Cartel Chronicles

A Mexican border state police officer tasked with restoring the peace in the southern part of Tamaulipas is reportedly operating as a commander of one of the most violent drug cartels in Mexico.

House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said he will "absolutely" be running in the 2022 midterm elections, denying growing reports and speculation of the longtime Democrat getting ready to retire.

Cartel gunmen used at least three car bombs and superior firepower to storm a prison in central Mexico to break out a regional leader and eight of his top associates.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) ambitions of keeping the Democrat majority in the House of Representatives past the midterm elections next year are dwindling as droves of vulnerable Democrats have announced they are leaving their current seat to either retire or seek a different

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A cartel boss reportedly killed a local man who recorded him at a party in western Mexico. The fugitive leader has managed to live with impunity in the state of Michoacán.

Two musicians sustained gunshot wounds during a performance in central Mexico. A motive remains unknown. The shooting comes days after officials canceled a town fair in another municipality after cartel gunmen attacked the musical entertainment and issued violent threats against the event

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A top commander with the Gulf Cartel in charge of the border city of Matamoros was relieved of duty due to recent violence and his perceived betrayal of a top ally.

Attacks by Los Zetas Cartel gunmen led to fatalities, abductions, and injured innocent bystanders in Nuevo Laredo, opposite Laredo, Texas. The wave of attacks sparked terror among locals.

Mexican military forces are looking into the alleged kidnapping of two U.S. citizens and their driver by a group of cartel gunmen south of the border with Texas.

A Peruvian family adopted what it thought was a pet dog, but after it began attacking neighbors' chickens, the family learned it was a fox.

Recent cartel attacks in the border state of Coahuila are believed to be direct responses to last month’s arrest of a cell leader from the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas.

Gunmen killed 11 Avocado farmworkers in the state of Michoacan, marking the latest massacre as rival cartels fight for control of the region. Six of the victims were minors.

A large group of cartel gunmen ambushed police in the border state of Coahuila, killing one officer and injuring six more. Authorities had increased their presence along highways before the incident.

Mexican soldiers rescued a kidnapping victim after a fierce shootout with cartel gunmen in the border city of Nuevo Laredo. Soldiers killed six from the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas.

Cartel gunmen shot and killed a Texas woman during a carjacking attempt along a highway that leads to a border city in Mexico. The shooting comes as drug cartels continue to fight for control of lucrative drug and human smuggling corridors into Texas.

A recent shootout at the largest airport in Mexico is tied to numerous layers of the country’s criminal underworld. The target of the assassination attempt, a wealthy restaurateur, has since gone missing.

A regional Gulf Cartel boss who operated for years in the shadows is responsible for recent shootouts in the Mexican border city of Matamoros.

A caravan of thousands of migrants, mostly Haitian and Central Americans, started making their way to Mexico City with the intent of reaching the U.S. border. Migrants clashed with immigration authorities and broke through blockades set in southern Mexico.

A large mob of unidentified gunmen stormed a crowded bazaar in northern Nigeria Sunday, killing at least 43 people and wounding many more.

Former Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan told Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on her Unmuted with Marsha podcast that President Joe Biden's open border policies make him "complicit" in cartel smuggling, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.