Two hooded men carrying various makeshift explosives and knives stormed a school in the border state of Coahuila, unleashing a wave of terror, killing one teacher and injuring several others before they were stopped.
A husband and wife from Mexico stand accused in a U.S. federal court of running a human smuggling operation that would drug young children in order to get them across the border.
A federal judge in Texas sentenced a man from Houston, who was working with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, to 35 years in prison in connection with helping run a deadly human smuggling network. The man was already serving an 11-year prison sentence on a separate but connected drug case.
A Mexican politician who is the ex-husband of a current border state governor is one of 21 individuals tied to the Sinaloa Cartel who are facing a new set of sanctions from the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
A Venezuelan illegal alien with a final order of removal from an immigration judge is now facing federal charges for assaulting a federal officer. The Venezuelan man was shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer at the end of a high-speed pursuit where he allegedly rammed an officer’s vehicle.
Mexico’s top security official Omar Garcia Harfuch confirmed that last week’s “historic” cartel fuel seizure was not what they led people to believe.
U.S. Troops working alongside Ecuadorian law enforcement carried out a series of raids in the South American country targeting a network of the Mexican terrorist organization Cartel Jalisco New Generation. The Mexican cartel had established a presence there to funnel drugs from Colombia, through Ecuador, into Mexico, and eventually into the United States.
A joint international operation between agents with U.S. ICE Homeland Security Investigations and Colombia’s National Police led to the arrest of five members of a cartel-connected human smuggling network. The cartel reportedly moved hundreds of migrants into the U.S. under the guise of a travel agency and abused the U.S. asylum system.
After years of Breitbart reporting on cartel drone usage, legacy news outlets are beginning to do the catch on.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is blaming the raging cartel violence that she is unable to control in her country on the meddling of the U.S. government for arresting the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. Her comments come at a time when the U.S. government continues to pressure Mexico to eradicate terrorist cartels and go after politicians who protect cartels.
A previously convicted sex offender from Alaska received a sentence of three years’ probation for paying to have a woman from Honduras and her 14-year-old daughter brought over the border.
A Mexican politician from the country’s ruling party is believed to have used her influence to pressure the Mexican military to release her son-in-law. The man was the target of a raid focused on a terrorist cartel extortion operation in the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas.
Mexico’s government is remaining silent about the details surrounding the kidnapping and subsequent release of a politically connected jeweler in the cartel-controlled state of Sinaloa.
Mexico’s government has eggs on its face after it carried out a large-scale raid at a fuel depot and tried to pass it off as a historic cartel fuel-theft raid. The embarrassing news came amid the victory dance when the company that owns the fuel depot produced documents and receipts showing the depot was in legal standing and had all the needed permits.
A series of indictments filed by the U.S. Department of Justice revealed the inner workings of a cell of members of the Russian Intelligence Services that were planning an assassination in the United States. One court document revealed that the Russian spy network had a team of hitmen operating in Mexico.
During the Biden administration, federal authorities had their hands tied in the way they could go after and prosecute members of terrorist cartels, said Aaron Reitz, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas. Reitz explained at a press conference near the Texas-Mexico border that the Trump administration’s Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) designation is allowing the government to take back control of the border.
A city in the Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon cancelled its yearly Independence Day celebration following two days of cartel shootouts in its surrounding areas. Those shootouts killed at least seven gunmen and led to several arrests by authorities.
Mexico’s government announced the deployment of more than 1,800 federal troops to the cartel-controlled state of Sinaloa. Despite prior deployments, the Sinaloa Cartel continues to wage a fierce turf war that has killed thousands and led to the disappearance of thousands more.
Authorities in Central Mexico have found more than 1,000 crypto mining rigs and several other pieces of high-tech equipment that were believed to be used by terrorist cartels as a way to launder money and finance their operations.
Mexico’s top military official confirmed that his forces have not shot down or intercepted a single cartel drone along its northern border after recently having announced a team-up effort with U.S. authorities. This as U.S. forces shot down more than 300 drones so far this year.
A federal senator from Mexico’s ruling party MORENA has come under political fire after directly threatening a journalist who exposed the cartel connections and an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice into a fellow senator from the same party.
Vast territories in Mexico are not controlled by the state, but by terrorist cartels, said U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, adding that Mexico’s efforts to stop them are not nearly enough. In his statements, Rubio implied that the threat posed by terrorist cartels will be dealt with, with or without Mexico’s help.
