All news on the topic: Sinaloa Cartel

The U.S. has asked Australia to extradite Ian Taylor, a business registration agent whose family set up firms used by organizations including the Islamist militant group Hezbollah, and Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel.

Mexico will auction the plot of land where a drug kingpin was killed in a shoot-out with the army.

A global collection of organized crime groups have entered into the lucrative business of trafficking drugs through Fiji.

Relations between Mexico and the United States are being pushed to breaking point amid accusations by Washington that Mexican officials have been “in bed for years” with drug traffickers, and reports of CIA agents freely operating south of the border.

A day after the Mexican military killed Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes, the leader of one of the country’s most powerful drug cartels, U.S. President Donald Trump claimed credit for his administration.

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The Mexican army killed the country’s most powerful cartel leader and one of the United States’ most wanted fugitives, marking a significant victory while cartel members responded with a wave of violence across the country.

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned the Los Mayos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, including the leader of its armed wing, Juan Jose Ponce Felix, known as “El Ruso.”

Mexico extradited 26 alleged members of the CJNG and Sinaloa cartels to the United States, with President Claudia Sheinbaum insisting the move was a sovereign decision amid growing pressure from Washington to crack down on drug trafficking.

The U.S. Treasury issued its first actions under the FEND Off Fentanyl Act, designating three Mexico-based financial institutions as primary money laundering concerns tied to drug cartels and synthetic opioid trafficking.

European authorities dismantle a meth network linked to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel and gangs in Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, and New Zealand.

Jorge Humberto Figueroa, who went by the nickname "El Perris", was shot and killed Friday in a raid carried out to arrest him

Trump has promised an all out attack on the drug trade.

One of Europe’s most wanted drug kingpins has been gunned down in Mexico after years of evading arrest.

When Mario heard the news in mid-May 2023, he immediately suspended his operations

On September 21, 2021, Javier Algredo Vázquez was on his way to a US law enforcement office to reclaim chemical substances authorities had seized from him days earlier. In some respects, his trip that day was a remarkable act of hubris.

Organized crime in Ecuador today operates on several levels.

The first sign that armed gang members had invaded a TV station in Guayaquil came when two masked youths appeared in the corner of the screen during a live news broadcast.

Cellphone chats have become death sentences in the continuing, bloody factional war inside Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel.

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 powerful leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, pleaded not guilty Friday in a U.S. drug trafficking case that accuses him of engaging in murder plots and ordering torture.

The murders of about a dozen people in the northern Mexico state of Sinaloa appear to be linked to cartel infighting, something authorities had feared would follow the July 25 detention of two top cartel leaders.

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.