Mexican Drug Cartels Move North
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MEXICO CITY, Sept. 19 -- Mexican drug cartels now operate in almost every region of the United States and bring in as much as $23 billion a year in revenue, according to a Government Accountability Office report that will be released Thursday.
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The bodies of nine people, including three federal agents, were discovered at a pair of sites outside Cancun, a Mexican resort city that lies near a route used to smuggle cocaine from Colombia to America's streets.
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Warring drug cartels have brought a surge in gruesome violence to this Mexican resort town.
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Mexico sends thousands of troops to deal with a wave of drug-related crime in the western state of Michoacan.
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Authorities suspect a new threat is lurking in the mountains and jungles of Colombia: Not a new rebel cadre, but altered coca plants that are bigger, faster-growing and produce more of the compound that gives cocaine its kick.
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MEXICO CITY, Dec. 11 -- More than 5,000 Mexican soldiers and federal police officers swept into the troubled state of Michoacan on Monday hoping to quell a long, barbaric war between rival drug cartels.
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When machinegun-toting hit men fought a bloody battle with police and troops around the Mexico town of Cananea that left 23 dead in May, it at first seemed to be the latest chapter in a very Mexican drug war.
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CANCUN, Mexico Police in Mexico are blaming nine murders in the Cancun (kan-KOON&#39;) area on a drug turf war. Five bodies have been found just off the highway leading to the airport.
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TIJUANA, Mexico  - Mexico sent hundreds of police reinforcements to the border city of Tijuana on Tuesday following a rash of organized crime killings and as Mexican media said two cops were shot dead in another northern town.
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Off-duty and former police, prison guards, and firefighters are moving in to oust the drug gangs.
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Behind the glitzy playgrounds of Cancun is a growing drug war, fueled by widespread police corruption, the partial disruption of once-popular trafficking routes through Haiti and a sudden turf battle between two of the country's main drug gangs.
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Mexican troops arrested a leading member of one of the country's two main drug gangs and seized nearly a million dollars in cash, a victory in President Felipe Calderon's fight against traffickers.
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Mexico sends more troops and police to states bordering Texas, in a further attempt to crack down on drug gangs.
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The United States, Colombia and Mexico are slowing the flow of cocaine and methamphetamine into the U.S., according to new figures from the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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Mexico's government said Thursday it would send troops and police to root out drug smugglers in several states, expanding an offensive that began this week in one violence-plagued state where soldiers clashed with traffickers trying to protect a marijuana field.
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CULIACAN, Mexico  - From the lush mountain valleys of Peru to America's toughest streets, ruthless Mexican gangs are grabbing control of the multi-billion dollar cocaine and crystal meth smuggling trade.
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Seventeen Mexican drug agents were picked up last week for alleged involvement in trafficking in Canc&#250;n.