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The assassination was the latest episode of increasing drug-driven violence in Tamaulipas State, near the Gulf of Mexico.

With the pace of killings rising, President Felipe Calderón set up high-level forums in an effort to show that the Mexican government was willing to engage its critics and listen to suggestions.

The coordinated raid that led to the death of Ignacio Coronel Villarreal on Thursday may make way for a competing cartel.

A Mexican law enforcement official who worked with American authorities was charged with sharing confidential information with drug traffickers and arranging the arrests of their rivals.

A Mexican law enforcement official who worked with American authorities was charged with sharing confidential information with drug traffickers and arranging the arrests of their rivals.

Venezuela handed over three major drug-trafficking suspects to the United States authorities on Tuesday, including the suspected boss of Colombia’s Norte del Valle cartel, Carlos Alberto Renteria

Two men were arrested and accused of participating in an ambush that killed 12 federal police officers in one of the worst drug-cartel attacks on Mexican security forces, the authorities said.

Mexico announced tough restrictions on dollar cash transactions in an attempt to fight money laundering that is fueling an increasingly bloody drug war.