Simeon TegelFebruary 3, 2012 07:00

Ciudad Juarez remains one of the most dangerous cities in the world. But since Police Chief Leyzoala took up his job in March last year, the bloodshed has declined. Yet as often happens when drug cartels are involved, the conflict isn’t so clear-cut.

Occupy Mexico? How about 'End the Drug War'?

Nathaniel Parish FlanneryJanuary 31, 2012 07:28

MEXICO CITY — This is what Mexican democracy looks like.

Mexico's drug war by the numbers (Infographic)

Sarah ChildressJanuary 27, 2012 07:27

Mexico's drug war, decoded.

Mexico drug war boosts security business

Ioan GrilloJanuary 21, 2012 08:38

MEXICO CITY — While Mexico’s merciless drug war has scared off tourists and investment dollars, it has fed one niche industry: private-security services.

Guatemala prepares to fight Mexico's Zetas cartel

Simeon TegelJanuary 17, 2012 17:38

LIMA — How will Guatemala fight its drug war?

Sarah ChildressJanuary 17, 2012 14:04

Mexico ranks high in world's most violent cities

Five of the top 10 most violent cities in the world are in Mexico, and almost all in the Americas.

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More bodies in the drug war. (JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

After three years in first place, Juarez, Mexico, may have slipped to second place this year.

But the border town and several of Mexico's other cities still remain among the most violent.

In a study released by the Citizen's Council for Public Security and Justice, a Mexican research group, five of the top 10 most violent cities were Mexican.

Mexico's cartel army, Los Zetas, is drug war's scourge

Ioan GrilloJanuary 13, 2012 07:33

MEXICO CITY — Many in Mexico’s federal police and army consider the Zetas to be the biggest problem in the drug war.

Girish GuptaJanuary 12, 2012 15:56

Mexico's Chapo Guzman named world's most powerful drug trafficker

Government announces nearly 50,000 have died in drug violence over five years.

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This archive photo of drug lord Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman was taken July 10, 1993 at the Almoloya prison in Juarez after he was apprehended by Mexican authorities. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

The US Treasury Department has named notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman the “world’s most powerful drug trafficker,” boosting the evasive cartel leader’s legendary status as the country’s drug wars appear to have killed nearly 50,000 people in five years.

Sarah ChildressJanuary 5, 2012 17:11

Which cartel is king in Mexico?

The Sinaloans and the Zetas have been battling it out, but there's not an easy answer

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Mexican Army soldiers with Juan Carlos Garza Rodriguez, aka 'El Juanillo', alleged member of the drug cartel 'Los Zetas.' Zetas members keep getting picked up, but is that just because they're so thick on the ground? (YURI CORTEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

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The guilty plea of the Tijuana cartel boss in the US on Thursday marked the official waning of that drug network. But it also raised an interesting question: which cartel is now on top?

Benjamin Arellano Felix, now 58, ran the powerful Tijuana Cartel for 16 years before he was arrested in Mexico in 2002, and was extradited to the US 9 years later.

On Location video: Mexico's oil bandits

Ioan Grillo and John DickieMarch 3, 2011 16:47

Mexican drug cartels are suspected of running large oil-stealing operations.