The cartel had previously kidnapped the mayor and his son, releasing them after he agreed to replace the security chief—but ...

The son-in-law of a Mexican drug lord entered a guilty plea over an 11-year price-fixing scheme that used deadly force along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The biggest risk is not that Mr. Trump is committed to a gloves-off plan for the cartels. It’s that, beyond the tough talk, ...

The move would give the U.S. new tools to fight fentanyl trade while exposing businesses to stiff penalties.

President Trump, in one of his first actions back in office, signed an executive order that moves the U.S. government toward designating drug cartels as terrorist organizations. The decision is ...

This included the designation of criminal gangs and drug cartels operating south of the Mexico border as “foreign terrorist organisations” – a first for a US president. The state department ...

Since then, both Democrats and Republicans have promoted the concept of 'narcoterrorism,'" says Oswaldo Zavala, author of Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s executive order moving toward designating drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations would ...

which Trump keeps mentioning when he talks to Mexican presidents.” And ultimately the designation marks a public paradigm shift: framing foreign drug cartels as a security threat — as ...