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24 October 2019. Getty Images. Mexico's brutal drug war claims thousands of lives every year, as powerful trafficking groups battle it out for territory and influence. These cartels control...
- Can Mexico Save Its Journalists
Since 2000, at least 106 journalists have been killed across...
- Mexican Drug Trade Reporter Javier Valdez Killed
Mexican journalist Javier Valdez, known for his...
- Mum Who Probed Daughter's Death is Killed
The administration of former President Felipe Calderón...
- Can Mexico Save Its Journalists
Introduction. Mexican authorities have been waging a deadly battle against drug cartels for more than a decade, but with limited success. Thousands of Mexicans—including politicians, students,...
But the war has also pitted the major drug traffickers against each other in excessively violent struggles to maintain, or expand, their positions. Here are seven of the country's most notorious ...
Mexican Mafia, prison gang and street gang network in the United States, centred in southern California but active in 13 states. The Mexican Mafia, which is one of the largest and deadliest prison gangs, is known for its secrecy and code of silence, for uncompromising violence, for its antipathy.
The Mexican Mafia was formed in 1957 by thirteen Hispanic street gang members from different Los Angeles neighborhoods who were incarcerated at the Deuel Vocational Institution, a California Youth Authority facility, which is now an adult state prison in Tracy, California.
Ovidio Guzmán-López, 32, alleged to be a leader of his father's former cartel, was captured in Culiacán and flown to Mexico City on Thursday. But during and after the arrest, 10 soldiers and...
Landmines planted by rival gangs in the surrounding area killed one person and injured others in recent weeks. Army vehicles and landmine detection teams are patrolling the town.
