Crime and security in Mexico — cartels, corruption, kidnappings, and the 95% impunity rate. The reality behind the headlines, reported without hysteria.
Crime
A warehouse manager in Aguascalientes faked 18,395 bottle sales using phantom client tickets, stole $36K in wine and liquor, and got caught only when auditors noticed the books didn’t match the barrels. Family helped.
Cartels
Mexico's homicides are down 40% — but don't pop the champagne. Cartels have mutated from drug traffickers into quasi-feudal tax collectors, extorting avocado farmers and hijacking cargo routes. That shadow tax? You're paying it at the grocery store.
Crime
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán — the cartel boss who tunneled out of two prisons — is now writing handwritten letters from ADX Florence, America's most secure prison, begging a federal judge for fair treatment. His words reveal a man who built tunnels to freedom now trapped in concrete.
Crime
A Hungarian drug trafficker on Interpol's most-wanted list thought Cancún's chaos would hide him forever. He was wrong. The full story of how European intelligence, Mexican federal forces, and a Red Notice tracked János N. across an ocean and into a handcuff on a Caribbean street.
Crime
On Friday evening, Belizean special forces intercepted a cocaine-laden Cessna at a Mennonite settlement just miles from Quintana Roo's border. The haul: 551 kilograms. The pilots: Mexican. The implications for Mexico's Caribbean coast? Enormous.
Crime
TV profilers solve crimes in 42 minutes. Real ones sometimes don’t solve them at all. FBI profilers aren’t psychic detectives—they’re data analysts who narrow the search. And when they’re wrong, the consequences are lethal.
Crime
The morning ritual isn't one of mourning — it's bureaucracy. A phone call. Municipal police arrive, take one look, realize this might not be their case. Maybe the dead tourist is American. Maybe there's evidence of organized crime. And just like that, the case begins its journey.
Crime
On Mexico’s highways, every flashing light at a checkpoint is a gamble—guardian of law or predator in disguise—revealing a nation where security and abuse share the same lane.
Crime
In a Brooklyn courtroom, "El Mayo" Zambada admitted to 50 years of drug trafficking and corruption, confessing he paid off Mexican police, military, and politicians—then vanished into silence.
Crime
Quintana Roo's week: drone-equipped police, sargassum as a regulated resource, a teetering Telmex pole, and CFE workers detained over "suspicious vibes" amid digital crime reporting and looming storms.
Crime
Ex-Tabasco security chief linked to "La Barredora" cartel is fugitive. Authorities busted 6 Sinaloa meth labs and found explosives. Juárez crematorium held 386 bodies; owner charged with improper handling. Top stolen cars: Nissan NP300, Versa, Aveo.
Yucatan
Ruthless criminal groups and "huachicoleros," including cartels, are exploiting Pemex pipelines in southeastern Mexico, near the Mayan Train route, through widespread fuel theft, creating a dangerous and costly black market operation.