War on drugs

Both the ELN and FARC-EMC have long fought for control over this drug-rich area, but recent violence marks a significant escalation.

Claudia Sheinbaum emphasized her openness to collaboration while maintaining "sovereignty and independence"

When asked if "Los Chapitos" are the ones producing fentanyl she said "that is something that the security Cabinet needs to inform about as they are the ones with all the knowledge"

Authorities say "El Pelón" was using Culiacán as a hiding place and to coordinate attacks against rival groups

More than 392,000 people have had to leave their homes due to cartel-related violence between 2008 and 2023

Prosecutors say that García Luna provided intelligence about investigations against the cartel, information about rivals and the safe passage of drug shipments

Between 2007 and 2019, fatal overdoses among Latinos from opioids mixed with cocaine rose 729%. They have risen 4,600% when mixed with methamphetamines

InSight Crime detailed how the Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel are cracking down on fentanyl production amid government pressure

A look at the plight of the "Madres Buscadoras" from Jalisco amid the crisis of forced disappearances in the country

The initiative seeks to foster the creation of new jobs and job retention in the state

Criminal organizations employ as many Mexicans as some of the largest companies doing legitimate business in the country, reveals new research

Mexico repeats on this list, issued on the same day this country extradited a son of major drug lord Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán to the US

The new numbers came out a day after Colombia's first-ever leftist president Gustavo Petro and his Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador criticized the "failed" US-led so-called "war on drugs."

Petro, the first leftist president in Colombia's history, stressed recognizing drug consumption as a public health problem.

Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán points fingers at what seems to be the real masterminds behind the drug trade on both Mexican and United States borders.

Ernesto Zedillo, Cesar Gaviria and Fernando Henrique Cardoso fear that a U.N. panel on narcotics will shut them out of the debate on the drug war.

Sean Penn may have lied about El Chapo's reported confession

Sean Penn met with cartel boss’ son ahead of controversial interview, according to a Spanish newspaper

If Sean Penn wants a conversation on the failed Drug War, he’s not going to get one from Marco Rubio or the Border Patrol.

DEA accusations of Venezuelan drug trafficking got serious on Wednesday with arrest of President Maduro’s relatives.

Enrique Serrano is not happy about the way producers portrayed the city in it.

Pope Francis targeted Mexico between the lines in his call for rethinking the War on Drugs, in which he described state failures in what sounded like Latin America.

Brazil is on the brink of decriminalizing marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs as supreme court judges indicated this week that the current prohibition on drugs is ineffective and violates citizens’ rights to privacy.

The president indicated in a recent interview that he supports state-level marijuana legalization as an experiment. But his stance on Latin America's drug war don't seem to reflect his apparent openness on the subject.