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 ...

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.

MORELIA, Mexico (Reuters) - A cult-like drug cartel is defying President Felipe Calderon in his home state in western Mexico by taking on security forces with a menacing mix of violence, ...

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 ...

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 ...