The entire police force in Mexico's port city of Veracruz was dissolved on Wednesday, as the national army and navy took over security responsibilities. The disbanding of 800 police officers and 300 administrative employees is part of an effort to root out police...

Mexican soldiers exchanged gunfire with suspected drug cartel members just south of the Texas border on Saturday, ending in the death of 11 gunmen and one injured soldier. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, the gunfight began when Mexican soldiers on patrol...

In order to fight Mexico's criminal drug cartels, Drug Enforcement Administration officials are themselves becoming criminals. Millions of dollars of drug proceeds have been laundered or smuggled by undercover American narcotics agents in an attempt to gain...

Mexico's over-reliance on harsh law enforcement and militaristic approaches to the drug war has resulted in a dramatic increase in violence and an unaccountable police and military force that is responsible for widespread human rights violations. Human Rights Watch...

Hundreds of Mexican soldiers and federal agents have raided casinos in the city of Monterrey, days after an arson attack on a gambling house killed 52 people in a country in which massacres and beheadings at the hands of drugs gangs are all too common. Five suspected...

Gunmen burst into a casino in Monterrey, Mexico, Thursday night, spraying the carpets with gasoline and setting it on fire. 53 were killed and the death toll is expect to rise. Drug cartels in Mexico's violence-plagued north often threaten business owners for...