Drug Cartel Violence

A turf war broke out on September 9 between two factions of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of Mexico's most violent and powerful drug trafficking organizations.

Attack violent crime at its roots or go to war with powerful drug cartels? Mexican presidential candidates are offering contrasting strategies to deal with rampant insecurity.

The total area of opium poppy cultivation in violence-hit Manipur has declined 60 per cent since 2021, latest data from the autonomous government institution Manipur Remote Sensing Applications Centre shows.

A shootout between suspected drug cartel hitmen has killed 19 people in the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua, the state government said on Saturday, in one of the country's worst outbreaks of gang violence this year.

At least 15 people died Wednesday in a huge shootout between police and two rival drug gangs in northern Mexico, authorities said.

Mexican authorities discovered six bodies in a community in the eastern state of Veracruz on Wednesday, a day after five other corpses were dumped elsewhere in the region.

A weekend of violence killed at least 16 people in Mexico's troubled southern state of Guerrero as shootings erupted at a cockfight and a football field, police said on Monday.

Government security forces killed 42 suspected drug cartel henchmen and suffered one fatality in a firefight in western Mexico on Friday, an official said, one of the bloodiest shootouts in a decade of gang violence wracking the country.

At least 42 "suspected criminals" were killed Friday in a gunfight with federal police in a western Mexico region hit by cartel violence, one of the bloodiest clashes in the country's drug war.

Gunfights erupted in broad daylight Friday in a Mexican city across the US border plagued by drug cartel violence and several vehicles, including a school bus, were set on fire.

Mexican authorities have arrested the suspected leaders of the Independent Cartel of Acapulco, one of the drug gangs responsible for the Pacific resort's deadly violence, officials said Tuesday.

Journalists in a northwestern Mexican state plagued by drug violence denounced on Friday a new law that will impose strict limits on how they can cover crime.

The bodies of 31 people, some mutilated, have been exhumed from a mass grave in Veracruz, a stronghold of the Zetas, one of Mexico's most bloodthirsty cartels, a military official said.

Security forces in northeastern Mexico captured a leading figure in the Gulf drug cartel blamed for much of the violence in the region, officials said Sunday.

Mexico's government decided Tuesday to increase military control over security in the northeastern border state of Tamaulipas and purge corrupt police to counter a surge in drug cartel violence.

A turf war broke out on September 9 between two factions of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of Mexico's most violent and powerful drug trafficking organizations.

Attack violent crime at its roots or go to war with powerful drug cartels? Mexican presidential candidates are offering contrasting strategies to deal with rampant insecurity.

The total area of opium poppy cultivation in violence-hit Manipur has declined 60 per cent since 2021, latest data from the autonomous government institution Manipur Remote Sensing Applications Centre shows.

A shootout between suspected drug cartel hitmen has killed 19 people in the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua, the state government said on Saturday, in one of the country's worst outbreaks of gang violence this year.

At least 15 people died Wednesday in a huge shootout between police and two rival drug gangs in northern Mexico, authorities said.

Mexican authorities discovered six bodies in a community in the eastern state of Veracruz on Wednesday, a day after five other corpses were dumped elsewhere in the region.

A weekend of violence killed at least 16 people in Mexico's troubled southern state of Guerrero as shootings erupted at a cockfight and a football field, police said on Monday.

Government security forces killed 42 suspected drug cartel henchmen and suffered one fatality in a firefight in western Mexico on Friday, an official said, one of the bloodiest shootouts in a decade of gang violence wracking the country.

At least 42 "suspected criminals" were killed Friday in a gunfight with federal police in a western Mexico region hit by cartel violence, one of the bloodiest clashes in the country's drug war.

Gunfights erupted in broad daylight Friday in a Mexican city across the US border plagued by drug cartel violence and several vehicles, including a school bus, were set on fire.

Mexican authorities have arrested the suspected leaders of the Independent Cartel of Acapulco, one of the drug gangs responsible for the Pacific resort's deadly violence, officials said Tuesday.

Journalists in a northwestern Mexican state plagued by drug violence denounced on Friday a new law that will impose strict limits on how they can cover crime.

The bodies of 31 people, some mutilated, have been exhumed from a mass grave in Veracruz, a stronghold of the Zetas, one of Mexico's most bloodthirsty cartels, a military official said.

Security forces in northeastern Mexico captured a leading figure in the Gulf drug cartel blamed for much of the violence in the region, officials said Sunday.

Mexico's government decided Tuesday to increase military control over security in the northeastern border state of Tamaulipas and purge corrupt police to counter a surge in drug cartel violence.