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Mexico's president has taken the unusual step of issuing a public appeal to drug cartels not to fight each other, following last week's detention of top Mexican drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López

US law enforcement officials arrested two of Mexico’s most wanted kingpins in El Paso, Texas, on July 25 without firing a shot. The two men, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán, helped lead arguably the world’s most powerful drug-trafficking organisation: the Sinaloa cartel. The arrest was one of the…

Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada has eluded the reach of U.S. enforcement for decades as the top leader and co-founder of Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel

Two top leaders of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel were arrested by US agents in Texas during a dramatic operation and without the involvment of Mexican authorities.

Hundreds of firefighters from as far afield as Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and South Africa are being deployed to western Canada to help fight wildfires while a major fire has damaged a third of the structures in the picturesque town of Jasper.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has thanked Guatemala for helping nearly 600 Mexicans who have crossed into Guatemala to escape drug cartel violence

US announces arrest of two leaders of organised crime group as Mexican authorities say they were in the dark

Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and Joaquín "El Guero" Guzmán, two of the most wanted men in the world, were arrested in Texas this week. Analysts say the effects on the Presidential campaign could benefit Kamala Harris and dismantle some of Donald Trump's rhetoric against Mexico.

A U.S. law enforcement official says a powerful Mexican drug cartel leader who has eluded authorities for decades was duped into flying into the U.S., where he was arrested in Texas alongside a son of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán