The arrest of Julio César Chávez Jr., son of Mexican boxing legend Julio César Chávez, for overstaying his visa in the U.S.

Inside a sports arena in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa state, a small crowd gathered to watch young amateur boxers. A ...

The arrest last summer of Mexico's most elusive drug lord set off a bloody regional war, leaving more than 1,000 dead and more than 1,000 missing. NPR reports from the state of Sinaloa.

Why Trump is pushing military help for Mexico to help fight cartels Twenty bodies, several of them decapitated, were found on a highway bridge in a part of Mexico where factions of the Sinaloa ...

Ismael Zambada Garcia, left, was tricked into boarding a flight by Joaquín Guzmán López, right, the son of the infamous drug lord known as El Chapo. Agence France-Presse, via State Department ...

In September, Zambada pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking, murder and other charges in a New York court. The violence in Sinaloa has killed more than 1,200 people, according to official figures.

20 bodies, some decapitated, found in Mexico amid bloody cartel turf war The turf war erupted last summer after Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, the cofounder and former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, was ...

Violence has soared in Sinaloa since the capture in the U.S. of cartel co-founder Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada almost a year ago.

Joaquin Guzman Lopez is also in U.S. custody. He and another longtime Sinaloa leader, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, were arrested in July in Texas after they landed in the U.S. on a private plane.

Prosecutors in northern Mexico’s Sinaloa state are investigating the discovery of 20 male bodies with gunshot wounds – including five that were decapitated – on a bridge over a federal highway.

Zambada also pleaded not guilty. The men’s dramatic capture prompted a surge in violence in Mexico’s northern state of Sinaloa as two factions of the Sinaloa cartel clashed.