Mexico’s politics are riddled with drug money and mobsters, too. Mr Trump could unleash violence against the real threat on his doorstep at any moment. That would destabilise Mexico’s politics and its vital trading relationship with the United States,

Four suspects were arrested and nine people kidnapped by the gang were freed following the clash in Sinaloa, officials said.

The U.S. Consulate is warning Americans against travel in certain parts of Mexico including Baja California amid a surge in drug cartel violence. At least 11 people have been killed, stores have been set on fire, and cars and buses have been hijacked.

Counting homicides alone misses an important part of the picture, namely the thousands of people who disappear in Mexico every year, many of whom are killed and buried in unmarked graves. A broader view of deadly crime that includes manslaughter,

MEXICO CITY, Mexico -- Mexican police found nine bodies hanging from an overpass Thursday alongside a drug cartel banner threatening rivals, and seven more corpses hacked up and dumped by the road nearby. Just down the road were three more bodies, for a ...

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican authorities said Thursday that 21 bodies, some burned, have been found in the northern Mexico border state of Tamaulipas in what appears to have been a clash between drug gangs. The bodies were found near the remains of seven burned ...

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MEXICO CITY -- Armed men abducted 10 to 12 presumed members of a crime gang who appeared to be celebrating at an upscale restaurant in the popular Mexican beach resort city of Puerto Vallarta, authorities said Monday. Jalisco state prosecutor Eduardo ...

Though Ms Sheinbaum has kept the rhetoric of her predecessor and mentor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, about tackling poverty as the root cause of crime and violence, her policy has taken a different tack,