Culiacán in northern Mexico has seen a surge in violence as rival factions of the Sinaloa cartel battle for control.

A Mexican federal official says the Mexican army has killed the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in a military operation.

Decenas de narcobloqueos de carreteras en Jalisco, Guanajuato, Michoacán, Nayarit, Aguascalientes y Tamaulipas mantienen a la población y a las autoridades en máxima alerta