Police blame a new spate of violence on a fight among criminal organizations for control of illegal methamphetamine sales in Juarez, Mexico.

An international manhunt is underway to capture a former state security chief for allegedly colluding with a Jalisco Cartel cell in Tabasco.

Organized crime is affecting hospitals in some Mexican states, even taking over operating rooms and emergency rooms and forcing doctors and personnel to treat the wounded.

Mexico recorded 7,399 missing persons cases in the first half of 2025, marking a nearly 18% increase from the same period last year, a monitoring group reports.

Thomas Tellier was convicted on Thursday of the murder of his stepson, 27-year-old Nicholas Trynor on Aug. 6, 2022.

Twenty bodies were discovered -- including four decapitated corpses hanging from a bridge near a plastic bag of human heads -- after a bloody day of cartel violence in Mexico over the weekend.

Antonio Gomez, 45, was fatally shot in Ranchos De Taos, N.M., on Wednesday, July 16, the New Mexico State Police announced in a statement. A woman, identified as Gomez's ex-wife, was also shot and survived the attack.

InSight Crime spoke with Felipe Romero and Itzel Arteaga, authors of the recent “2024 Report on the Situation of Individuals and Communities Defending Environmental Human Rights in Mexico” from the Mexican Center of Environmental Rights (Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental – CEMDA), an organization that documents and denounces violence against environmental defenders in Mexico.

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on June 5 rejected Mexico’s attempt to hold U.S. gunmakers liable for violence and atrocities Mexican drug cartels have inflicted using their weapons. The court ...