Pablo Escobar, born to a farmer in rural Colombia, and Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, hailing from the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico, both ascended to power in the drug trade, creating empires that ...

Mexico has sent 29 drug cartel figures, including drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985, to the United States as the Trump administration turns up the ...

Last year, police in Rio de Janeiro raided a luxurious property owned by a local drug lord. The officers described it as a resort because it had an artificial lake and a full gym. On the day the ...

On a Sunday in February, Mexico's second-largest city ground to a standstill. Gunmen used burning cars as flaming barricades, shutting down traffic in and out of Guadalajara. Terrified zoo visitors ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 100 Drug Enforcement Administration agents packed a New York City federal courtroom Friday for the arraignment of the ...

One of Colombia’s infamous drug lords and a key operator of the Medellin cartel has been deported back to the South American country, after serving 25 years of a 30-year prison sentence in the United ...

Drug lords like Sean McGovern, a top lieutenant of the Kinahan cartel, and Faissal Taghi — son of the infamous head of the Dutch-Moroccan Mocro Maffia — used to hang out and party in Dubai’s glitzy ...

For a president who made going after drug cartels one of his political priorities, it is a brazen contradiction for Donald Trump to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was ...

MIAMI (AP) — One of Colombia’s legendary drug lords and a key operator of the Medellin cocaine cartel has been released from a federal prison in the U.S. and is expected to be deported back home.

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Ryan Knutson: On Sunday, Mexican authorities killed one of the world's most ...

NEW YORK — After years as one of U.S. authorities’ most wanted men, Mexican drug cartel boss Rafael Caro Quintero was brought into a New York courtroom Friday to answer charges that include ...