Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An 18-year-old hitman who works for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) sits for a photo in Morelia, Mexico. August 2023.

Mexico’s Security Minister Omar Garcia announced Thursday that the alleged leader of a criminal cell linked to the country’s ...

The new CJNG leader, Juan Carlos Valencia González, now carries a $25 million US bounty after predecessor "El Mencho's" death ...

The timeline highlights several key events, including CJNG’s entry into Michoacán and Tamaulipas in 2012, high-profile attacks against Mexican security forces in Jalisco in 2015—including the downing ...

Four videos attributed to one branch of the criminal network, released between December and this week, illuminate its apparent ambitions in Morelos, the State of Mexico, and the south of the capital ...

Tren de Aragua, MS-13 and the Sinaloa cartel are among the two gangs and six drug cartels the US has officially designated as foreign terrorist organizations, fulfilling a long-standing goal from US ...

Mexico’s underworld could experience far-reaching changes after the killing of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho,” the leader of the Jalisco Cartel and the country’s most-wanted criminal.

Ramón "R1" Álvarez Ayala, alleged CJNG leader accused of ordering Uruapan Mayor Manzo's assassination, was captured Thursday ...

Drug kingpin Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes may be dead, but the Jalisco cartel he ran for years will likely outlive him—thanks, in part, to the criminal group’s embrace of technology. “El ...

This patch for the Mencho Special Forces is used by the CJNG gunmen charged with the personal protection of the CJNG leader. The discovery of a previously unknown military-style patch identifying a ...