The State Department announced Monday that a former high-ranking member of the Los Zetas cartel has been sentenced to more than 31 years in federal prison for his role as a plaza boss for the cartel ...

MEXICO CITY - Three Mexican cartels have joined forces to destroy a gang of hit men that has grown into a feared drug-trafficking outfit with reach into Central America, Mexican and U.S. officials ...

The Mexican Navy claims to have killed the founder and leader of the Zetas drug cartel: Heriberto Lazcano, known El Lazca or "The Executioner." They key word here is "think" as authorities are in the ...

MEXICO CITY - The army charged Monday that the top leaders of the hyper-violent Zetas drug cartel ordered underlings to leave 49 mutilated bodies in a northern Mexico town square, then had banners ...

After a shoot-out with Mexican authorities in 2003, Cardenas Guillen, whose brothers were also involved in the Gulf Cartel, ...