Funerals began on Thursday in Sonora state for three of the nine LeBaron family victims after the Mexican government said they were ambushed by drug cartels.

Guadalupe Fernández Valencia, 59, entered the two guilty pleas in a Chicago courtroom on Wednesday - almost two years after she was extradited to the United States from Mexico.

El Chapo's deadly Mexican drug cartel is flooding Melbourne streets with meth, aiming to cash in massive profits to be made in Australia. 

Dayron Luna Viera died Wednesday as a result of the severe burns he suffered when a group of armed men torched the family home in northwestern Mexico.

Claudia Ochoa Felix, 35, was found dead in a house in Isla Musala in the city of Culiacan, north-west Mexico. The model had consistently denied involvement with drug gangs in the country.

Claudia Ochoa Félix ,who allegedly led a gang tied to El Chapo's old Sinaloa Cartel, was not murdered and instead died of a drug overdose in Mexico last weekend.

El Chapo's wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro (second from right), could reportedly become a reality TV star on VH1's Cartel Crew after she met with Griselda Blanco's son, Michael (right) in Miami.

Guanajuato state authorities told DailyMail.com on Monday that they are investigating a video that shows the Sinaloa Cartel arriving in the city of Allende to lend support to a local gang.

VH1 executives confirmed to DailyMail.com on Monday that Emma Coronel Aispuro, 30, will appear on the second season of Cartel Crew, beginning with an episode on November 18.

Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman spoke of her plans to launch a clothing range in his name as she appeared in VH1 reality show Cartel Crew.

Noel 'El Flaco' Salgueiro - founder of the ruthless Gente Nueva hit squad - was taken into the custody of the FBI on Thursday and transferred to a jail in El Paso, Texas, on a narcotics charge.

The DEA says El Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel poses a threat to the United States like no other Mexican criminal group even with the notorious leader sitting behind bars in the U.S.

Realtors' apex body Credai on Saturday said cement and steel rates have increased by 40-50 per cent in last few weeks despite the lockdown and alleged price cartelisation and unfair trade practices by the manufacturers. The association has written a letter to Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri seeking his intervention in the matter. "We would like to bring your attention to the cartelization by the cement and the steel manufacturers by imposing a sudden increase in their selling price," Credai said in the letter. Across various states, there has been an increase of Rs 100-250 per bag cement and about Rs 2,000-2,500 per tonne of steel, it added. During the past few weeks, there has been a sudden, steep increase in prices of essential raw materials such as cement and steel by 40-50 per cent despite the nationwide lockdown. The Centre has allowed construction work on sites where labourers are already available. Given the current crisis faced by the real estate ...