A fugitive leader of the ruthless Mexican cartel that was blamed for killing two kidnapped American tourists last year has been captured in a high-end shopping mall. José Alberto García Vilano ...

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The Gulf Cartel controls much of the area near where the fighting took place Wednesday, but there have been ongoing battles between Gulf Cartel factions for control of smuggling routes along the ...

Texan sheriffs have released videos of a shootout involving heavy firepower that occurred less than a mile from the town of Donna.

The United States has released Osiel Cardenas Guillen, former leader of the Gulf Cartel and founder of the Zetas, an armed ...

Video: Five people are arrested over deadly kidnapping of Americans in Mexico after cartel turned in its own gang members Kirby weighs in on Mexico developments after it was revealed two of four ...

Reports from the Mexican border city of Matamoros say a splinter group of the Gulf Cartel, called the Scorpions Group, has apologised for kidnapping four US citizens last week, killing two of them ...

It was signed by the "Scorpions Group", a splinter faction of the powerful Gulf Cartel. The letter points to the strange, misplaced sense of civic duty which many Mexican cartels claim to possess.

The Zetas started as a paramilitary wing of the Gulf Cartel before breaking off and becoming arguably the most ruthless criminal organization Mexico had ever known. They were later indicted in the ...

"We can't get across because we need to wait, but we also can't leave because we could get kidnapped or forced by" members of the Gulf Cartel "to do things we don't want to do." Dominic lives in ...

Video footage captured by a Texas Department of Public Safety surveillance aircraft showed a gun battle between Gulf Cartel factions Wednesday. "They don't use typical firearms or rifles.