The son of a Mexican drug lord, set to be sentenced himself on drug-trafficking charges in the U.S., is pleading clemency from authorities and saying his father's activities are mostly to blame for ...

The U.S. military’s growing footprint south of the border is making the outbreak of violence—and the deployment of more ...

Other experts pointed out that past efforts to deploy military might against drug traffickers have failed to slow the flow of ...

When the presidents of the United States and Mexico brought the two countries back from the edge of a trade war this month, each made commitments to the other ...

The US administration has taken the unusual step of officially designating eight drug cartels in Latin America as terrorist ...

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Thursday she will propose a constitutional reform aimed at further protecting ...

The Trump administration has designated eight Latin American crime organizations as “foreign terrorist organizations,” upping ...

Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office directing Secretary of State Marco Rubio to explore designating ...

The State Department has declared several Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations, with Department of Government ...

To better understand the implications of Trump’s early actions, we spoke with WOLA experts John Walsh and Stephanie Brewer.

VANDA FELBAB-BROWN is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Initiative on Nonstate Actors at the Brookings Institution. She ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has won praise for how she deals with Trump. How long can her success last?