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A convoy of Mexican National Guard soldiers shot at two female political candidates in the state of Jalisco, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) claimed.

Gunmen from the Sinaloa Cartel torched several vehicles and blocked highways in the Mexican state of Zacatecas in response to a series of arrests by authorities.

A recent shooting at the Ciudad Juarez Airport that killed two men is directly connected to a turf war between human smuggling organizations. The organizations continue to fight for control of the arrival of migrants trying to make their way to the Texas border.

Authorities in Mexico are looking into the murder of three tourists on a remote beach in Baja California. The current theory points to a robbery gone wrong where the victims appear to have tried to resist.

An organization searching for mass graves throughout Mexico announced the discovery of a clandestine cartel crematorium in Mexico City. The find comes in an area often touted by the political elite as a shining example of effective police work.

A group of gunmen stormed the Spanish Embassy in Mexico City stealing a safe with an undisclosed amount of cash and checks. It remains unclear if the gunmen stole any sensitive documents as well.

Authorities are looking into the kidnapping of a high-ranking Catholic Church bishop in Mexico. The case has drawn widespread outrage since the cleric made headlines by trying to broker a peace of sorts between rival cartels who were fighting a fierce turf war in his community.

A Mexican federal judge has ordered the release of the brother of the supreme leader of Mexico’s most violent and dangerous drug criminal organization — Cartel Jalisco New Generation. The judge made the release citing irregularities in the paperwork and the arrest procedure.

A Mexican Senator from the Morena Party drew widespread condemnation after he organized the ritualistic killing of a chicken as an “offering to a rain god.” The incident took place in one of the courtyards of Mexico’s federal senate building.

Journalists grilled a Mexican presidential hopeful during her visit to the border state of  Tamaulipas for campaigning alongside a cartel-connected former governor. The former governor has a pending arrest warrant from the U.S. Department of Justice on money laundering charges.

Authorities in the border state of Chihuahua claimed the recent killing of eight men is tied to an organized crime turf war over human smuggling routes. Police found the bodies dumped on the side of a highway.

Unknown gunmen dumped the bodies of eight men along a highway in the Mexican border state of Chihuahua. The gory crime scene comes at a time when cartel violence continues to spread through most of Mexico while government officials claim security has improved nationwide.

The weekend murder of two political candidates in Mexico marks the current political cycle as one of the bloodiest in recent decades. Criminal organizations and their political allies appear to be flexing their muscles to eliminate opposition.

Mexico has been crushing Texas farmers and border communities by not releasing water from its dams as part of an international agreement signed in 1944. The ongoing issue, worsened by sustained droughts has pushed a Texas county to issue an emergency declaration.

Mexico’s top federal officials brazenly distorted crime statistics this week to claim that kidnappings had drastically decreased in March. That same month, Mexico had two separate cases of mass kidnappings where cartel gunmen forcibly took approximately 90 people in the states of Nuevo Leon and Sinaloa.

Texas authorities are investigating a shooting at the border where an Indiana National Guardsman allegedly shot at a man who was stabbing two migrants. After the shooting, the suspect fled back to Mexico while U.S. authorities treated the wounded migrants.

Mexican authorities report a shift in the production and distribution of fentanyl as the Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel is moving its operations closer to Texas.

Authorities in Mexico confirmed the arrest of 20 cartel gunmen, the killing of three others, and the wounding of two more following a series of shootouts in the coastal state of Tabasco. The clashes come after the region experienced a dramatic rise in cartel shootouts and targeted killings.

Authorities in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas are waiting for information to determine what happened to a local mayor after a group of villagers violently kidnapped him out of a police car. The villagers put him in another vehicle and fled the scene.

One of the top officials of a government-run university in the border state of Tamaulipas has resigned after a video widely shared on social media captured him sexually harassing a female media worker during a job interview.

One of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels reportedly turned to the use of chemical weapons in their ongoing struggle with rival criminal organizations. This region in Western Mexico is experiencing an escalating spike in violence where cartels have been manufacturing explosive devices, weaponized drones, armored vehicles, and mortars. At the same time, government officials help one faction or another for profit instead of bringing peace to the region.

A territorial push by the narco-terrorist group Cartel Jalisco New Generation led to a new wave of violence in the once-peaceful central Mexican state of Puebla. Severed human heads, threats, and executions sparked concern since the beginning of April.

Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ordered an end to all diplomatic relations with Ecuador soon after police forces from that country stormed the Mexican Embassy.

Government officials remain quiet about a new series of clandestine gravesites used by drug cartels that may hold as many as 170 bodies in the Mexican state of Colima. Local news outlets claim government officials refuse to discuss the findings, claiming electoral season restrictions.

The criminal terrorist organization known as Cartel Del Noreste, a faction of Los Zetas, is behind the mass kidnappings of victims in a Mexican border state, sources revealed to Breitbart Texas. However, instead of limiting itself to people who have ties or debts to trafficking, the cartel adopted the tactic of taking entire families hostage.

La organización criminal terrorista conocida como Cartel Del Noreste, facción de Los Zetas, está detrás de los secuestros masivos de víctimas en un estado fronterizo mexicano, fuentes revelaron a Breitbart Texas. Sin embargo, en lugar de limitarse a personas que

For several years, a cell of the Mexican Cartel Jalisco New Generation operated out of Houston, using the city as a hub in their distribution of synthetic drugs and cocaine.

Authorities in Mexico confirmed that eight bodies that floated onto a beach over the weekend those of Chinese migrants. The group is believed to have drowned while being moved further into the country after entering from Guatemala.

A federal judge sentenced a Chinese migrant who illegally crossed the border into Texas to 12 years in prison after authorities found several videos depicting child porn in his cell phone. One of the videos involved a girl who was under the age of five years.

A group of locals in Mexico lashed out against a woman and her two sons, who are believed to be responsible for the brutal murder of an eight-year-old girl. The Taxco, Guerrero, residents brutally beat the three murder suspects until authorities were able to move them back. One woman died from injuries sustained during the beating while her two sons are in critical condition.

More than 2,000 migrants are currently traveling through southern Mexico with the help of government officials and NGOs with the eventual goal of reaching the U.S. border. Calling themselves the Migrant Way of the Cross, the group is currently moving toward Mexico City. From there, the migrants plan to get buses and other means of transportation to eventually reach the U.S.-Mexico border.

A man who spent two years fighting for the Familia Michoacana Cartel claimed that he was initially kidnapped and forced to fight. He said he would be killed if he left. The claims point once more to the forced recruitment of gunmen by the various drug cartels that operate with impunity in different parts of Mexico.

A group of activists in western Mexico reported finding a cartel killing field with two ovens and 27 bags filled with human remains. The discovery came in the cartel-controlled state of Jalisco.

One of Mexico’s most violent cartels is running a series of call centers that target U.S. citizens in order to scam them out of millions. The scam points to the ongoing diversification by criminal organizations, which have been moving into more traditional schemes, including racketeering and fraud. In at least one case, this scam is linked to the murder of a U.S. citizen from Arizona.

Mexico’s President is using the migrant crisis, which he helped worsen, as a way to hold the U.S. hostage and force the Biden administration to legalize people in the United States, help some Latin American dictatorships, and pay billions in aid.

Politicians in the Mexican state of Sinaloa are trying to downplay the violent weekend kidnapping of more than 60 victims by cartel armies. The mass kidnapping points to an apparent rift within the Sinaloa Cartel.