January 21, 2020 Mexico’s homicide rate hits new record high in 2019 Mexico’s homicide rate hit a new record in 2019 at more than 35,500 murders, suggesting President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s failure to significantly address the country’s violence during his first year in office.
January 13, 2020 Mexico to build monument honoring 9 US-Mexican citizens murdered in ambush A monument will be erected to memorialize nine dual American-Mexican citizens who died in a hail of gunfire during an ambush along a remote stretch of road near the U.S.-Mexico border, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Sunday.
January 9, 2020 Missing Mexican radio host found dead on highway 40 days later The body of a Mexican journalist and radio host who went missing in November was found riddled with bullets Wednesday, officials said.
January 9, 2020 Mexican ex-cartel leader convicted in drug-trafficking ring that brought cocaine, marijuana into US The former leader of Mexico’s Cartel Del Golfo, a violent criminal organization, pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to an international drug trafficking conspiracy that brought cocaine and marijuana into the United States.
January 7, 2020 Mexico reports over 61,000 people missing, discovery of 873 burial pits amid raging drug war The Mexican government released “statistics of horror” on Monday that showed nearly 62,000 citizens have vanished since the country began its increasingly violent drug war against ruthless cartels in 2006.
January 7, 2020 American family attacked on highway in Mexico says 'bullets were everywhere' in deadly rampage A family from Oklahoma who was returning to the U.S. after visiting relatives in Mexico when they were attacked by gunmen on a sparsely traveled stretch of highway near the Texas border said Monday that "bullets were everywhere" during the chase.
January 6, 2020 Lara Logan on cartel brutality: 'There's no justice for most people in Mexico' Investigative journalist Lara Logan joined "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Monday to give insight on the drug war within Mexico and how it impacts the United States.
January 6, 2020 EXCLUSIVE: Lara Logan confronts alleged Mexican cartel doctor accused of torturing DEA agent Lara Logan and her team tracked an allegedly Mexican cartel doctor, who is accused of torturing a U.S. DEA agent in Guadalajara in 1985.
December 31, 2019 Mexico: 7 detained in drug-cartel massacre that killed 9 Americans Mexican prosecutors seven people linked to the November slaughter of nine women and children in an ambush have been detained.
December 30, 2019 Mexican cartel violence, Notre Dame up in flames and Justin Trudeau blackface scandal: World in review 2019 There was no shortage of news from around the world that captivated headlines in 2019.