As the Trump administration expands its presence on the Mexico border, and apparently preps a “soft invasion,” cartels are fighting local battles.

CEO Travis Bembenek sits down with historian Carlos Pérez Ricart to talk about the history of U.S. intervention in Mexico.

The U.S. military’s growing footprint south of the border is making the outbreak of violence—and the deployment of more ...

WASHINGTON — In recent days, the Trump administration has ramped up CIA surveillance drone flights over Mexico, formally ...

When the presidents of the United States and Mexico brought the two countries back from the edge of a trade war this month, each made commitments to the other ...

One human smuggler who spoke to NBC News said the troops wouldn’t make a difference, but conceded stricter border policies ...

Mexican authorities arrested two key Sinaloa Cartel operatives, El 200 and El Güerito, in Culiacán between Wednesday and ...

Can President Donald Trump beat Mexican drug cartels using tactics the United States honed against extremists in the two decades after 9/11? He seems to be betting he can, reportedly expanding CIA ...

The State Department has declared several Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations, with Department of Government ...

To better understand the implications of Trump’s early actions, we spoke with WOLA experts John Walsh and Stephanie Brewer.

VANDA FELBAB-BROWN is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Initiative on Nonstate Actors at the Brookings Institution. She ...