Jan. 30 (UPI) --Arnoldo "La Minsa" Rueda-Medina, an accused member of the Sinaloa Cartel-allied La Familia Michoacana cartel, was extradited from Mexico to the United States. Rueda-Medina, 47, is ...

The drug trafficking organization known as the Familia Michoacana distributed a series of flyers and hung banners throughout the state last week offering a truce with the Mexican governement, reports ...

A clash between two groups of armed civilians left two people dead, including Luis Pineda, alias "El Wicho," an alleged leader of the La Familia Michoacana criminal organization. The attack occurred ...

The U.S. government has taken serious action against one of Mexico’s most feared drug cartels. On Tuesday, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that it has placed sanctions on four key members of a ...

Recent arrests of alleged kidnappers in Guerrero and arms traffickers in the State of Mexico both lead back to the Familia Michoacana, suggesting the once powerful cartel may still be stronger than is ...

La Familia Michoacana split in 2011 after several of its members were arrested or killed by security forces (Reuters) The bodies of eight members of the same family, including two women, have been ...

Members of a feared drugs cartel in Mexico ate the hearts of victims to prove their loyalty to crime bosses, according to officials. The twisted initiation ceremony by La Familia Michoacana also saw ...

Reporting from Patzcuaro, Mexico — There are few places in Mexico that better illustrate the way traffickers have corrupted the political system from its very foundation than Michoacan, the home state ...

The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned four individuals affiliated with La Nueva Familia Michoacana (LNFM), a Mexican cartel designated as a Foreign Terrorist ...

More than 30 members of a powerful Los Angeles street gang have been indicted by a federal grand jury as part of two investigations involving the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and ...

If the banners hanging from bridges in the western state of Michoacán this week are to be believed, Mexico’s horrific drug war has turned a hopeful corner. The signs declared that one of Mexico’s most ...