WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Ten major drug defendants were extradited from Mexico to the United States Wednesday, the U.S. Justice Department said.
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Journalists are increasingly among the casualties of the drug cartel wars in Mexico, with 28 killed and eight missing since 2000, a reporters' group says.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- The deadly drug gang turf wars that have claimed 4,000 lives so far this year in Mexico have spread to cities across the United States, officials say.
TIJUANA, Mexico, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- It could be years before U.S. officials get a chance to try reputed Mexican drug lord Eduardo Arellano Felix for breaking American laws, officials say.
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Mexico says it is cleaning house in its attorney general's office after five anti-drug officials were arrested for secretly working with drug cartels.
PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Improved cross-border cooperation in drug wars topped discussions between U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her counterpart in Mexico.
TIJUANA, Mexico, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Police in the Mexican state of Baja California report a weekend series of killings as a result of the continuing turf war between drug cartels.
TIJUANA, Mexico, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Five more bodies were found in Tijuana, Mexico, last weekend, adding to the growing death toll from a drug gang war raging in the border city, officials said.
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- More than a third of residents have thought about leaving Mexico because of the drug cartels, a survey released Monday indicates.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Federal agents have arrested 175 people in the United States and Italy in a crackdown on a Mexican drug cartel, the U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday.
CHICAGO, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- Mexican drug cartels, finding it harder to smuggle in marijuana, are growing more of their crops in the United States, officials say.
KEY WEST, Fla., Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Drug-smuggling semi-submersible vessels could also become a means of bringing weapons into the United States, counter-terrorism experts fear.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- Officials say U.S. automatic weapons, ammunition and other arms are pouring across the Mexican border to drug traffickers engaged in an internal war.
MEXICO CITY, July 28 (UPI) -- Health officials report drug addiction is a growing problem in Mexico since the government's crackdown on cartels and stepped-up U.S. border enforcement.
MEXICO CITY, June 25 (UPI) -- Mexico agreed Wednesday to extradite a leading drug kingpin to the United States where he faces trafficking charges, officials said.
