The new boss of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartel was born in California — raising thorny legal questions about how the ...

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On a Sunday in February, Mexico's second-largest city ground to a standstill. Gunmen used burning cars as flaming barricades, shutting down traffic in and out of Guadalajara. Terrified zoo visitors ...

For a president who made going after drug cartels one of his political priorities, it is a brazen contradiction for Donald Trump to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was ...

Last year, police in Rio de Janeiro raided a luxurious property owned by a local drug lord. The officers described it as a resort because it had an artificial lake and a full gym. On the day the ...

Drug lords like Sean McGovern, a top lieutenant of the Kinahan cartel, and Faissal Taghi — son of the infamous head of the Dutch-Moroccan Mocro Maffia — used to hang out and party in Dubai’s glitzy ...

MIAMI (AP) — One of Colombia's legendary drug lords and a key operator of the Medellin cocaine cartel has been released from a federal prison in the U.S. and is expected to be deported back home.

NEW YORK — After years as one of U.S. authorities’ most wanted men, Mexican drug cartel boss Rafael Caro Quintero was brought into a New York courtroom Friday to answer charges that include ...

Ecuadorian security forces captured José Adolfo Macías Villamar, the country's most notorious drug lord, in June. (Video: Ecuadorian security officials) Video, images and transcripts show the ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Ryan Knutson: On Sunday, Mexican authorities killed one of the world's most ...

MEXICO CITY — Mexico has sent drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a DEA agent in 1985, to the United States with 28 other prisoners requested by the U.S. government, a ...