August 10 was, for many in Mexico, a quiet Sunday like any other. But in Sinaloa – a northwestern state facing the Pacific – it was no ordinary Sunday. That day, 17 homicides were committed: one every ...

In just a few weeks, the brutal turf war between two rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel — Los Chapitos, led by the sons of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, and La Mayiza, aligned with the son of Ismael ...

CULIACAN, Mexico (Reuters) - Authorities in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa on Thursday canceled national day celebrations and shut schools on the back of escalating violence stemming from ...

CULIACÁN, Mexico—Even Jesús Malverde, the patron saint of drug traffickers, has fallen victim to the vicious turf war ripping apart Mexico’s biggest producer and smuggler of fentanyl. Since the ...

Four decapitated bodies were found hanging from a bridge in the capital of western Mexico’s Sinaloa state on Monday, part of a surge of cartel violence that killed 20 people in less than a day, ...

MEXICO CITY, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Shootouts in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa have kindled fears that an intra-cartel war is about to break out in the wake of the arrest of legendary trafficker, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ricardo Mizael stepped out of his house in Mexico’s Sinaloa state earlier this year to buy feeding bottles for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. August 10 was, for many in Mexico, a quiet Sunday like any other. But in Sinaloa – a northwestern state facing the Pacific – it ...