The Zetas cartel arrived in Torreon in mid-2007, and this center of manufacturing, mining and farming once seen as a model for progress has become one of Mexico's most dangerous cities.

At Least 40 Killed in Mexico in 24 Hours in Suspected Drug Cartel Attacks By The Wall Street Journal Published July 10, 2011 3:27am EDT | Updated December 9, 2015 2:40am EST ...

Mexican Prisoners 'Let Out' to Kill as Cartel Assassins Published Jul 26, 2010 at 12:15 PM EDT Updated Jul 26, 2010 at 1:28 PM EDT Chairs and other items are scattered after gunmen invaded a party ...

MEXICO CITY-- The alleged leader of the Juarez drug cartel, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, has been arrested in the northern city of Torreon, two Mexican officials said Thursday.. Carrillo Fuentes, 51 ...

Vicente Carrillo Fuentes is shown in a sketch released by the Mexican attorney general’s office in 2005. Authorities said the Juarez drug cartel leader was seized in Torreon.

After he his brother, Rodolfo, allegedly killed a Sinaloa Cartel operative in 2004, the urban war that would later come to define Mexico during Felipe Calderon’s administration (2006-2012) had its ...

Last Updated 12:13 a.m. ET. Gunmen stormed a party in northern Mexico on Sunday and massacred 17 people, authorities said. The assailants arrived at the gathering in the city of Torreon in several ...

Tens of thousands of people have vanished in northern Mexico, many because of cartel violence. An unlikely partnership offers families a form of closure. Isabel García, a geophysicist at the ...

The video shows an armed cartel member in a skull mask leading the teens ages 14 to 18 who are dressed with black hoods over their faces obscuring their view and their hands tied behind their backs.

A Sinaloa Cartel boss known as El 22 was shot and killed inside a hospital in Culiacán, Mexico, after reportedly being mistaken for a rival by his own men. The shootout in a Mexico hospital left ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) Federal police arrested alleged Juarez drug cartel leader Vicente Carrillo Fuentes in the northern city of Torreon on Thursday, Mexican officials announced. After investigators ...