MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican security forces on Saturday caught the leader of the cocaine-trafficking Gulf Cartel, local media reported, the second major gang boss capture in just over a month as President Enrique Pena Nieto fights cartel violence.
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — A man who moderated a website denouncing drug violence on Mexico's northeast border was found beheaded Wednesday, local police said, in the fourth such apparent revenge attack since September.
Mexican troops detained 80 suspected members of the Zetas drug gang, including six police, in eastern Veracruz and broke up their network of encrypted communications, the military said Thursday.
MEXICO CITY — A 19-day army crackdown on the violent Zetas drug gang in northern Mexico has left 31 dead including a soldier and an alleged local gang leader, the defense ministry said Thursday.
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (AFP) – An American man who was reported missing in March has been identified among 183 corpses found in hidden graves in April in northeastern Mexico, a US diplomat said Wednesday.
