cartel

30 Gulf cartel suspects captured in north Mexico (AP)

September 30th, 2010

Members of the navy escort alleged members of the Golf drug cartel as they are presented to the press in Mexico City, Wednesday Sept. 29, 2010. The suspects were detained during the last 24 hours in different operations in the border cities of Matamoros and Reynosa, northern Mexico, navy officials said. (AP Photo/Claudio Cruz)AP - Mexican marines captured 30 suspected Gulf cartel members and seized an arsenal of weapons during two days of raids in a northern border state torn by drug gang…

Drug cartel suspected in massacre of 72 migrants (AP)

August 25th, 2010

Weapons seized from drug traffickers before being destroyed at the workshops of the Mexican Secretary of Defense in Mexico City, on August 18. A shootout in Mexico, across from Texas, uncovered what appeared to be the largest body dumping ground since President Felipe Calderon launched an offensive on warring drug gangs in 2006.(AFP/File/Ronaldo Schemidt)AP - A Mexican drug cartel massacred 72 Central and South American migrants within 100 miles of the U.S. border that they were trying to reach, according to an Ecuadorian…

AP Exclusive: Sinaloa cartel wins Juarez turf war (AP)

April 9th, 2010

A federal police sniper looks out from a helicopter during patrol over Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Thursday, April 8, 2010. The federal police is taking the lead of the city's security which was headed by the army in recent months. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - After a two-year battle that has killed more than 5,000 people, Mexico’s most powerful kingpin now controls the coveted trafficking routes through Ciudad Juarez. That conclusion by U.S.…

AP Exclusive: Sinaloa cartel takes Ciudad Juarez (AP)

April 9th, 2010

A federal police sniper looks out from a helicopter during patrol over Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Thursday, April 8, 2010. The federal police is taking the lead of the city's security which was headed by the army in recent months. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - After a two-year battle that has killed more than 5,000 people, Mexico’s most powerful kingpin now controls the coveted trafficking routes through Ciudad Juarez. That conclusion by U.S.…

New border violence erupts with Mexico cartel rift (AP)

March 13th, 2010

AP - This border city and others near the eastern end of the U.S. border escaped the worst of Mexico’s bloody drug war for years, but now the bodies are…