The Mexican villagers claim they “basically had no choice but to die fighting, or die from hunger.”
Authorities in Belgium are struggling to cope with a rising backlog of cocaine, dubbed “cocaine-berg”, being stored at secret depots.
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.
Gunmen in Mexican special forces uniforms broke a cartel boss out of a prison located just miles from the American border.
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 the 800 000 residents of Culiacán, a city in northwestern Mexico, violence is an almost daily part of their lives.
After the Mexican government unleashed new measures to crack down on cartels and their drug trade, they started looking to alternative sources for income.
See all those parcels? That’s cocaine, seized from a Mexican drug cartel. That image is just the tip of the iceberg for a country run by fear.