Matamoros is home to warring factions of the Gulf drug cartel, as leadership changes have led to bloody infighting. Amid the violence, thousands of Mexicans have disappeared.

The former leader of FAIR, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, Dan Stein, retired this year after more than 40 at ...

In just five months, the US illegal-immigrant population has dropped an estimated 1 million — putting Team Trump on course to ...

Jaime Gonzalez-Duran was “one of Los Zetas’ most violent leaders” and he smuggled millions of dollars worth of drugs into the United States, federal officials say.

Conflict Index identified Mexico as the most dangerous and violent country in the world without an ongoing conventional war ...

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.

Sean Campbell and Topher McDougal talk about their investigation into the flow of guns from the U.S. to Mexico on The Conversation Weekly podcast.

As the Atlantic Council, an international affairs thinktank, observed in 2024: “in areas [of Mexico] controlled by drug cartels, violence against women intensifies”.

Deteriorating into a combative relationship with Mexico would almost certainly worsen problems over trade and cartels and ...

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on June 5 rejected Mexico’s attempt to hold U.S. gunmakers liable for violence and atrocities Mexican drug cartels have inflicted using their weapons. The court ...

A Mexican mayor and her husband have been killed in the western state of Michoacan. It occurred less than 48 hours after a mayor in the southern state of Oaxaca was killed.