The powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel, or CJNG, is led by a notorious kingpin known as El Mencho. With rumours circulating that he’s dead, the cartel faces a battle for survival.
Brazil’s deadly drug wars have actually been made worse by President Jair Bolsonaro and his attempts to curb the violence by throwing more guns into the mix.
Marixa Lemus has been dubbed Guatemala’s female ‘El Chapo’. She is also sometimes referred to as “La Patrona” – the female boss.
Dairo Antonio Usuga David, also known as ‘Otoniel’, is Colombia’s most-wanted drug trafficker. Sorry, was, because he’s now been detained by local security forces after escaping arrest for more than a decade.
Gunmen in Mexican special forces uniforms broke a cartel boss out of a prison located just miles from the American border.
Tourists on a Cancun beach, as well as vendors, came under attack from gunmen who arrived via jet ski and opened fire.
The fighting between cartels for control over certain territories has always been brutal, but in recent years, things have gone into a downward spiral of increasing violence.
For a long time, the war on drugs has relied on the ‘kingpin strategy’ – take out the big guns, and a syndicate will fall apart. That’s proving to be a flawed approach.
For the 800 000 residents of Culiacán, a city in northwestern Mexico, violence is an almost daily part of their lives.
Mexican authorities tried to arrest El Chapo’s son, Ovidio Guzmán, but were forced to release him when the cartel launched an epic gun battle in the streets.
The new season of ‘Narcos’, set in Mexico, focusses on the founding father of Mexican narcotraffic: Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo.
Watch a man’s fast food lunch go rapidly downhill as a brazen gunman attempts to kill him in broad daylight. Not for the faint-hearted.
Most wanted drug kingpin captured. Murdoch’s new NY pad costs over R600 million. It’s all over for Piers Morgan. Ukraine’s president flees. New smartphone will cost under R300. Sean Parker hardly checks his Facebook messages.