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By the 1990s, the Gulf Cartel's drug trafficking operation was reportedly bringing in billions of dollars every year. It maintained this network by engaging in political corruption and bribery as ...

The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Friday sanctioned five people and two entities for links to "a violent Mexico-based ...

The Gulf Cartel controls much of the area near where the fighting took place Wednesday, but there have been ongoing battles between Gulf Cartel factions for control of smuggling routes along the ...

Chris Olivarez, a spokesperson with the DPS, said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, "For decades, the Gulf Cartel has maintained control of the area, but there has been an ongoing battle between ...

Mexican drug kingpin Osiel Cardenas Guillen, former leader of the notorious Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas criminal gang, was ...

The Biden administration is planning to hand over Osiel Cardenas, a notorious drug cartel leader, to Mexico after releasing him from prison last week. Cardenas, who led the Gulf Cartel and founded ...

The Zetas, a group born out of deserters from the Mexican armed forces in the service of the Gulf Cartel, were the first to use this type of vehicle in the early 2010s. Mexico’s National Defense ...

MEXICO CITY -- Cellphone chats have become death sentences in the continuing, bloody factional war inside Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel. Cartel gunmen stop youths on the street or in their cars and ...

Mexican troops shot dead 19 suspected members of the Sinaloa cartel after they came under attack in the northwestern state, the ministry of defense said Tuesday. Military personnel were attacked ...