A presidential candidate’s assassination has focused global attention on the country’s extraordinary bloodshed fueled by powerful international and domestic crime groups.
When sweeping charges against the Chapitos were announced last month, the Justice Department presented a unified front. It was another story behind the scenes.
The charges, in five related cases, offered a panoramic view of how the deadly drug was created, transported and ultimately sold by the Sinaloa cartel on American streets.
A spate of incidents, including a kidnapping and the death of two Americans near the border, and protests among taxi drivers in Cancún, is rattling would-be tourists.