The United States has imposed sanctions against two sons of Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in the latest effort to clamp down on the drug cartel – but Mexican authorities claim that there are no investigations on the Guzman brothers.

The Spanish judge best known for issuing an arrest warrant against Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet has said that Mexico is winning the war against organized crime in Ciudad Juarez. But the statement is best described as rhetoric, rather than an accurate description of Juarez's more complex reality.

Argentine singer Facundo Cabral’s murder in Guatemala last year sparked an investigation which spans the hemisphere. Plaza Publica reports that his alleged killer may be ensnared in a wider conspiracy, involving a Colombian gang's attempts to turn Sinaloa Cartel boss 'El Chapo’ over to US authorities.

As the Mexican government claims to be getting closer to capturing the country’s most notorious drug lord, an ex-president claims that the US is negotiating the terms of “El Chapo’s” surrender.

Mexican authorities said that their recent near-capture of drug lord Joaquin Guzman, alias “El Chapo,” was foiled by his last minute decision to cut short a planned tryst with a sex worker.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Sinaloa Cartel leader "Chapo" Guzman have been accused of crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court (ICC), raising questions about the application of international humanitarian law to the "war on drugs."

Borderland Beat investigates the story of an immigrant to the US, seemingly a successful perfume business owner, who became a money launderer for 'El Chapo' and his Sinaloa Cartel via the Black Market Peso Exchange.

A report by a Mexican judicial official illustrates that while the country’s drug conflict has become dominated by the Sinaloa Cartel and the Zetas, the latter have established control in more territory. But this does not mean that they are now the more powerful of the two.

Mexico's capture of a 'Chapo' Guzman's "security chief" means one of two things: Mexican authorities are close to seizing the most wanted drug trafficker in the world; Mexican authorities are not disciplined enough yet to capture the most wanted drug trafficker in the world.

On the anniversary of the death of one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords, analyst Alejandro Hope looks at the government's strategy of taking down high-value targets, which many criticize as destabilizing the underworld and triggering more violence.