After the death of its top leader, the Familia Michoacana is injured, but it is far from done. The government's attempt to clear President Felipe Calderon's home state of this…
The leader of the Familia Michoacana, Nazario Moreno González, alias "El Chayo" or "El Más Loco," was killed Thursday in a police shootout, said a government spokesman.
The penalties for drug offenses in Colombia and Mexico do not successfully target large-scale traffickers, says a report released Thursday.
A Mexican NGO estimates that there are around 50,000 child abductees in Mexico today. According to Guillermo Gutiérrez Romero, the president of Mexicos Association of Missing and Stolen Children, the majority…
In a record surge of violence, federal police clashed with Familia Michoacana members yesterday in fourteen different municipalities in Michoacán, including the capital city of Morelia.
In a heated firefight this Tuesday, soldiers killed six gunmen in Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, Tamaulipas.
One of the top commanders of the Familia Michoacana is registered as a teacher in his home state and receives a federal salary.
Threatening phone calls made by supposed members of violent crime groups like the Zetas increased 210 percent from 2009, says a Mexican security agency.
A U.S. government cable, reprinted in full here, from the U.S. Embassy in Mexico and various Washington government agencies says an "Embassy interagency" gave Mexican Marines (SEMAR) the…
In a demonstration of the truly global spread of organized crime, Mexican officials arrested a group of drug traffickers that ran an elaborate smuggling operation from the streets of Mexico…
Mexican Federal Police arrested Eduardo Ramírez Valencia, alias 'El Profe,' an alleged operator of the Zetas crime syndicate in the State of Hidalgo.
A January 29, 2010, cable to Washington from the U.S. Embassy in Mexico to Washington released by WikiLeaks and revealed in its full version here shows that as least one…
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