Drug Cartels

Mexico's federal police are centralizing in ways that are both similar to and different from what's happening with local policing in the US.

Officers spent money during an undercover sting operation from a pool of funds that was never examined by federal investigators.

As President Obama hosts Mexican President Enrique Peu00f1a Nieto at the White House today, human rights groups want Obama to press the Mexican government on its failure to investigate …

Declassified files on migrant massacres reveal impunity and Mexican state complicity in human rights atrocities.

Author Dawn Paley offers a transformative view of the US war on drugs in the Western Hemisphere.

In a letter sent to Obama and the region's other presidents last year, over 145 civil society organizations called out US policies that “promote militarization to address organized crime.”

Chris Moore-Backman examines connections between the struggle for peace in Mexico and the struggle to end the racist system of mass incarceration in the United States.

The recent surge in unaccompanied, undocumented minors apprehended at the US-Mexico border draws attention to the poverty and violence ravaging Latin America and the lack of resources available to …

In southwest Mexico, Michoacan residents have taken up arms and formed a self-defense militia to protect themselves from violent drug cartels, succeeding where state and federal authorities have failed.

(Photo: Mark Karlin) The Official Story From the US State Department On March 29, 2012, William R. Brownfield, US assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of International Narcotics …