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A murky CIA operation is the latest headache for the Mexican leader, whose faces internal criticism from her leftist base.

As the U.S. targets corrupt Mexican officials who aided the imprisoned drug lord’s clan, a civil war rages for control of the Sinaloa cartel.

Gerardo Mérida, a retired Mexican army general who served as public security secretary in northwestern Sinaloa state, was detained in a case that has rocked diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Mexico.

The Trump administration is planning to bring criminal charges against the 94-year-old brother of Fidel Castro, escalating its pressure campaign on the island nation.

Read this exciting story from The Wall Street Journal May 16, 2026 issue. Raúl Castro holds no formal office in Cuba’s government and is rarely seen in public.

Rising pressure from the Trump administration stirs thoughts of transformation.

Washington is trying to pressure Havana into submission, but the Communist government has important differences from Caracas.

The communist island once had a vaunted military, but it’s now “a shell of a shell of what it used to be.”

Now cornered by the U.S. and on the brink of collapse, the Communist island once projected power, backing insurgent groups

Grammy award winner Maykel “Osorbo” Castillo and performance artist Luis Manuel Otero have been jailed since mass protests in 2021.