The government of Mexico announced that a member of the country’s National Guard, who published a video last week claiming his bosses and colleagues were working with local drug cartels, was found dead along with two other victims.
A mayor in the central Mexican state of Puebla is in federal police custody in connection with his alleged leadership role in a criminal organization that carried out large-scale highway robberies. The robberies targeted tractor-trailers moving commercial goods.
The U.S. Consulate in the Mexican border city of Nogales, Sonora, issued a travel alert warning of an unspecified threat. Mexico’s government responded with a statement claiming they had no information about any security issues or threats in the region.
A 15-year-old gunman who worked as the bodyguard of his uncle, a top cartel leader in Michoacan, flaunted his lifestyle on social media. His story ended in a hail of gunfire when Mexican military forces hunted him down, killing him and his uncles during a raid targeting the leadership of the terror group known as Carteles Unidos.
A Gulf Cartel gunman who was trying to sneak into the U.S. illegally is now facing federal terrorism charges. Prosecutors allege he took part in surveillance, enforcement, and the disposal of bodies for the Gulf Cartel in Mexico. The Gulf Cartel is one of seven Mexican drug cartels that have been labeled as foreign terrorist organizations by the U.S. government.
Mexican authorities arrested two men in connection with the murder of a popular musician in Mexico and three members of his family, including their three-year-old daughter and the musician’s pregnant wife. The apparent motive for the mass killing was a debt or an attempt to steal bitcoin from the musician.
Mexican military forces killed a cartel boss in the western state of Michoacan after a shootout. The clash comes as Mexican authorities have been cracking down on cartel operations in that western state after intensified pressure from the United States government.
Two members of Cartel Jalisco New Generation pleaded guilty to various federal charges, including providing support to a terrorist organization for their role in helping the cartel’s drug and human smuggling operations, as well as running a large-scale gun supply pipeline based in El Paso.
Cartels in Mexico have returned to the use of car and roadside bombs in a series of terror attacks in the western part of the country.
A longtime member of a special unit with the Coahuila State Police died on Tuesday morning while trying to fight off an incursion by the terrorist organization known as the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas. The incursion is just the latest attempt by the cartel to expand their territory into Coahuila, while government forces try to stop their spread.
The U.S. Consulate in Tijuana issued a travel alert warning U.S. citizens to be cautious when visiting the popular city of Mexicali due to undisclosed cartel threats. Mexican news outlets are reporting that the threats are tied to the Rusos cell of the Sinaloa Cartel planning to attack police buildings.
A series of comments by the head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) sparked new controversy in Mexico, as he pointed to “high-level officials” within the government as “working directly” with Mexican terrorist organizations such as Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) and the Sinaloa Cartel.
A little more than one day after having resumed his role as governor of the Mexican state of Sinaloa, accused drug trafficker Ruben Rocha Moya announced that he was stepping down indefinitely. The move came after the narco-politician sparked much infighting within Mexico’s ruling party MORENA. His move led most party members, including President Claudia Sheinbaum and all the governors, to turn their backs on him, claiming he was putting his personal interests ahead of the party’s well-being.
Conflict and division have descended over Mexico’s ruling party MORENA after one of their state governors went back to his post despite being a fugitive from the United States Department of Justice and facing a criminal indictment on drug trafficking and weapons charges. The move by the accused drug trafficker led to the MORENA party turning its back on him and publicly distancing itself from him.
Argentina’s government sent to Mexico a Mexican Navy vice admiral wanted for his alleged role in a fuel smuggling conspiracy that is believed to include some of the country’s top military brass and politicians at the highest levels.
An accused drug trafficker has resumed his post as governor of Sinaloa in Mexico, despite being a wanted fugitive of the U.S. Department of Justice. The move comes as tensions continue to rise between the U.S. Government and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has been actively defending the politician.
A federal judge set bond for a cartel-connected businessman accused of conspiring with other businessmen and the Gulf Cartel to extort travelers headed to Central or South America who needed to cross through a particular port of entry at $1 million. He posted the bond less than 48 hours later.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum rushed to defend the son of her predecessor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) after the U.S. Department of State revoked his visa, and various news outlets linked him to the cartel-connected illegal fuel market. Sheinbaum claimed there is no evidence of wrongdoing on the politician’s part and that the visa revocation was carried out for political purposes.