Franz Kauenhofen, deeply in debt, and excommunicated from his church for owning a smartphone, took a hard turn towards a life of sin and became one of the most dangerous drug traffickers in the southern Mexican state of Campeche.

One of Mexico's most violent cartels is swindling American senior citizens out of 100s of millions of dollars a year via a sophisticated timeshare scam.

The removal of lead from car batteries, many from the United States, at recycling plants in northern Mexico has led to high levels of lead contamination, a new report found.

As criminal organizations control more territory in less-populated regions, health care workers, caught in the crossfire, grow reluctant to work in such places.

The police and city officials have turned a blind eye to misconduct, current and former police officials say — leaving victims of abuse, many of them poor, with little recourse.

Tens of thousands of Mexicans walked through the streets Sunday to show their support for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador amid some pushback to his political agenda in recent weeks.

A look at 15 years of attempts to clean up Mexico’s most polluted waterway revealed that the country has neither the means nor the laws to preserve its environment.

The brutal cartels, like legitimate companies, struggled as governments imposed border closures and lockdowns, and had to get creative.

A look at 15 years of attempts to clean up Mexico’s most polluted waterway revealed that the country has neither the means nor the laws to preserve its environment.

Current and former soldiers and officers are joining human rights groups to denounce Mexico’s ever-increasing militarization of civilian law enforcement, a trend solidified with the new Internal Security Law, passed by lawmakers in December. The law is facing challenges in the Supreme Court.