of cartel gunmen stormed a mining camp, kidnapped ten employees of a Canadian mining company, and are believed to have murdered them. So far, authorities have been able to identify five of the bodies found in a clandestine mass grave.
Authorities in Mexico arrested the mayor of Tequila, Jalisco, a city famous for the liquor bearing its name, in connection with an investigation into widespread corruption, extortion, and ties to the terrorist organization Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG).
Authorities in Mexico arrested two active Mexican military soldiers who were moonlighting as members of a security company and trying to smuggle a cocaine load on behalf of a cartel from Michoacan.
Migrants from countries other than Mexico have been purchasing false birth or marriage certificates that are then sent to the United States in order to avoid being deported to their country of origin.
The government of Mexico sent 37 cartel operatives to the United States this week in yet another attempt to appease the Trump administration over American claims that authorities south of the border are not doing enough to stop cartels. Despite their “peace offerings,” Mexican military and government officials continue protecting the country’s top cartel boss, Ruben Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera — the leader of the terrorist organization Cartel Jalisco New Generation.
A journalist in northern Mexico is currently fearing for her life after a feared drug lord announced that he was going to kill her because of her reporting. Despite the threat being public through a narco-banner, Mexico’s federal government, led by President Claudia Sheinbaum, refused to give the journalist protection, even though they have a program to safeguard news workers at risk.
A spokeswoman for Mexico’s ruling party, MORENA, sparked considerable controversy after publicly claiming that fighting organized crime is not doable because cartels are one of the country’s largest employers. In response to the outrage sparked by the comment, the MORENA party issued a statement distancing itself from it and claiming that political opponents were taking it out of context to attack them.
A Mexican legislator is trying to downplay her detention by U.S. authorities and the seizure of approximately $45,000 USD that she allegedly tried to cross into California. The politician claimed it was an oversight and that she was working to resolve the matter with U.S. authorities.
A mayor in the central Mexican state of Morelos sparked controversy after he bragged about purchasing 24,000 beers for the town’s week-long religious festival.
Mexico’s government has not been keeping track of the various cartel killing fields, crematoriums, and clandestine graves used throughout the country by criminal organizations. The move points to a systemic effort by government officials to hide the true scope of the violence that reigns over the country, mainly due to the out-of-control public corruption.
Mexico’s President, Claudia Sheinbaum, announced that her government would be helping the victims of a fatal train wreck that killed 13 people and injured 98 others. To support them, her government would provide each victim with 30,000 pesos (approximately $1,600) to cover expenses. Once the investigations are complete, the government will issue a second stipend.
Mexico’s government is working to contain the political fallout stemming from a large-scale train wreck that killed 13 passengers and injured almost 100 others in the southern part of the country. The wrecked train was one of the pet projects pushed by the country’s ruling party and was operated by Mexico’s Navy to improve tourism and quality of life in the southern part of the country. However, the train project has been plagued with allegations of corruption, contract rigging, and the use of substandard materials.
Mexican authorities have filed terrorism and organized crime charges against a local journalist over his work as a crime reporter. The arrest and prosecution sparked widespread condemnation from international press freedom organizations over the use of law enforcement against journalists who are uncomfortable with the political elite.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury is moving against one of Mexico’s most violent cartels, responsible for numerous mass killings, in its effort to control the country’s fuel theft market. Unlike other drug cartels that earn most of their money
A former Mexican politician with Mexico’s ruling party MORENA spent almost an hour hiding in a bathroom in an attempt to avoid being dragged by agents to a hearing tied to an anti-corruption and embezzlement investigation during her term as mayor of Muzquiz, Coahuila.
