In March 2019, President López Obrador announced an operation called Golpe de Timón, meaning a “Change of Course,” aimed at dismantling the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel. InSight Crime Analysis Even with ...

LIMA, Peru | With the magical sound of wooden flutes, the scent of incense, and the warm Andean sun making shadow patterns across the rolling hills, this event has all ...

Mexican security forces on Sunday arrested the alleged leader of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel, José Antonio Yépez Ortiz, commonly known as “El Marro” – the Sledgehammer.

José Antonio “El Marro” Yépez Ortiz, leader of the Santa Rosa de Lima cartel in Mexico, is flanked by security forces Sunday in this photo made available by the Guanajuato State Attorney's ...

The Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel has been behind increasing violence in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato over the last year — amid a bitter clash with the Jalisco Cartel. But a threat claimed to ...

Mexican security forces on Sunday arrested the alleged leader of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel, José Antonio Yépez Ortiz, commonly known as “El Marro” – the Sledgehammer.

Santa Rosa de Lima was precisely the kind of local gang that the Jalisco cartel has deftly taken over in the past in its relentless expansion across Mexico, co-opting local gang members in a sort ...