CRIME AND MURDER

At least 15 of Mexico's 32 states are in the red for organized crime, as they have the highest rates of homicide, kidnapping, extortion, drug trafficking, and car theft, the organization Semáforo Delictivo denounced on Thursday. In a statement, the NGO detailed that these entities are Zacatecas, Colima, Baja California, Morelos, Sonora, San Luis...

After constant tensions over the Cienfuegos case, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Mexican authorities held a high-level meeting to improve bilateral cooperation in the fight against drug trafficking cartels. "Both delegations agreed to establish as a bilateral priority to improve the mechanisms to share intelligence against...

Mexico reduced the number of poppy cultivated hectares by 23 percent, going from 28,000 in 2017-2018, to 21,500 in the 2018-2019 period, reports the Poppy Cultivation Monitoring Report in Mexico, prepared by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in collaboration with various federal agencies.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Thursday at a press conference that progress is being made in the investigation of the disappearance of the 43 students of the Normal Rural de Ayotzinapa, Guerrero state, and stressed that nothing and no one will prevent justice.

As a result of Mexico's progress in strengthening its measures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing since its evaluation of the country's framework, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) upgraded six out of seven recommendations that the country's financial authorities requested to be reclassified.

The United States announced Monday the creation of a task force against human smugglers in Mexico and Central America, the origin of most of the undocumented immigrants who have arrived in record numbers in recent months to the United States.

A man who was walking through the streets of Valle de Chalco carrying a human head inside a backpack was detained by elements of the Municipal Police, reported the local media. According to the first reports of the authorities, around 14:00 hours on Thursday, a man carrying a backpack was walking on Adolfo Lopez Mateos Avenue in the...