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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican military says it has detained the principle lieutenant in the Arellano Felix cartel that controlled drug trafficking in Tijuana for two decades. Army spokesman Col. Ricardo Trevilla says 34-year-old Juan Francisco Sillas Rocha was captured in the border city...

In a wide-ranging discussion Friday with President Barack Obama's top science advisors, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra warned of the dangers of open data access and complained of "an IT cartel" of vendors. More...

(CNN) -- If you are a Mexican cartel kingpin -- or even a second-tier player -- this is what you can expect if you are captured: You will be transported inside an armored federal police vehicle the size of a camper to an auditorium and sit there while a high-ranking official recites for...

MEXICO CITY – Federal police have arrested a military deserter believed to have joined the Zetas drug cartel and participated in the massacre of 72 migrants near the U.S. border. A government anti-drug spokesman says Edgar Huerta was arrested in the northern state of Zacatecas with his...

(CNN) -- Mexican authorities on Thursday are following leads on a grisly find from the night before -- 21 bodies, some with signs of torture -- strewn in five separate locations on the outskirts of Morelia, Mexico. Some of the bodies had signs of torture, and other bodies not any, Michoacan...

Authorities say Antonio Ezequiel Cardenas Guillan ran one of Mexico's top drug-trafficking organizations. A top leader of the Gulf drug cartel was killed during a two-hour gun battle with Mexican security forces in the border city of Matamoros, authorities said. Antonio Ezequiel Cardenas...

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – Police arrested a man Tuesday who they say headed the operations of the "La Familia" drug cartel in the western state of Michoacan. Abel Valadez Oribe, 32, was reportedly heading for a cockfight when police stopped his car and arrested him, authorities said. They said...

MEXICO CITY – Mexico's most-wanted drug lord has an increasingly less-powerful role in his cartel, the country's Attorney General said Friday. Eduardo Medina-Mora said Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman remains an emblematic figure in the Sinaloa Cartel but he's not as involved in day-to-day drug...

Mexico: Guatemalan ex-soldier in cartel pay killed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities say a former Guatemalan soldier who allegedly procured weapons for a drug cartel was killed in a gunfight with federal police...

Mexican police attacked by suspected cartel hitmen Buzz Up Send Email IM Share Delicious Digg Facebook Fark Newsvine Reddit StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo! Bookmarks Print Sun Mar 1, 6:59 pm ET AP – A plainclothes policeman guards the scene after unknown gunmen opened fire on a...