Mexico’s Response to Trump’s Tariffs: Troops, Cartels and China Aiming to appease President Trump, Mexico is hitting China with tariffs, handing cartel leaders over to the United States and using C.I.A. intelligence to hunt down others.

Trump Officials Split Over How Hard to Go on Mexican Cartels A Mexican delegation will meet in Washington on Thursday to finalize a security deal, as White House officials debate a strategy for fighting cartels and stemming the flow of drugs across the border.

State Dept. Draws Up List of Cartels to Be Labeled Terrorist Groups The move against a half-dozen organizations followed an executive order from President Trump that said the United States would ensure their “total elimination.”

State Dept. to Designate Latin American Cartels as Terrorist Groups The move against a half-dozen organizations followed an executive order from President Trump that said the United States would ensure their “total elimination.”

How Trump’s Plan to Label Some Drug Cartels ‘Terrorists’ Would Work His administration would have more power to impose economic penalties and travel restrictions, and potentially even take military action inside foreign countries.

Labeling Mexican Cartels ‘Terrorists’ Could Expose U.S. Companies to Sanctions Isolating U.S. companies from cartel activities could be almost impossible given that the criminal groups operate in sectors like agriculture and tourism, leaving some American businesses vulnerable to sanctions.

How Mexican Cartels Test Fentanyl on Vulnerable People and Animals A global crackdown on fentanyl has led cartels to innovate production methods and test their risky formulas on people, as well as rabbits and chickens.

How a Journalist Went From Exposing Mexican Cartels to Losing His Crypto Life Savings Olivier Acuña had to keep his wits about him to survive as a reporter. Then he worked in crypto and got scammed out of $400,000.

Mexican Cartels Lure Chemistry Students to Make Fentanyl Criminals turn college campuses into recruitment hubs, recruiting chemistry students in Mexico with big paydays.

GOP Voters Show Appetite for Calls to Use Military Force Against Mexican Cartels G.O.P. candidates on the trail have used the idea as both an effective applause line and a solution for what many Republicans see as an unchecked border.

How Ecuador Became a Gold Rush Country for Drug Cartels In Ecuador, an intelligence official said: “People consume abroad, but they don’t understand the consequences that take place here.”