Familia Michoacana
The Familia Michoacana is a once-powerful cartel whose influence drained after the death of its leader in 2014.
READ FULL PROFILEDrone attacks carried out by the Familia Michoacana forced hundreds of residents of towns in Guerrero, Mexico, to flee their…
US officials may designate Mexican crime groups as terrorists, but this mischaracterizes the threat. …
Nelson Alexander Flores Pacheco, alias "Mula", was the liaison between the Mexican Mafia and the MS13 in Tijuana, Mexico.
In Mexico's hotly contested Tierra Caliente region, one priest is caught between the CJNG and a smattering of violent criminal…
Mexico's Familia Michoacana are back in the headlines again. But is it the same cartel as the one that fell…
It was a Saturday, around 12:30 p.m. local time, when a caravan of three vehicles loaded with well-armed men and…
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