Facts: President Enrique Peña Nieto, who assumed the presidency on December 1, 2012, has continued the fight started by President Felipe Calderon against the cartels and drug-related violence. A huge ...

President-elect Joe Biden’s arrival in the White House is expected to bring a shake-up of US-Mexican cooperation in a bloody war on drugs that has failed to rein in powerful cartels, experts say.

If the drug trade has helped define the modern Mexican state, writes the author of a new article in The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, so too have wars on drugs. In "From Bandit Hunting to a War ...

The recent killing of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, the leader of the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) who was commonly referred to by his alias “El Mencho”, has once again brought global ...

On a Sunday in February, Mexico's second-largest city ground to a standstill. Gunmen used burning cars as flaming barricades, shutting down traffic in and out of Guadalajara. Terrified zoo visitors ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum speaks during a briefing at Palacio Nacional in Mexico City last month. (Cristopher Rogel ...

This article was originally published on CFR.org and updated by NBC News. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Violence continues to ...

The mechanic was working under a car when he turned his head and saw a dozen pick-up trucks creeping down the street in Mexico’s western state of Jalisco. “The devil is on the loose,” Jorge Gerardo ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Raul Zepeda Gil is a Research Fellow in the War Studies ...