Despite being a federal fugitive, accused of laundering millions of dollars for one of Mexico’s most ruthless drug cartels, Julio César Godoy says he simply walked into the national legislature here unnoticed in September, right past the cordon of federal police officers watching the building. He...

IN ASCENCION, MEXICO — In this dusty farm town, an hour south of the U.S. border, more than 40 people were abducted – one a week – in the first nine months of the year. Then, on Sept. 21, the kidnappings stopped. That was the day a gang of kidnappers with AK-47s burst into Lolo’s...

In a video that hit the Internet on Monday, a man saying he is the kidnapped brother of Chihuahua state’s former attorney general accuses her and other senior officials of working for gangsters of the Juarez Cartel. Identifying himself as lawyer Mario Gonzalez Rodriguez, the man also accuses...

To embattled authorities  in Tijuana, where heavily armed soldiers patrol the streets and more than 500 people have been killed this year, marijuana is a poisonous weed that enriches death-dealing cartel bosses who earn huge profits smuggling the product north. “Marijuana arrives in the United...

Con su visita a México, el presidente electo de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, busca fortalecer la lucha antidrogas y crear un eje para desarrollar agendas comunes con países que tienen afinidad, opinó hoy el analista Fernando Giraldo. En entrevista con Notimex, Giraldo, quien es decano de la Facultad...