In the resort town of Tapalpa, a deadly military raid exposed how cartel power, state absence and a fragile calm have coexisted for years.

Ugo César Macias Ureña, known as El Tuli or El Tulipan, was the right-hand man of El Mencho and was the main organizer of the riots that erupted after his death.

One Texan was able to return home from Puerto Vallarta after cartel violence erupted in the region, but her travel party remains stranded in Mexico.

Mexicans living in Ireland are not hopeful that the killing of a powerful drug lord by Mexican security forces on Sunday will ...