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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Four CIA officials were present at a Mexican drug lab raid in Chihuahua; two died in a vehicle crash after the operation. The raid marks at least the third time CIA operatives have joined Chihuahua ...

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 ...