Sinaloa, Mexico News

More repression against terrorist and illegal armed groups could be behind the strengthening of the presence of Mexican drug cartels in the country.

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The Obama administration has levied financial sanctions again eight drug gang bosses accused of working for Mexico's powerful and violent Sinaloa Cartel.

The Chicago Crime Commission named a new Public Enemy No. 1 on Thursday, a designation originally crafted for Al Capone.

The handcuffed bodies of two Spanish men have been found with bullet wounds in a car dumped in a canal in the Mexican state of Sinaloa.

A defense attorney says a reputed security chief for Mexico's powerful Sinaloa cartel could soon be extradited to Chicago.

Native varieties of maize, like these drying in San CristA3bal de las Casas, in the southern state of Chiapas, are key to preserving crop diversity.

McEwen Mining Inc. Chief Owner, Rob McEwen, along with senior management, will be hosting a conference call Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 11:30 AM EST to provide the first quarter Company update.

OFAC has announced the designation of eight Mexican nationals as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act .

The Obama administration has levied financial sanctions again eight drug gang bosses accused of working for Mexico's powerful and violent Sinaloa Cartel.

Eight high-ranking members of the Sinaloa drug cartel, who direct drug smuggling along a 375-mile area of the U.S.-Arizona border, were named Tuesday by the Treasury Department as narcotics kingpins - which targets them for multimillion-dollar fines and severe prison sentences.

The corpses, two of them decapitated, were discovered next to the Mexico City-Nogales highway near the town of Ahome, a spokesman for the Sinaloa state Attorney-General's Office said.

As Barack Obama heads to Mexico , U.S. involvement in Mexico's battle against drug cartels is getting a lot of press .

The Mexican government confirmed that Ines Coronel Barreras, the father-in-law of Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, was arrested in an operation with no shots fired.

The United States offered to capture drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in a "simple, fast and surgical" operation that would take 15 minutes, but the Mexican military opposed the plan, journalist Jesus Esquivel said in an interview with Efe.

The United States offered to capture drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in a "simple, fast and surgical" operation that would take 15 minutes, but the Mexican military opposed the plan, journalist Jesus Esquivel said in an interview with Efe.

Mexican authorities say they have detained the father-in-law of alleged drug lord Joaquin Guzman, who is Mexico's most wanted man.

The death of a South Texas singer well known for his ballads, including some about the exploits of Mexican drug cartels, was being treated as a murder investigation after authorities found his body Thursday on a rural road.

A Mexican woman on trial in the US has pleaded guilty to helping the former head of the powerful Norte del Valle cartel evade justice between 2002-04. Sandra Avila Beltran, 52, dubbed Queen of the Pacific, admitted to "hindering the arrest" of Juan Diego Espinosa Ramirez, her boyfriend at the time.

The bodies of six men were found inside an SUV near the industrial zone in Ahome, a city in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, police said.