The cartel’s hitmen also regularly fed humans to their tigers, in some instances these victims were alive.
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.
Those chaps aren’t wearing face masks because they’re conscientious, and want to reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19 to those around them.
If you’re El Chapo’s lawyers you know you’re up against it fighting his innocence, although they’re really reaching with their latest demand.
The Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico are fast becoming known as the go-to people if you need some superior tunnel building, as this latest discovery demonstrates
If you’re one of the world’s richest criminals and you want to know how to escape maximum security jail, this Mexican drug lord can show you how.
Ever wondered what a professional meth lab looks like? Well now you can find out as a British reporter takes a behind-the-scenes-tour with one of Mexico’s most lethal cartels.
Being a Mexican cartel kingpin pays really well. After a decade long manhunt, the elusive Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was detained in Mazatlán, Mexico. Rated as the number one supplier of illegal drugs in the US, he even made the Forbes billionaire list.