Author: Cartel Chronicles

The Gulf Cartel continues to implement a strategy where they board passenger buses to search for migrants traveling north to the border city of Reynosa. The interceptions take place on the outskirts of the city or at the bus station. The migrants tryin…

Cartel gunmen have turned a 10-mile stretch of highway in the Mexican border city of Reynosa into a dumping ground for the bodies. So far this year, gunmen have dumped, buried, or burned 15 victims that have been found by authorities.

A Mexican priest publicly denounced Colombian hitmen working for local cartels after they threatened his parish. The complaints in the coastal state Jalisco come weeks after gunmen killed two priests in the northern state of Chihuahua.

Mexican authorities seized an airplane flown from South America with bundles of cocaine onboard. The plane landed in a southern jungle area.

Mexican immigration officers have a long history of demanding bribes at international airports and ports of entry in exchange for bypassing laws and processes that would have kept prohibited persons from entering the country.

Police in Mexico City made a historic bust when they seized 3,700 pounds of cocaine hidden in two tractor-trailers. The seizure has been hailed by authorities as the largest of its kind nationally in the last 12 years. The illegal cargo featured Tesla …

Mexico’s military arrested 37 cartel gunmen and seized a large cache of weapons and ammunition without a single shot fired this week.

A group of burglars in a Mexican border state tried to kill a woman using firebombs as payback for her reporting the crime to the police and for having identified them on social media. After the attack, authorities released one of the burglars they had…

Administrators in one Mexican city fired 87 police officers over the past month due to incidents of theft, extortion, and abuse in their official capacities.

Authorities in Central Mexico arrested three of their own investigators and are searching for more officials tied to a kidnapping and extortion operation. At least nine arrest warrants have been obtained in connection with the case over the past weekend.