Mexico Drug Cartels

Organized crime groups that previously focused on tapping into oil pipelines to steal oil, or on drug smuggling are branching out into human trafficking.

After nine Mormons—three women and six children—were murdered by the side of a Mexican road in November, a national outcry erupted. Now a police chief has been arrested over his ties to the crime.

As pressure increases on Mexico to solve the murders of three women and six children - and the kidnapping of eight others - the cartel involved has been named by the Mexican government, and one unidentified suspect has been arrested.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rejected Trump's call for conflict with the cartels after the violent attack near the U.S. border.

Smuggling gangs have reportedly used commercial power tools to cut through the new parts of Trump's controversial wall along the Mexican border.

Last Thursday, nine dead bodies were hanged from a bridge in Mexico, and it's believed the grisly scene was meant to be a scare tactic by a cartel.

Gutierrez told police he was being paid just $159 per week for his cartel work.

At least 82 candidates and officeholders have already been killed since September.

Their family still hopes to find them alive.

The war on the drug cartel in Mexico has been going on for over a decade.

Legal marijuana was supposed to hurt the Mexican drug cartels, but narcos in California aren't going anywhere.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador has jumped to an early lead, but not everyone is happy about his stance on the cartels.

A message threatened a high-ranking police official and was signed CJNG—the initials of a drug cartel.

Mexico's avocado producers are prime targets for cartel extortion.

The warning may have a serious impact on Mexico's economy.

The past week has been particularly bloody in the country.

Researchers have mapped the drug war's trail of death.

The capture of El Chapo in January 2016 created a power vacuum that is being violently disputed between different cartels.

In the first six months of 2017, Cancún has seen more killings than in the whole of 2016.

It's not just criminal organizations who are responsible, agents of the Mexican state play their part too.

Two state police officers, one security guard and an inmate were killed in the violence.

Armed, masked men in the mining region set up the vigilante group and formed a roadblock in response to extortion and kidnappings.

A record 11 journalists were killed in Mexico in 2016.

Mexico is one of the deadliest countries for journalism at a time when murder rates are at their highest since 2011.

The International Institute for Strategic Studies placed Mexico behind Syria in their Armed Conflict Survey 2017 report.

The government's fight against criminal cartels accounted for 23,000 deaths in 2016.

The Mexican drug kingpin spends up to 23 hours locked up and is not allowed to receive any visitors.

The drug trafficker helped Guzman escape federal prison twice but was reported to be locked in a battle for succession of the Sinaloa cartel.

Filming for the series has been shrouded in secrecy, and Guzmán has launched legal appeals in Mexico against the producers.

Mexican investigators announced the discovery of more than 250 skulls from unmarked graves in the eastern Gulf state of Veracruz.