Tag: Sinaloa Cartel

The Toll of Capturing El Chapo’s Son: 10 Soldiers, 19 Cartel Members Dead

After troops arrested a son of the notorious drug lord known as El Chapo, cartel gunmen tried to free him, resulting in a series of gun battles and thousands of troops called into the fight.

Inside the Case Against General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda

A Times Magazine-ProPublica investigation reveals how the U.S. painstakingly built a case against a Mexican general suspected of links to organized crime — and then decided to let him go.