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Mexico Deploys Elite Police Unit To Counter Criminal Organizations In The Arizona-Sonora Border

Mexican authorities deployed an elite unit to counter criminal organizations operating across the Arizona-Sonora border

Latin Times · Aug 11, 2025

Photos of Mexican ranchers struggling to adapt as screwworm ravages their cattle exports to the US

The U.S. has suspended live cattle imports from Mexico due to concerns about the New World Screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite found in southern Mexico. This suspension has severely impacted ranchers like Martín Ibarra Vargas in Sonora, who are already struggling with drought. The U.S. Department of Agriculture calls the screwworm…

The Independent UK · Aug 5, 2025

Mayor of Mexican Border City Backs Trump Administration's Deportation Policies: 'House Cleaning'

Juan Francisco Gim Nogales, mayor of the Mexican border city of Nogales, Sonora, expressed support for the Trump administration's deportation strategy

Latin Times · Jun 24, 2025

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Mexican Governor Denies Being Targeted By The U.S. For Being a 'Suspected Terrorist': 'Completely False'

Sonora Governor Alfonso Durazo rejected being the subject of a security alert in the U.S. after a journalist reported so

Latin Times · Jun 16, 2025

Three 'Narco Messages' Found in Sonora Accuse Local Law Enforcement of Working For The 'Los Salazar' Cartel

"Los Salazar" control drug trafficking routes along the U.S.-Mexico border and its operations primarily involve smuggling methamphetamine, heroin and fentanyl

Latin Times · Feb 6, 2025

Three In Four Weapons Used By Mexican Cartels Come from The U.S., Most From Border States, Report Shows

Ghost guns and trafficking routes from Arizona to Sonora help fuel Mexico's cartel violence; President Claudia Sheinbaum asks for binational cooperation on the matter.

Latin Times · Jan 11, 2025

Natanael Cano, Tito Torbellino and Other Mexican Artists Threatened by Sinaloa Cartel Faction: Authorities Respond

They were mentioned in a "narcomanta" hanged in a High School in Hermosillo, Sonora.

Latin Times · Jan 6, 2025

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Footage Shows Former Leader of 'Los Zetas' Cartel 'El Cholo' Murdered Inside a Sinaloa Barbershop

"El Cholo" was arrested in Mexico City in 2015; authorities say that he was involved in drug trafficking, extortions and kidnappings in the state of Sonora

Latin Times · Dec 7, 2024

Mexican Navy Captures 'El Pelón,' The Leader of an Armed Wing Loyal to Sinaloa Cartel Faction 'Los Chapitos'

Authorities say "El Pelón" was using Culiacán as a hiding place and to coordinate attacks against rival groups

Latin Times · Nov 18, 2024

Sonora on High Alert After Arrest of Sinaloa Cartel-related Leader 'El Cuza'

Feliciano R. was allegedly responsible for smuggling drugs into the U.S. as well as trafficking migrants

Latin Times · Oct 7, 2024

Two Arizona sisters shot dead on highway in Mexican state of Sonora; murders linked to criminal group

Two elderly sisters were shot and killed on a notorious stretch of highway in Sonora after being ambushed

Latin Times · Aug 29, 2024

Two Arizona Women Found Shot Dead In Northern Mexico

Investigation into the deaths of two Arizona women in Mexico reveals a troubling connection to violence and drug cartels in the region.

Some shelters in Mexico's side of the border are becoming overwhelmed as rejection of migrants rises

Sonora, south of Arizona, is seeing many arrivals. Others in Texas and California have not felt the pressure yet, according to The Associated Press

Latin Times · Jun 17, 2024

The Promise — And Perils — Of 5-MeO-DMT

Found naturally in the Sonoran Desert toad, 5-MeO-DMT stands out for its quick, potent, and potentially life-altering psychedelic effects.

Inverse · Jun 10, 2024

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WEKU · May 6, 2024

Is it easy for migrants to enter the U.S.? We went to the border to find out

Morning Edition spoke to migrants hoping to enter the U.S. and the border agents tasked with keeping them out.

The Texas Tribune · Dec 20, 2023

Worried about safety, a small West Texas town challenges planned cross-border pipeline

Critics are calling on federal regulators to increase their scrutiny and oversight of the proposed pipeline, which would send gas from Texas to the Mexican coast for export to other countries.

The Independent UK · Dec 5, 2023

Residents in northern Mexico protest over delays in cleaning up a mine spill

Residents in Mexico’s northern state of Sonora have protested at the state capital against persistent pollution from an almost decade-old mine spill

The Independent UK · Nov 21, 2023

Mexican officials admit secrecy-shrouded border train project had no environmental impact study

The governor of Mexico's border state of Sonora has acknowledged that a secrecy-shrouded train project was an army undertaking that has not yet submitted any environmental impact statement, even though it is already being built

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The Independent UK · Nov 18, 2023

Residents battling a new train line in northern Mexico face a wall of government secrecy

Residents in the northern Mexican state of Sonora are battling a new train line that threatens to displace their homes and cut up the local ecosystem

The Independent UK · Oct 12, 2023

Mexico takes mining company to court seeking new remediation effort for Sonora river pollution

Mexico is pursuing a criminal complaint against the country’s largest copper producer seeking to force a new remediation program for river pollution in the northern state of Sonora

The Independent UK · Sep 29, 2023

9 years after mine spill in northern Mexico, new report gives locals hope for long-awaited cleanup

Locals are still suffering from a massive 2014 waste spill at a copper mine in the northern Mexican border state of Sonora, officials with the country's environmental agency say

Dynamite News · Jul 23, 2023

Deadly bar fire in Mexico kills 11, suspect arrested

An instance of bar fire close to the Arizona border in the Mexican state of Sonora claimed the lives of 11 people on Saturday. Read further on Dynamite News:

Daily Mirror · Jul 1, 2023

Student shot dead while doing research in Mexican state once run by drug lord El Chapo

Gabriel Trujillo, a US PhD student and botanist, was tragically shot and killed in Mexico's Sonora state, believed to be a result of mistaken identity in the violent territory once controlled by drug lord El Chapo

Los Angeles Times · Jun 30, 2023

UC Berkeley graduate student gunned down on research trip to Mexico

Gabriel Trujillo, a 31-year-old University of California, Berkeley graduate student, was shot and killed in Mexico while conducting field research, according to friends and family.

The Independent UK · Jun 30, 2023

A California scholar's research into a flowering shrub took him to Mexico and a violent death

Gabriel Trujillo’s family says he was killed in Mexico during a research trip

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