• August 27 2025
  Mexico

  The Mexican town putting Sheinbaum’s crackdown to the test

  State of Chiapas looks to quell armed groups in Pantelhó ahead of delayed election and US pressure over security

  
• August 25 2025
  Sinaloa drug cartel kingpin ‘El Mayo’ pleads guilty in US court

  One of Mexico’s most powerful crime lords faces a minimum sentence of life imprisonment

  
• August 25 2025
  The FT ViewThe editorial board

  The devastating global boom in narcotics

  Demand for harmful drugs must be curbed in order to squeeze powerful cartels

  
• August 11 2025
  Mexico

  US army will ‘never set foot’ in Mexican territory, vows Sheinbaum

  President hits back at reports that Washington could strike drug cartels in its southern neighbour

  
• July 11 2025
  ‘El Chapo’ scion pleads guilty to US drug trafficking charges

  Ovidio Guzmán, son of the Sinaloa Cartel’s co-founder, could produce trove of data on group’s ties to Mexican politicians

  
• July 10 2025
  El Chapo’s son expected to plead guilty to US criminal charges

  Ovidio Guzmán, whose father ran Mexico’s notorious Sinaloa Cartel, is due in a Chicago court on Friday

  
• May 29 2025
  Ireland

  Top Kinahan drug cartel sidekick extradited to Ireland from UAE

  Pressure rises on organisation’s boss Daniel Kinahan, who remains in Dubai, as Sean McGovern is charged in Dublin

  
• May 21 2025
  News in-depthMexico

  Mexico uncovers new ‘death camp’ as pressure on president rises

  Remains of 42 people found scattered on cartel ranch, highlighting crisis in which 120,000 people have disappeared

  
• May 20 2025
  Mexico City

  Mexican officials assassinated in rare attack in capital

  Senior advisers shot dead in Mexico City as president takes tougher approach to security

  
• April 23 2025
  OutlookChristine Murray

  The hit music accused of glorifying violence in Mexico

  ‘Narcocorridos’ that romanticise cartel figures face a ban in some parts of the country

  
• April 8 2025
  Ecuador

  Ecuador’s deadly crime wave threatens to bring down president

  Daniel Noboa set to face Luisa González in repeat of 2023 election, with security voters’ main concern

  
• February 28 2025
  Mexico

  Mexico extradites wanted drug lord to US in attempt to ward off tariffs

  Rafael Caro Quintero, sought since 1985 for murder of DEA agent, among 29 prisoners sent across border

  
• February 8 2025
  Mexico

  Mexico tries to tame ‘monster’ cartels to please Trump

  President Claudia Sheinbaum faces hurdles in fighting drug violence to placate US

  
• January 10 2025
  UK crime

  ‘Anybody can be a victim’: what do UK grooming gangs look like today?

  New data shows the shape of child sexual abuse after Elon Musk highlights decades-old scandal

  
• December 4 2024
  Mexico

  Mexico makes largest fentanyl bust as Trump’s tariff threat looms

  Drugs seizure comes after US president-elect says he will impose levies if flow of narcotics is not halted

  
• October 29 2024
  Belgium

  Over 100 sentenced for drug-related crimes in Belgium’s largest trial

  Decryption of Sky ECC messaging system leads to 119 convictions

  
• October 21 2024
  Ireland signs extradition treaty with UAE in effort to catch Kinahan cartel

  Daniel Kinahan is one of Europe’s most wanted criminals and prominent member of Dubai-based ‘super cartel’

  
• October 8 2024
  Claudia Sheinbaum

  Mexico’s new president announces security plan amid wave of violence

  Claudia Sheinbaum appoints former police chief to oversee strategy in a shift from approach of populist predecessor

  
• September 28 2024
  US arrests spark cartel ‘war’ in northern Mexico: ‘Like a narco pandemic’

  Sinaloa city rocked by killings and kidnappings in the aftermath of the capture of accused kingpin ‘El Mayo’

  
• September 18 2024
  Europol

  Global police dismantle encrypted messaging app used by criminals

  Ghost platform was used to distribute drugs and order hits by gangs in many countries

  
• September 9 2024
  Traffickers use Polish-flagged yachts to move drugs across Atlantic

  Legal loophole means law enforcers cannot get green light from Warsaw to search vessels at sea

  
• August 17 2024
  News in-depthMexico

  US arrest of cartel chief ‘El Mayo’ leaves Mexico rattled

  Dramatic apprehension of Sinaloa co-founder threatens to drive a new wedge between the neighbouring countries

  
• July 26 2024
  US arrests Sinaloa drug cartel chief and son of ‘El Chapo’

  Ismael Zambada García was known as ‘unquestioned senior leader’ of fentanyl trafficking syndicate

  
• June 27 2024
  Money laundering39 min

  Chinese brokers launder hundreds of millions for global crime groups | FT Film

  The FT investigates links between Chinese underground banking and global crime cartels

  
• June 27 2024
  FT Investigations

  The new money laundering network fuelling the fentanyl crisis

  US officials say Chinese organised crime groups are laundering much of the cash accumulated by Mexican drugs cartels