The US Trump administration announced on August 5 a package of rewards totalling more than US$100 million targeting eight CJNG leaders; NBC News reports one of those targeted is a US citizen reportedly running the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, with a US$25 million bounty; Al Jazeera says the move is aimed at weakening CJNG leadership and increasing bounties under the administration's cartel pressure campaign
Mexico's first female president, a climate scientist turned Morena politician who took office October 2024 and now drives the USMCA review and cartel crackdown.
The global supply chains moving cocaine from South America's Andean coca zones to North American, European, and emerging markets, the defining geography of transnational organized crime.
Chemical feedstocks for synthesizing fentanyl, primarily supplied by China to Mexican cartel labs, that sit at the center of the US opioid crisis and US-China trade diplomacy.
Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG dominate global fentanyl and cocaine supply chains, driving a conflict that has killed more than 463,000 people since 2006.
Mexico's security chief reports the Jalisco cartel splintering 'like Sinaloa did', with a stepson among the contenders facing extradition
Sinaloa and CJNG-allied factions match Chihuahua's legal logging output; PROFEPA shuts 25 sawmills as timber money buys Chinese precursors
Army kills the CJNG founder in a US-assisted operation; narco-blockades and shootouts ripple across multiple states, and a succession war opens