August 10 was, for many in Mexico, a quiet Sunday like any other. But in Sinaloa—a northwestern state facing the Pacific—it ...

In Mexico, police have long had a reputation of corruption and extrajudicial violence. Surveys show police are among the least trusted of government employees.

Her security chief, Omar García Harfuch, now Mexico’s security minister, worked closely with U.S. law-enforcement agencies and boosted intelligence gathering, police training and salaries.

The violence in Mexico is the worst it’s been since the American-backed drug war began in 2006. Nearly 100 people are killed every day in Mexico, and fewer than 5 percent of those cases are ever ...

Cartel violence is nothing new to Mexico, but bloodshed in the country has spiked ahead of the election, with April marking the most lethal month this year, government data shows.

MEXICO CITY — Volatile protests engulfed Mexico’s capital on Monday as police clashed with thousands of feminist activists calling for an end to what they say is a crisis of violence against ...

In Mexico, protests against police brutality erupted in the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco, last week following the police killing of 30-year-old Giovanni López Ramírez for allegedly not wearing a ...