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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sinaloa cartel leader Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada set to plead guilty in drug trafficking case

Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada is accused of ordering torture, plotting murders and flooding the U.S. with cocaine, heroin and ...

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 ...

Videos show record levels of violence in Mexican state after arrest of cartel kingpin

After the capture of a Sinaloa Cartel boss, social media videos illustrate record levels of violence as Trump eyes military ...