The Latest Breaking News from the Gulf Cartel

Many of the municipalities hit the hardest by devastating floods lie within territories where violent clashes are common, as rival criminal groups continue fighting in the region.

Intelligence agencies, along with federal, military and civil authorities, are currently investigating the alleged involvement of police chiefs and local public officials with criminal groups in the Mexican state of Veracruz.

The United States government is formally designating eight Latin American organized crime groups that also operate in the U_S_ to be “foreign terrorist organizations.”

Ex-Gulf Cartel chief Osiel Cardenas has been taken into custody in Mexico on drug, organized crime and money-laundering charges

The cartel "makes millions" in the illicit trade of red snapper and sharks caught in U.S. waters, per official reports.

Cardenas was imprisoned for 14 years in the U.S. He faces pending charges in Mexico

Cardenas also created the Zetas, an armed organization that played a key role in violent turf wars that marked Mexico over the past years

Threats to deploy U.S. troops to Mexico ignore an appalling reality that has already been a disaster for both nations.

A video widely shared on social media in late May shows a man, wearing a bulletproof vest marked with the logo of a Mexican cartel, carrying a weapon that looks like an AT4 anti-tank rocket launcher. The Russian ambassador to Mexico joined in the debate about the video on Twitter,…