The Zetas criminal organization evolved and expanded between 2001 to 2008, going from hired guns to a sprawling drug syndicate with tentacles reaching into the U.S. — and trained hit men to protect ...

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Handout photo released by Mexican Navy showing the alleged head leader of Mexican drug cartel "Los Zetas", Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, aka "El Z 40" in Mexico City on July 16, 2013. According to a ...

Gabriela was riding the Number 20 bus into Reynosa in north-eastern Mexico when the gang struck. Heavily armed men, faces hidden under ski masks, stormed on board, ordered its passengers off and swung ...

LAREDO — A federal wiretap helped police break open a case against a group that allegedly carried out hits for the Zetas drug cartel, a homicide detective testified Tuesday. Police had identified ...

Mexico’s navy said Monday that it had captured a crime boss whom it believes is responsible for a series of heinous mass murders in Mexico as well as the 2010 disappearance of David Hartley, a U.S.

VALLECILLO, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican government forces had bottled up a band of enemy fighters in this tiny village late last year, but feared they would escape into the dusty, rock-strewn hills. So ...

FILE - This file photo shows a mug shot, released on July 15, 2013 by Mexico's Interior Ministry, of Zetas drug cartel leader Miguel Angel Trevino Morales after his arrest in Mexico. (AP ...

MEXICO CITY — A U.S. indictment unsealed Wednesday in the District of Columbia claims that the leader of one of Mexico’s most violent gangs continued to run an offshoot group, the Northeast Cartel, ...