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Osiel Cardenas Jr., the son of Gulf Cartel boss Osiel Cardenas Guillen, was sentenced to more than eight years in prison after he pleaded guilty to gun smuggling charges.

Ruben Oseguera Gonzalez, alias "El Menchito," the son of Jalisco cartel boss Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes, will reportedly plead guilty to drug conspiracy charges in a Washington, D.C. court.

A 21-year-old American man was among the five men shot dead by the Mexican army in the border city of Nuevo Laredo over the weekend.

An American suspect wanted for a 1991 murder was found in Guatemala working on a shrimp farm, according to Massachusetts state police.

Aureliano Guzman Loera, alias "El Guano," brother of Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, remains one of the most elusive criminals in the world as authorities in Mexico have yet to arrest him.

One Mexican politician revealed that he is acting as a middleman between Mexico's government and drug cartels prompting the rise of violence due to drug trafficking.

The government of Mexico has withdrawn arrest warrants regarding the missing 43 students in the Ayotzinapa case.

Five people were killed, and one was wounded in separate shooting incidents during a brutal 24 hours stretch in Mexico's state of Zacatecas plagued by Mexican drug cartels.

Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera is reportedly asking a court to have his life sentence overturned.

A Guanajuato bar attack in Mexico left 12 people dead when unidentified gunmen opened fire in a bar in the Mexican city of Irapuato.