Ildefonso Ortiz

Mexican military forces clashed with Gulf Cartel gunmen in the border city of Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas. The clashes come after months of military forces avoiding direct conflict with gunmen.

A group of tourists who were traveling from the northern Mexican border region to western Mexico came under fire in the central part of the country during an apparent highway robbery attempt.

Mexican Army soldiers killed 19 cartel gunmen and arrested a local crime boss during a shootout this week in the war-torn state of Sinaloa. The shootout comes as two rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel wage a fierce turf war, leading to hundreds of murders and forced disappearances.

Authorities in Mexico are investigating two separate attacks in the state of Guanajuato where cartel gunmen blew up two police vehicles and one station using car bombs. The terror-style attack comes as cartel gunmen have been directly targeting police officers as a way to force them to pick sides in a fierce cartel turf war.

Authorities in Mexico confirmed that 11 of the 15 hitmen arrested for their role in a series of cartel gunbattles in the state of Guerrero are from Guatemala and El Salvador. The other four are Mexican citizens.

Two Mexican mayors had their vehicles taken at gunpoint by cartel operators in the state of Sinaloa.

A former special forces police officer in the state of Tamaulipas switched sides and became a cell leader within the Gulf Cartel.

A group of gunmen shot and killed a journalist in Mexico just moments after he finished interviewing a local mayor.

A former border county prosecutor in Texas will spend more than three years in federal prison for having demanded money from a woman to dismiss misdemeanor charges against her son.

Authorities in Mexico City are investigating an alleged drug trafficking organization that used a tunnel to move drugs into one of their street-level storefronts. While drug traffickers favor the use of tunnels along the U.S.-Mexico border, its use in other parts of the country is rare.