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The year 2024 included some stark reminders that drug trafficking money can reach the highest levels of politics. From Honduras to Mexico to Colombia, allegations of narco-political contributions shook the foundations of power and disrupted international relations.

The abduction of a Mexican community activist who campaigned against an iron ore mine owned by New York-listed Ternium has shone a light on how local cartels benefit from the presence of mining companies in the region.

Organized crime, systemic corruption, and a culture of machismo are fueling a devastating crisis for women and girls in Mexico, where only a tiny minority of human trafficking cases are investigated by authorities.

A former prosecutor and local police official was arrested Tuesday in connection with the grisly decapitation of a mayor on Oct. 6.

A British beautician facing decades behind bars after being accused of smuggling cocaine into the US from Mexico has insisted she believed she was only carrying bags of cash across the border.

Among the many horrifying videos posted online amid Mexico’s drug cartel violence, few have been as profoundly shocking as that of a 14-year-old boy kidnapped in late October along with about a dozen family members in the country’s south.

The Mexican Navy said Tuesday it has seized 3.6 tons (about 8,000 pounds) of cocaine aboard a "narco sub" off the Pacific coast which was spotted earlier this week about 153 miles off the resort of Acapulco.

President-elect refuses to invite Spanish king to her inauguration after lack of apology for crimes of conquest

Some 53 people have been killed and 51 others are missing in Mexico’s western Sinaloa state since rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel began clashing on Sept 9, local authorities said on Friday, with gruesome violence showing no signs of abating.

Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, a prominent leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, pleaded not guilty on Friday to U.S. charges of drug trafficking. The case accuses him of orchestrating murder plots and ordering acts of torture as part of his cartel’s operations.

The United States has released Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, the former Gulf Cartel leader who created the Zetas and ushered in the hyper-violent organized crime wars that have marked Mexico since the turn of the century.

On a deserted, unpaved street in the rural community of La Loma, a young man in his twenties stands on a street corner in the early hours of a cloudy morning. On his hip he holds several walkie-talkies and at least one pistol.

Controversy and conflicting narratives persist around the arrests of two top Sinaloa Cartel leaders in the United States, raising questions about what led to the detentions and how the historic leadership blow may impact one of Mexico’s most powerful drug trafficking organizations.

Organized crime in Mexico has found the mangroves an ideal, remote spot to hide their synthetic drug laboratories, leaving fishermen in Sinaloa to deal with contamination affecting their homes and livelihoods.

Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada Garcia has been captured by the US government, according to reports, after a lengthy manhunt that came with a $15 million reward for his capture

The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Tuesday three Mexican accountants implicated in a timeshare fraud scheme run by one of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels.

THE Sunshine State is famous for attracting millions of thrill-seekers – but rollercoasters are not the only thing Florida has to offer.Fort Myers i

UK ANTI-DOPING chiefs banned a boxer for four years despite him dying three months earlier.Mexican Moises Calleros sadly passed away, aged 34, of a su

WEST HAM star Edson Alvarez was forced off in tears during Mexico's Copa America opener.The Manchester United target pulled up with an apparent hamstr

By the time the children were pulled out, they were unresponsive - paramedics arrived on the scene in Reynosa, Mexico minutes later - but were unable to revive the youngsters

Emma Coronel, the wife of jailed Mexican drug lord El Chapo, appears to be getting back to work in the beauty industry following her release from prison in the US last year

THIS is the heart-stopping moment a screaming swimmer was left battling in the water against an enormous crocodile.Terrifying footage captured the man

Husband and wife Jorge Guillen, 43, and Lizette Zambrano, 35, were at the Sonoran Sea Resort in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico, when they decided to enjoy a hot tub on the evening of June 11

A statue of the Virgin Mary, as Our Lady of Guadalupe, has claimed to have cried tears of blood in Mexico with dark streaks pictured running down the cheeks leading to an investigation by the Catholic Church

TWIN boys were ritually sacrificed together at a notorious temple, scientists have found.Researchers carried out genetic analysis on the remains of 64