Officials believe cartels sometimes execute rival drug dealers as well as patients who refuse to join their ranks.

The election to overhaul Mexico’s courts could result in a justice system more beholden to the nation’s dominant party, Morena.

Mexico is about to join the club. Following a controversial constitutional change that the outgoing president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, rammed through Congress in September, Mexicans are expected to go to the polls on Sunday and deliver an unprecedented vote to replace half the federal bench — 881 federal judges in all,

Authorities did not say why the musicians from the band Grupo Fugitivo were slain, and did not deny reports by local media that the bodies had been burned.

Despite low turnout of around 13 per cent, Mexico's unique election for judges aims to combat crime and corruption in the justice system.

Once a month, retiree Abbey Carpenter leads volunteers through a field of dunes near the border, searching for the remains of migrants. She has located 27 sites in southern New Mexico in under two years, artefacts of a wave of migration that has ebbed to a trickle.

A storm is brewing in U.S.–Mexico relations, and its epicenter is the newly appointed U.S. ambassador: Ronald Johnson, a former Green Beret and CIA

Mexican attorney Hector Paez Garcia pleads guilty to laundering $52 million for the Sinaloa Cartel, as part of a U.S. operation against drug money operations.