The author of The Imaginary U.S.—Mexico Drug Wars: State Power, Organized Crime, and the Political History of Narconarratives (1975–2012), explains to WIRED that the war against drug ...

death and devastation that Chapo and his Sinaloa cartel had brought to the Mexican border cities. His war of conquest of key drug smuggling routes into America cost tens of thousands of lives.

The Mexican Drug War, launched in December 2006 by then-President Felipe Calderon, is approaching its eight-year mark. The mass kidnapping came at the same time as a couple of high-profile busts.

President Donald Trump avoided a trade war, for now, with Canada and Mexico after the two U.S. allies offered plans Monday to ...