The Kingpin Act, established in the 1990s, allows for international sanctions and the prosecution of Americans aiding cartels. Analysts say the law broadens the scope to target individuals or groups ...

Donald Trump warned over plan to designate drug cartels as terrorists - Some said the move was simply ‘political theatre’ ...

President Donald Trump called for the State Department to label Mexican cartels as "foreign terrorist organizations," a move ...

Cartels have set off car bombs and beheaded victims. But designating them as terrorist groups could have unforeseen ...

a central industrial region that is also home to warring drug cartels. The Guanajuato state security department initially reported that eight gunmen had been killed, but later said two more bodies ...

President Trump has signed an executive order saying the United States will designate drug cartels as foreign terrorist ...

Schools and some businesses were closed and few people walked the streets of a town south of Mexico's capital Tuesday, hours ...

In the escalating war among rival factions of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, sons of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán are suspected of ...

Guanajuato, an industrial and farming hub, has for years had the highest number of homicides of any of Mexico's 32 states. The Jalisco carte l and the local Santa Rosa de Lima gang have been locked in ...

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday to designate drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, a ...

The order highlighted Mexican drug cartels and other Latin American ... an all-out war between rival factions of the Sinaloa cartel. Gunmen continue to leave mutilated bodies scattered across ...