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In a village in the hills of Guerrero State, residents ran from their homes as drones flew overhead, dropping makeshift bombs. For months, drug cartel operatives had been deploying the [...]

EL MOZOTE, El Salvador -- The village of El Mozote sits in the department of Morazán in the northeastern highlands of El Salvador near the border with Honduras, a huddle [...]

MEXICO CITY -- In 2008, the U.S. gun maker Colt, based in Hartford, Conn., produced a special edition .38 Super pistol that was engraved by a partner company with an [...]

After a half a century of failure, the U.S. and Mexico have an opportunity to find a new way forward on narcotics policy. MEXICO CITY -- On June 17, 1971, [...]

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has a chance to fight corruption at the top. But he needs to uphold the law on all sides to be effective. MEXICO CITY -- [...]

Lockdown exacerbated addiction in the U.S., while in Mexico, cartels dig into their turfs with charity and curfews, and put violent pressure on a vulnerable government. MEXICO CITY -- The [...]

The decision to release El Chapo's son is a reminder that Mexico needs a coherent strategy to fight violence. MEXICO CITY -- Parents hugged their children behind locked doors of [...]

MEXICO CITY -- As schools resumed classes last week, teachers, students and parents arrived at Rafael Veloz Elementary in Ciudad Juárez wearing white, holding hands and weeping. The school's head [...]

COATZACOALCOS, Mexico -- Angelica López crouched beside the train tracks that run through this sweltering city in southern Mexico, cradling her 2-year-old daughter, calling to her 7-year-old son not to [...]

MEXICO CITY -- After years of covering the drug war in Mexico, after looking down from a helicopter to see burning marijuana fields that soldiers had set aflame and after [...]

MEXICO CITY -- In the first months of this year, the word ''huachicolero'' -- once a rarely used term -- has been on the lips of people all around the [...]

MEXICO CITY -- People lined up for hours outside the federal court in Brooklyn last week for a chance to hear the jury instructions at the trial of Joaquín Guzmán [...]

MEXICO CITY -- When I was in Tijuana last month, a heavy rainstorm poured down on the Benito Juárez sports park, where more than 6,000 Central American migrants were crowded [...]

CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico -- The long line of men and women waded into the muddy waters of the Suchiate River. Holding onto a rope, they pulled themselves over the invisible [...]

ACTOPAN, Mexico -- In this arid farming town in central Mexico, a crowd packed the plaza under a punishing sun to hear the leftist presidential hopeful Andrés Manuel López Obrador [...]

MEXICO CITY -- Have you heard the ''news''? The Mexican presidential hopeful Ricardo Anaya wants to help the United States build a wall on the Rio Grande. And the campaign [...]

CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico -- On a sun-scorched prison patio in this sprawling border town, a 23-year-old inmate calmly explained to me how he trafficked hundreds of guns a year from [...]

MEXICO CITY -- In 1960s America, a cleaning woman who can't speak and lives next door to a gay artist falls in love with a humanoid sea creature held in [...]

MEXICO CITY -- When the earthquake rattled this mountain capital on Tuesday, a five-story office and apartment block round the corner from my home collapsed into a mountain of rubble, [...]

VERACRUZ, Mexico -- The Colinas de Santa Fe neighborhood on the outskirts of this port city looks like hundreds of other residential housing developments built across Mexico in recent decades. [...]

NOGALES, Mexico -- Crouched in the spiky terrain near this border city, a veteran smuggler known as Flaco points to the steel border fence and describes how he has taken [...]

MEXICO CITY -- A year ago, at least eight gunmen in military fatigues stormed the home of the crime reporter Anabel Flores near the city of Orizaba and dragged her [...]

MEXICO CITY -- In Mexico's so-called drug war, cartel gunmen have often used their violent power to demand money from innocent people. It's a heinous crime that scars communities and [...]

TOLUCA, Mexico -- In this industrial city near the Mexican capital, workers gather outside the gates of a sprawling Chrysler plant for a late shift assembling Dodge Journey S.U.V.s. It's [...]

Mexico City -- Mexico's president, Enrique Pe±a Nieto, had already had a terrible summer. July was the most murderous month in Mexico since he took office in 2012. Second-quarter results [...]

Mexico City -- It was a television executive's nightmare: Not only was someone threatening to sue over a TV series, but that person was reputedly the biggest drug trafficker on [...]

Mexico City -- WHEN the Mexican Army actually allows journalists to watch its soldiers in action, it's often to see them burning marijuana crops. It's strictly for show, but it's [...]

Mexico City -- IN 2011, when the Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain proposed building an electric fence on the Mexican border, it predictably caused shock waves south of the Rio [...]

Mexico City -- ON the morning of Jan. 2, a team of hired killers set off for the home of 33-year-old Gisela Mota, who only hours before had been sworn [...]

MEXICO CITY -- SEPT. 26 will mark a year since one of the most heinous crimes in modern Mexico, when police officers and drug cartel hit men are believed to [...]

IGUALA, Mexico -- STUDENT protesters in rural Mexico have long dealt with heavy-handed police officers. But on the black night of Sept. 26, students who attended a rural teachers' college [...]

After covering drug trafficking and violence in Latin America since 2000, I look through endless photos and videos and ask myself what would be its single most iconic imageCe -- [...]

WHENEVER I've interviewed Mexican cartel killers, the aspect that I've found most disturbing about them is that they appear to be sane. Even though they have described to me such [...]