The government also revealed it had detained thousands of migrants, as it attempts to appease Trump’s border concerns.
A global naval operation resulted in the seizure of 225 tonnes of cocaine in a semisubmersible that was seized.
Experts aren’t sure what is causing fewer overdose deaths, but they are hopeful the decline is sustainable.
Rival criminal factions are battling for control in the Mexican state of Sinaloa after the arrests of two drug lords.
The election is being held amid explosive allegations of wiretapping operations by government operatives.
Toxicology tests show One Direction star had cocaine, prescription drugs and alcohol in his system.
Fitness influencers are marketing dangerous new classes of performance-enhancing drugs to their teenage followers.
Two very different versions have emerged of Sunday’s incident when Morales says his car was hit by bullets.
The former president admits he had instructed policemen to ‘encourage’ suspects to fight back to justify their killings.
Violence has surged in Sinaloa since the arrest in July of the cartel’s co-founder Ismael Zambada, now on trial in US.
Joaquin Guzman Lopez and his brothers are accused of taking reins of the Sinaloa cartel after their father’s arrest.
Snowboarder Ryan Wedding and 15 others are accused of shipping 60 tonnes of cocaine a year to the US and Canada.
Genaro Garcia Luna was convicted of taking millions of dollars in bribes to protect the violent Sinaloa drug cartel.
The decapitated bodies in plastic bags were found just a week after a Mexican mayor was beheaded.
