Vanda Felbab-Brown

The Mexican Sinaloa crime cartel set up a huge methamphetamine laboratory on a game farm near Swartruggens in North West

Much of Donald Trump’s foreign policy is chaotic and his war against Iran looks set to end in a costly failure

If convicted, he could face life in prison or a mandatory minimum of 40 years behind bars

But last week, the fabled criminal met his death not because of a dramatic betrayal on behalf of one of his loyal gunmen, or even due to a cocaine trafficking operation being intercepted by watchful authorities

President Claudia Sheinbaum held her Friday morning press conference in Mazatlán, the top tourist destination in the northern state of Sinaloa

U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Mexico issued the alert after violence broke out on Sunday following a Mexican military operation that killed Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) who was also known as "El Mencho."

More than 70 people — including 25 National Guard members — were killed in the violence which followed El Mencho's death

Mexican drug lord Nemesio Oseguera, nicknamed ‘El Mencho’, carrying a reward of $15 million hunted down in a massive operation involving Mexico's authorities after tip off from one of his romantic partners — information that reportedly helped officials quickly plan the raid

Over the past year U.S. security officials have increasingly expressed concern about the use of drones by Mexican cartels, which mostly employ crudely adapted versions of off-the-shelf models to drop drug packages or surveil trafficking routes

The oil-backed digital currency was intended to help Venezuela break a US blockade and capitalise on the global crypto mania that had sent the price of Bitcoin soaring