The recent entry of 17 family members of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán into the U.S. is part of a coordinated strategy that reflects a calculated decision within the Sinaloa Cartel, a Mexican expert is cl

“Operation Take Back America initiatives reflect the reality that narco-terrorists operate as a cancer within a state,” U.S. Attorney Adam Gordon for the Southern District of California said. “They metastasize violence, corruption and fear. If left unchecked, their growth would lead to the death of law and order.”

Iván Archivaldo Guzmán evades capture using tactics he learned from his father, Sinaloa cartel founder Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.

We chronicle how an internal war split the Sinaloa Cartel between two rival factions, and how it has affected Mexico's crime landscape.

An eight-month conflict between Sinaloa Cartel factions erupted into blockades and shootouts, raising security concerns across the region.

Dozens of children have been killed during months of fighting between two factions of the Sinaloa drug cartel in northwestern Mexico, a local ombudsman says. Nearly 100 minors have gone missing in violence that followed the capture last July of a cartel co-founder,

Narcocorridos — or drug ballads — are more popular than ever in Mexico, where a generation that came of age during the drug war has embraced songs that recount both the spoils and the excessive violence of organized crime.