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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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 -- [...]