Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum ruled out a new "war on drugs" as a response to the assassination of a regional mayor who was shot at a Day of the Dead celebration, a brazen killing that has sparked national outrage.

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 of success and power, and how today those terms are shaped ...

The murder of Mexico’s most vocal anti-crime mayor shows that, despite President Claudia Sheinbaum’s crackdown on drug cartels, the battle is just beginning.

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. “In many cases, those disappeared have been forcibly ...

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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has ruled out changes to her administration’s security policies after the assassination of a mayor in the violent state of Michoacan