A leader of the Cartel del Noreste, who smuggled drugs into the South Texas border town of Laredo, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump are open to using military force like airstrikes and special forces against drug cartels in Mexico. Trump has long took issue with the criminal ...

Yet Mexico is being rocked by deadly cartel wars, and there is a growing recognition that America could aid in the battle against the crime lords. President Sheinbaum, the Mexican leader, had ...

Neither perspective is accurate. The true villains are the drug cartels. When a person is fleeing from their home because of violence or threat of violence, there are currently very few options ...

All these stories come on the heels of Trump’s decision to label Mexico’s drug cartels as “foreign terrorist organizations” (FTOs). That’s a very specific designation that opens the ...

Suspected Mexican cartel members were caught on video opening fire on US Border Patrol agents near the southern border Monday – just as a group of migrants reportedly tried to enter the US ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s executive order moving toward designating drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations would ...

But the morning in LA belonged to Emilia Pérez, the divisive Spanish-language tale of a Mexican cartel boss who transitions into a woman — told in song. The film has been accused of cultural ...

Isolating companies from cartel activities could be almost impossible given that the criminal groups operate in sectors like agriculture and tourism, leaving some American businesses vulnerable to ...

MEXICO CITY - On the night of Jan 20, President Donald Trump called for the State Department to label Mexican cartels as “foreign terrorist organisations”, a move that increases the reach of ...

Authorities in Canada seized $83 million worth of cocaine linked to a notorious Mexican cartel, marking the largest haul of the drug in Toronto's history, officials announced Tuesday. The over 835 ...

What would it mean to classify Mexican drug cartels as "foreign terrorist organizations"? NPR speaks with Mike Vigil, former chief of international operations for the DEA. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR ...