Why the Mexican president refuses to restart the drug war despite mayor's assassination

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum ruled out a new "war on drugs" as a response to the assassination of a regional mayor who ...
Miami New Times

Narco Cultura‘s Look at the Mexican Drug War Is Harrowing, Sobering, Depressing

The breadth of director Shaul Schwarz's documentary Narco Cultura is staggering. A hybrid of hard investigative journalism and incisive cultural criticism, the film at its core is about definitions ...
Yahoo

Mexico’s forced disappearances

They are known as the victims of Mexico’s long-running “invisible war”. Since the then president Felipe Calderón launched his "war on drugs" in 2006, more than 130,000 people have gone missing. ...

Mexican mayor who waged war on cartels is slain while celebrating Day of the Dead

Michoacán state Mayor Carlos Manzo, who called for a take-no-prisoners approach to Mexico's drug cartels, is slain while marking the Day of the Dead holiday.
The Atlantic

Mexican Drug War Ensnares U.S.

Next War On Drugs Front: Corruption The Economist sounds the alarm: Are cash-rife cartels flooding money to American border officials? Is corruption the next front in the war on drugs? "As it ...