Mexico has faced a long drug war for many years. Powerful criminal groups fight for land, money, and control of drug routes. They act like illegal businesses with armed members and large networks.

Throughout 2025, Mexican authorities have delivered major blows to drug trafficking organizations, with millions of pounds of drugs and precursor chemicals seized, as well as dozens of arrests of high ...

The government’s killing of “El Mencho” on February 22 provoked a spasm of violence by his cartel that has been, in some ways, unprecedented. But previous displays of force by aggrieved criminal ...

Drug kingpin Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes may be dead, but the Jalisco cartel he ran for years will likely outlive him—thanks, in part, to the criminal group’s embrace of technology. “El ...