The recent surge in cartel warfare had been expected after Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of former Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, landed near El Paso, Texas on July 25 in a small plane with Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Wednesday demanded that former Secretary of Public Security Genaro García Luna, who was convicted on drug trafficking charges in the United States last year,

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has dismissed allegations from his country's jailed ex-security chief that he has links to drug cartels.

Twelve days before his term in office concludes, the president of Mexico ripped into the U.S. government for allegedly making an under-the-table deal that landed two Sinaloa cartel leaders in American jails and,