The Latest Breaking News from Sinaloa

LA clothing importer admits to skirting $6.4 million in customs tariffs

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County clothing brand has agreed to plead guilty to submitting fake customs forms to skirt almost $6.4 million in tariffs and to doing business with a woman who has ties to the Sinaloa drug cartel, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

Los Angeles Times · Sep 21, 2022

3rd volunteer grave search activist killed in Mexico

Yet another mother searching for her disappeared son has been killed in northern Mexico

The Independent UK · Aug 31, 2022

Authorities say body found in canal is missing Mexican journalist

The governor of Sinaloa, Mexico, on Saturday said a body found earlier this week was of missing radio announcer Candida Cristal Vazquez, local media reported.

Reuters · Aug 27, 2022

Mexican Navy says 14 people dead after Black Hawk helicopter crash

Mexico's Navy said on Friday that 14 people were killed and another person was injured after a Black Hawk military helicopter crashed in the northern state of Sinaloa.

Reuters · Jul 15, 2022

Too big to jail: The story of HSBC and the Mexican drug cartel

If you sell a gram of cocaine on the street you’re going to jail. If you’re complicit in laundering billions of dollars for a drug cartel, your organisation may just pay a fine. Chris Blackhurst recounts the greatest banking scandal in history

The Independent UK · Jun 13, 2022

Mexican officials say a notorious cartel killed 2 Tijuana journalists. Critics aren’t buying it

TIJUANA, Mexico — Journalists, academics and law enforcement officials in Mexico are not convinced that the Arellano-Félix cartel was behind the January slayings of two prominent Tijuana journalists, as the government claims.

Tribune News Service · May 19, 2022

2 journalists killed in Mexico; 10th and 11th of the year

Mexican state prosecutors say two journalists have been shot to death in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz

The Independent UK · May 10, 2022

Ninth journalist killed in Mexico this year as foreign criticism mounts

A Mexican journalist was found dead in the northwestern state of Sinaloa on Thursday, authorities said, marking the ninth death of a media worker in a unprecedentedly bloody year for the country which has drawn international scrutiny.

Reuters · May 5, 2022

SHELL-“No puedes ignorar lo que hay en tu estado”. Entrevista con Rubén Rocha Moya, gobernador de Sinaloa

Sinaloa

The Independent UK · Apr 15, 2022

Sinaloa governor on leading a region under the thumb of drug cartels: ‘We handle it’

EXCLUSIVE: In the second part of ‘Narcomundo’, a special investigation by Independent en Español, José Luis Montenegro speaks to the governor of Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya, and sheds light on how the power of drug trafficking has broken the strength of the Mexican state

The Independent UK · Apr 15, 2022