Mexican Drug Trade

Fugitive drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero says he isn't getting back into the drug trade or trying to muscle in on the Sinaloa cartel's operations.

US authorities said on Wednesday that they discovered a cross-border tunnel that ran a half-mile from a Tijuana house equipped with a large elevator to a lot in San Diego that was advertised as a wooden pallet business, resulting in seizures of more than a ton of cocaine and seven tons of marijuana.

A man suspected of laundering money for jailed drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was detained in southwestern Mexico, and faces extradition to the United States, Mexican authorities said on Sunday.

A Mexican woman is believed to have become the world's first female to head a drug cartel, Prensa Latina news agency reported.Enedina Arellano Felix is considered by US anti-drug authorities to be the head of the Tijuana cartel, according to Mexican magazine Proceso.The cartel is one of the most powerful and violent in the country, with connections...

Fugitive drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero says he isn't getting back into the drug trade or trying to muscle in on the Sinaloa cartel's operations.

US authorities said on Wednesday that they discovered a cross-border tunnel that ran a half-mile from a Tijuana house equipped with a large elevator to a lot in San Diego that was advertised as a wooden pallet business, resulting in seizures of more than a ton of cocaine and seven tons of marijuana.

A man suspected of laundering money for jailed drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was detained in southwestern Mexico, and faces extradition to the United States, Mexican authorities said on Sunday.

A Mexican woman is believed to have become the world's first female to head a drug cartel, Prensa Latina news agency reported.Enedina Arellano Felix is considered by US anti-drug authorities to be the head of the Tijuana cartel, according to Mexican magazine Proceso.The cartel is one of the most powerful and violent in the country, with connections...