The drug war, the cartels, the violence, and the people caught in between , narco coverage that goes beyond body counts to the economics, politics, and human cost of Mexico's longest war.
Michoacán
Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla acknowledged that organized crime cells have embedded themselves inside municipal police forces across Michoacán and called for removing local police authority entirely through a constitutional reform.
Tijuana
Federal agents found a 265-meter tunnel with rails, lighting and an electric platform used to move drug shipments beneath the Tijuana-San Diego border. The same street has produced at least five narco tunnels in ten years.
Sinaloa
A governor, two senators, a vice-fiscal, and Culiacán's mayor all appeared before federal prosecutors on the same day after a sweeping US indictment alleged cartel infiltration at the highest levels of Sinaloa's government.
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.