Mexican authorities in Sinaloa state said 20 people were killed, including some who were decapitated, in the latest episode of cartel-driven violence.

The U.S. ambassador to Mexico on Saturday rejected President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's claims that the U.S. was "co-responsible" for violence in the western state of Sinaloa, where more than ...

Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum, in just over three weeks in office, has inherited a whirlwind of violence that many say was set up by her predecessor's policy of not confronting drug cartels ...

Mexico's drug cartels are often described as powerful rivals to the state, with their influence measured in weapons, money and murdered officials. But this framing misses a fundamental truth ...

A religious celebration in Irapuato, Mexico, turned deadly when gunmen opened fire, resulting in 12 fatalities and at least 20 injuries. The attack occurred during festivities for the Nativity of St.

Twenty bodies were discovered -- including four decapitated corpses hanging from a bridge near a plastic bag of human heads -- after a bloody day of cartel violence in Mexico over the weekend.

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Mexico Hundreds of animals flee cartel chaos, violence after wildlife refuge faced with threats Tigers, elephants and lions once owned by drug lords moved amid constant gunfire in Culiacán ...

As Mexico’s southern state of Tabasco deals with the fallout of a wave of violence, an unofficial policy is funneling vulnerable migrants there, providing organized crime groups with more criminal ...

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Violence against women is central to how criminal sovereignty in Mexico is exercised and reproduced.

The U.S. ambassador to Mexico on Saturday rejected President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's claims that the U.S. was "co-responsible" for violence in the western state of Sinaloa, where more than ...