Sol remembers her first kill for a Mexican cartel: a kidnapping she committed with a handful of other young recruits that twisted into torture and bled into murder. She was 12 years old. Sol had ...

Rising cartel violence in Mexico has led to the recruitment of former Colombian soldiers by Mexican drug cartels. This comes ...

The renewed investigation of a ranch in western Mexico, where authorities say ... allegedly in charge of the cartel's recruitment. The Jalisco cartel employs three recruiting methods: there ...

Mexico's security chief says that the country's most powerful drug cartels are recruiting former Colombian soldiers, leading ...

When Rubi Cruz recognized her husband's belongings among personal items found at a suspected Mexican ... cartel training camp, she feared the worst — that he had become a victim of forced ...

It is not clear how these numbers have changed over time, though experts say child recruits are getting younger. A Mexican government report into the cartel recruitment of children published last ...