MEXICO CITY – A captured drug trafficker said Wednesday that the boss of one of Mexico's fiercest cartels is physically and emotionally drained and that the leader's recent offer to disband the gang ...

If the banners hanging from bridges in the western state of Michoacán this week are to be believed, Mexico’s horrific drug war has turned a hopeful corner. The signs declared that one of Mexico’s most ...

Recent arrests of alleged kidnappers in Guerrero and arms traffickers in the State of Mexico both lead back to the Familia Michoacana, suggesting the once powerful cartel may still be stronger than is ...

Reporting from Mexico City — Mexican authorities said Friday that they believe a top leader of the violent La Familia cartel was killed during two days of pitched fighting in the home state of ...

Reporting from Mexico City — Mexican authorities Tuesday said they had arrested a regional boss of La Familia drug gang, which dominates the western state of Michoacan with violence and a cult-like ...

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Mexico arrested Familia head Jose de Jesus Mendez, alias ‘El Chango,’ in another blow to the already reeling criminal group, chalking up a result for the Federal Police. Mendez was arrested at a ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Known as "The Craziest One," he indoctrinated gang members in a pseudo-Christian ideology, and purportedly wrote a book of moral values for his cult-like cartel — all the while ...

In Mexico, the government's three-year war against drug cartels has claimed more than 11,000 lives, snared thousands of alleged criminals and brought down scores of politicians. One of the newer drug ...

The eccentric leader of the notorious La Familia drug cartel was killed in a shootout during two days of fighting between federal police and gunmen that terrified civilians across a western Mexican ...

ZAMORA, MEXICO -- This week, Mexican military soldiers and federal police raided La Gran Familia, (The Great Family), a group home serving poor children, most of them abandoned or homeless. When ...

MEXICO CITYMEXICO CITY — A captured drug trafficker said Wednesday that the boss of one of Mexico’s fiercest cartels is physically and emotionally drained and that the leader’s recent offer to disband ...