"El Borrado" was named as the current leader of the criminal organization ... identified as owners of boat camps that enable the Gulf Cartel to charge fishermen wanting to cross into U.S. waters.

The Biden administration is planning to hand over Osiel Cardenas, a notorious drug cartel leader, to Mexico after releasing him from prison last week. Cardenas, who led the Gulf Cartel and founded ...

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that “everything has returned to normal” following the capture of the criminal leader in Nuevo ... with cells of the Gulf Cartel, as well as ...

The violence in Nuevo Laredo, just south of Texas, followed the arrest of an alleged local cartel leader known as "El Ricky." ...

Cárdenas Guillén’s nickname was "El Mata Amigos," or "The one who kills his friends," and the 57-year-old once moved tons of cocaine and made millions of dollars while leading the Gulf cartel ...

Osiel Cárdenas Guillén (born 18 May 1967) is a Mexican drug lord and the former leader of the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas. Originally a mechanic in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, he entered the cartel by ...

Mexican drug kingpin Osiel Cardenas Guillen, former leader of the notorious Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas criminal gang, was deported from the United States to Mexico Monday after serving years in ...

An alleged high-level cartel leader who was arrested by Mexican authorities following a 2020 shootout on the streets of ...

12 September:Gulf Cartel leader Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez, also known as El Cos, is arrested. American Édgar Valdez was born in Texas. He fled the country on charges of distributing drugs.

The Gulf Cartel was in the midst of a violent turf war when Cárdenas Guillén took over as its leader in 1999. For his protection, Cárdenas Guillén hired a bodyguard (retired Army lieutenant ...