Gulf Cartel

Juan Castro, one of the leaders of the infamous Gulf Clan drug cartel, was filmed casually walking out of La Picota jail in Bogota while wearing a guard's uniform.

A car chase and shootout between gang members and law enforcement near Mexico's northern border left three members of the powerful Gulf Cartel dead along with one bystander, officials said on Saturday.

Last week, a prison riot in northern Mexico claimed the lives of 49 inmates. The violence that convulsed Topo Chico prison, in the city of Monterrey, involved clashes between members of rival factions of the notorious Zetas cartel, and was the worse such clash since a similar 2014 battle, that also took place in the state of Nuevo Leon, saw the dea...

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.

Gunfights broke out and vehicles were set ablaze on Friday in one of Mexico's biggest cities along the US border, after security forces arrested a leader of one of the main drug gangs in the area.

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.

Two dozen gunmen burst into a casino in northern Mexico on Thursday, doused it with gasoline and started a fire that trapped gamblers inside, killing 53 people and injuring a dozen more, authorities said.

Juan Castro, one of the leaders of the infamous Gulf Clan drug cartel, was filmed casually walking out of La Picota jail in Bogota while wearing a guard's uniform.

A car chase and shootout between gang members and law enforcement near Mexico's northern border left three members of the powerful Gulf Cartel dead along with one bystander, officials said on Saturday.

Last week, a prison riot in northern Mexico claimed the lives of 49 inmates. The violence that convulsed Topo Chico prison, in the city of Monterrey, involved clashes between members of rival factions of the notorious Zetas cartel, and was the worse such clash since a similar 2014 battle, that also took place in the state of Nuevo Leon, saw the dea...

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.

Gunfights broke out and vehicles were set ablaze on Friday in one of Mexico's biggest cities along the US border, after security forces arrested a leader of one of the main drug gangs in the area.

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.

Two dozen gunmen burst into a casino in northern Mexico on Thursday, doused it with gasoline and started a fire that trapped gamblers inside, killing 53 people and injuring a dozen more, authorities said.