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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 25:   Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard appeared during a Senate Committee on Intelligence Hearing on March 25, 2025 in Washington, DC.  Despite a decline in fentanyl overdose deaths, her team ranked smuggling and drug cartels as top threats to U.S. security.

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  • Politics

In new assessment, Trump team ranks fentanyl as a top threat to U.S.

Drug deaths are declining but the Trump administration's intelligence team has issued a new report describing street fentanyl as a top threat to the U.S.

March 25, 2025
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By:
  • Brian Mann
In this image released by the FBI shows the wanted posted for Rafael Caro Quintero.

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  • Latin America

Mexico sends drug lord Caro Quintero and 28 others to the U.S.

The unprecedented show of security cooperation comes as top Mexican officials are in Washington trying to head off the Trump administration's threat of imposing 25% tariffs on all Mexican imports.

February 28, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum gives her daily morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025.

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  • Latin America

Mexico warns the US not to 'invade our sovereignty' in fight against cartels

As the US officially designates six Mexican cartels as terrorist groups, Mexico's president warns the United States against any violation of its territory.

February 20, 2025
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By:
  • Eyder Peralta
President Trump signs executive actions  at the White House after his inauguration Monday. Among those orders is one labeling Mexican drug cartels terrorist organizations.

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  • National Security

Trump wants to label drug cartels terrorist organizations. Here's what that means in practice

The full implications of designating the cartels as terrorist organizations will depend, in large part, to how the administration follows through.

January 24, 2025
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By:
  • Ryan Lucas
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent checks pedestrians' documentation at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Ysidro, California. A growing number of experts believe the flow of deadly street fentanyl from Mexico into the U.S. has been disrupted, contributing to a drop in fatal overdoses.

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  • Health

The pipeline of deadly fentanyl into the U.S. may be drying up, experts say

Street fentanyl has long been viewed as unstoppable. Now many experts say the supply of the deadly synthetic opioid is suddenly drying up in many parts of the U.S. and fatal overdoses are dropping.

October 01, 2024
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  • Brian Mann
This image provided by the U.S. Department of State shows Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a historic leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel.

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  • National

U.S. authorities arrest top Sinaloa cartel leader and son of 'El Chapo'

Ismael Zambada, a historic leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, and Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of another cartel leader, were arrested by U.S. authorities in Texas, the U.S. Justice Department said.

July 25, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Attorney General Merrick Garland announces the Justice Department charged several leaders of the Sinaloa cartel, a transnational drug trafficking organization based in Sinaloa, Mexico, and several of its facilitators across the world.

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  • Law

U.S. charges El Chapo's sons and other Sinaloa cartel members in fentanyl trafficking

Members of the Mexican cartel are facing several charges involving fentanyl trafficking, weapons and money laundering in New York, Illinois and Washington, D.C.

April 14, 2023
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
A small line of cars waits to cross the Cordova Bridge of the Americas at the United States-Mexico border in 2020. On March 10, Texan officials advised against spring break travel to Mexico, citing the dangers of violent crime.

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  • Latin America

Texas officials have told residents Mexico is too dangerous to visit for spring break

The advisory follows the kidnapping of four Americans earlier this month in the city of Matamoros. The state's Department of Public Safety said "cartel activity" made trips to Mexico a "serious risk."

March 12, 2023
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  • Kaitlyn Radde
Matamoros, Mexico, is a stronghold for various criminal organizations, particularly the Gulf Cartel. U.S. and Mexican officials say four U.S. citizens were abducted at gunpoint in the city on Friday.

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  • Latin America

The U.S. and Mexico are working together to find 4 Americans who were kidnapped

The abduction took place on the streets of Matamoros, Mexico. The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for the return of the Americans and the arrests of those involved.

March 06, 2023
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Journalist and activist Gildo Garza, right, reads the names of murdered journalists at a demonstration outside the federal attorney general's office in Mexico City.

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  • World

Mexico's Journalists Speak Truth To Power, And Lose Their Lives For It

A government agency protects 1,500 journalists and human rights activists, but it is strapped for resources and its record is mixed.

September 04, 2021
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By:
  • James Fredrick
Court documents state that Emma Coronel Aispuro (center) controlled a vast fortune earned from the sale of multi-ton cocaine, heroin and marijuana shipments.

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  • Law

El Chapo's Wife Pleads Guilty To Helping Run The Global Drug Cartel

Emma Coronel Aispuro faced charges of conspiring to distribute drugs into the U.S. from Mexico and laundering the profits. Investigators say she helped stage her husband's tunnel escape from prison.

June 10, 2021
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  • Vanessa Romo
Pedestrians walk past Mexico's Consulate General in Los Angeles in October, shortly after ex-Mexican Defense Secretary Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda's arrest at Los Angeles International Airport at the DEA's request. Charges were later dropped.

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  • National Security

U.S.-Mexico Efforts Targeting Drug Cartels Have Unraveled, Top DEA Official Says

A diplomatic row has frozen U.S.-Mexican efforts to target drug cartels. American officials say illicit fentanyl from labs in Mexico is driving a surge in overdose deaths.

May 03, 2021
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By:
  • Brian Mann

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