Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on March 9 rejected calls by some U.S. lawmakers advocating for military action in Mexico against drug cartels. (Video: Mexican Government TV) ...

The Narco Threat to Mexican Democracy AMLO’s attack on the country’s electoral authority is a political gift to the cartels.

For AMLO, theoretically, such a Faustian bargain could be justified as a way to curtail drug violence and transform the narcos, themselves victims of an unjust society.

AMLO took office with plans to address the root causes of drug use and violence. But he has since embraced his predecessors’ reliance on the military to tackle drug-related crime and violence.

Politics Drug Traffickers Said They Backed an Early Campaign of Mexico’s President. But U.S. Agents Were Done Investigating. Documents and interviews show that Mexican traffickers extradited to ...

Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he'd consider convicted kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's plea to return home due to the "cruel" conditions in his US prison.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken affirmed on Wednesday that Mexican drug cartels control parts of the country, not the Mexican government, in response to questions.

In November 2020, AMLO pressured the US to release former Defense Minister Salvador Cienfuegos, despite clear evidence that he was being paid to protect and directly facilitate drug shipments.

America can no longer tolerate narco-terrorist cartels. Operating from havens in Mexico, their production of deadly drugs on an industrial scale is flooding our country with this poison. The time ...

It is AMLO’s political success, rather than his troubles controlling the drug cartels, that is surely the main cause of the new calls for attacking Mexico.

Even though AMLO initially claimed he would not use the military under his administration, he has deployed the military to drug-related operations and civilian security tasks since 2019, including for ...

A U.S.-backed effort to confront drug cartels with the Mexican military backfired, leading to an explosion of violence across Mexico that started in 2007 and continues to this day.