Drug Cartels

‘Avoid travelling to Mexico’: Texas officials warn Americans not to cross border as its ‘too dangerous’

The advisory comes a week after four Americans were kidnapped shortly after crossing the Mexican border. Citizens who still decide to go to Mexico for spring break are encouraged to register their names with an embassy or consulate before they travel

'Won't allow foreign govt to intervene': Mexico president rules out letting US troops fight cartels

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador spoke a day after Republican Senators Roger Marshall and Rick Scott introduced a bill in the US Congress seeking to designate Mexican drug cartels as 'foreign terrorist organizations'

Latin American cocaine cartels bring violence to Europe's big cities

Europe has become one of the most lucrative markets for the big drug cartels, who have not hesitated about using the corruption and extreme violence that has served them so well in South America

US offers up to $5 million rewards to help capture El Chapo-linked Mexican druglords

The four drug cartel kingpins operate under the umbrella of the federation of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of Mexico's most notorious drug trafficking groups

Lok Sabha polls: UP's Ghazipur is nothing like it was in 1970s, but Manoj Sinha has emerged as 2019's Sarjoo Pandey

Union communication minister Manoj Sinha fondly remembers communist leader Sarjoo Pandey (1919-89), arguably the tallest mass leader eastern Uttar Pradesh ever produced

Ahead of Mexico General Election, 133 local-level politicians murdered in 10 months, says study by consulting firm

A total of 133 local-level politicians have been killed in Mexico before the general elections according to the consulting firm Etellekt

Mexican mayor Ambrosio Soto shot to death; second such assassination in 2 days

Ambrosio Soto, the mayor of a town in one of Mexico's most violent drug corridors was shot to death, the second mayor killed in Mexico in two days

NIA officer murder: Leave no stone unturned in the investigation, including the terror angle

The brutal assassination of NIA deputy superintendent of police, Tanzil Ahmad on Saturday at his hometown of Bijnore is the most shocking case of the murder of a member of the establishment in recent times

Biggest ever meth drug bust: Bangladesh police make record $10.5 million

Bangladesh has seized 2.8 million methamphetamine tablets worth an estimated $10.5 million in the country's biggest ever seizure of the drug, as it struggles to stem its surging popularity

How Colombian drug dealers used HSBC to launder money

It looked like a bust of another nexus of drug traffickers and money launderers, with mainly small-time operatives paying the price for their crimes.