Alejandro Martínez had received so many threats that the Mexican government appointed him protection. On Sunday, he was shot and killed and his bodyguards wounded.
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How Fentanyl Laid Waste to Guatemala’s Time-Worn Opium Trade
Reshaping the drug war in one of Central America’s most lawless corners, the fentanyl boom has devastated the trade in opium poppies used to make heroin.
A Mexican Drug Cartel Targets Retirees and Their Timeshares
One of Mexico’s most violent criminal groups, Jalisco New Generation, runs call centers that offer to buy retirees’ vacation properties. Then, it empties its victims’ bank accounts.
She Looked for Her Missing Brother. Now, People Are Looking for Her.
The violent abduction of volunteer searcher Lorenza Cano is yet another fresh wound for the hundreds of mothers looking for Mexico’s missing.
How Ecuador’s Neighbors Unleashed Drug Violence on Its Soil
A presidential candidate’s assassination has focused global attention on the country’s extraordinary bloodshed fueled by powerful international and domestic crime groups.
Mexico’s ‘Monster’ Trucks Show Cartels Taking Drug War to Next Level
Taking the monster truck concept to deadly new realms, cartels are modifying pickups with gun turrets, steel armoring and battering rams.
Inside the Case Against General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda
A Times Magazine-ProPublica investigation reveals how the U.S. painstakingly built a case against a Mexican general suspected of links to organized crime — and then decided to let him go.
‘Absolute Warfare’: Cartels Terrorize Mexico as Security Forces Fall Short
The president disbanded the Federal Police and created the National Guard to tackle soaring violence, but three years later, criminal cartels have expanded their reach.
In Mexico, One Cartel Is Cleared, but Others Storm In
In the state of Michoacán, small drug cartels compete with larger ones for territory, leaving the residents caught in the middle of a brutal turf war.
Mexico’s President Defends News Anchor After Cartel Threat
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador came out in defense of a TV news anchor, Azucena Uresti, after she received a death threat, apparently from a powerful drug cartel.