Mexico has been following the same rulebook of engagement with the cartels for much of the past two decades, with very limited success.
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Members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel have set up roadblocks and attacked property and security forces in the days following their leader’s death.
President Claudia Sheinbaum walks a fine line between appeasing Washington and not alienating voters at home.
Some of the same people caught illegally trafficking firearms across the border to Mexico are also selling illicit drugs, including fentanyl, meth and heroin.
Independent gun dealers supplied 83% of crime guns seized in Mexico and traced back to purchases in the US. Chain stores supplied the other 17%.
National and local governments are thought to be responsible for almost half of all attacks on journalists in both countries.
Those seeking to understand the suffering caused by enforced disappearances in Mexico should watch these five films.
Electoral violence has marred the run-up to the June 2 vote. But despite fears over personal safety, support for democracy endures.
Many young Mexican men that are working in precarious conditions are drawn into the fold of drug cartels.
Mexican elections have been marred by political violence for years, and this year will be no different.
Mexico is seeing a spate of public lynchings that show no sign of abating.
The modern Mexico–US drug trade is rooted in the unintended consequences of government policy on both sides of the border.
The American public should understand that the United States has played a critical role in creating and fuelling violence in Latin America via its unsuccessful war on drugs.
Government policies and dangerous conditions affect the ability of researchers working on both sides of the US-Mexico border to conduct scientific fieldwork.
The US may be in sight from the border towns of Sonora, Mexico, but the trip is far from over. Cartels control the desert territory that divides the two countries – and no one gets through for free.
AMLO’s war against organised crime in Mexico isn’t stopping people dying.
A series of brazen, highly visible attacks by Mexican drug cartels have killed at least 50 people in the past month, terrorizing citizens and making the government look weak on crime.
Who are the LeBarons, the Mexican-American Mormons who lost nine family members in a massacre on Nov. 4.?
The election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico could bring about stable change in a country marked by violence and social polarization.
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