The author of The Imaginary U.S.—Mexico Drug Wars: State Power, Organized Crime, and the Political History of Narconarratives (1975–2012), explains to WIRED that the war against drug ...

death and devastation that Chapo and his Sinaloa cartel had brought to the Mexican border cities. His war of conquest of key drug smuggling routes into America cost tens of thousands of lives.

The Mexican Drug War, launched in December 2006 by then-President Felipe Calderon, is approaching its eight-year mark. The mass kidnapping came at the same time as a couple of high-profile busts.

The Trump administration plans to designate Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations to enhance drug trafficking ...

President Donald Trump called for the State Department to label Mexican cartels as "foreign terrorist organizations," a move ...