The Drug Enforcement Administration on Monday announced the launch of Gatekeeper, a binational collaboration to identify Mexican cartel leaders in smuggling corridors along the Southwest border.

Mexico sent 26 alleged cartel figures to face justice in the United States because the Trump administration requested them and Mexico did not want them to continue running their illicit businesses from Mexican prisons,

The Trump administration secures the extradition of 26 Mexican cartel figures, including a Los Cuinis leader and a suspect in 2008 U.S. deputy murder case.

After the capture of a Sinaloa Cartel boss, social media videos illustrate record levels of violence as Trump eyes military action in the region.

Mexico is sending 26 high-ranking cartel figures to the United States in the latest major deal with the Trump administration

It came amid rising pressure from President Donald Trump on Mexico to dismantle the country's powerful drug organizations.

Cartel leader Damaso Lopez Serrano, better known as "El Mini Lic," reportedly hired a hacker to track down YouTuber Camilo Ochoa, killed during the weekend in Mexico

A car accident, a series of secret wiretaps, a shootout with police and a drug bust eventually led federal investigators back to cartel leaders in Mexico.

Mexico's security chief Omar García Harfuch and US Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the deal in separate statements.

Ernesto Barajas was gunned down in the city of Zapopan, police said. Another man died in the attack and a woman was injured.