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Ernesto Barajas, musician who celebrated drug cartel exploits in songs, shot dead in parking lot in Mexico

Ernesto Barajas was gunned down in the city of Zapopan, police said. Another man died in the attack and a woman was injured.

A cartel war bleeding Sinaloa dry: homicides rise 400% in the year after the fall of ‘El Mayo’

August 10 was, for many in Mexico, a quiet Sunday like any other. But in Sinaloa—a northwestern state facing the Pacific—it ...
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Former Cartel Leader Reportedly Hired a Hacker To Track Down YouTuber Later Killed In Mexico

Cartel leader Damaso Lopez Serrano, better known as "El Mini Lic," reportedly hired a hacker to track down YouTuber Camilo ...

Former Sinaloa cartel kingpin Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada set to plead guilty

Former Mexican cartel kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada is set to plead guilty next week in a drug trafficking case that ...
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Michigan poker champion who claimed cartel kidnapping pleads guilty to $3.9M fraud scheme

He was found bloodied and zip-tied on the side of the road in Huron County, and he claimed he was extorted for approximately ...

Guilty plea by El Chapo cohort planned as cartel offensive starts

Ismael Zambada Garcia was El Chapo’s right hand man for decades; co-founder of the bloodthirsty Sinaloa cartel and now he’s ...

Mexico transfers 26 cartel figures wanted by US authorities in deal with Trump administration

Mexico is sending 26 high-ranking cartel figures to the United States in the latest major deal with the Trump administration.

4,500 Marines and sailors deploy to Caribbean for anti-cartel mission

The Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit are going to the southern Caribbean in a show of ...

Arrest of cartel kingpin spurs record levels of violence in Mexican state

After the capture of a Sinaloa Cartel boss in El Paso, Texas, social media videos illustrate record levels of violence as ...