Over 700 exotic animals were evacuated from Sinaloa’s Ostok Sanctuary due to cartel violence, one of the largest animal relocations in Mexico's history.

Exotic animals in Culiacán's Ostok Sanctuary are evacuated amid cartel violence. Staff face threats and government inaction as Sinaloa Cartel factions clash.

Or DEA agents. Or the CIA. We arrive at a nondescript house in a residential area on the southern side of Culiacán city and are instructed to cover our camera on the way in. It’s a neighborhood ...

Due to the rising violence in Culiacán, the most important wildlife sanctuary in Mexico, Ostok Sanctuary, has made the tough decision to permanently close its location in the capital of Sinaloa ...

CULIACÁN, Mexico — In this city built from the spoils of Mexico’s richest drug-trafficking empire, they’re calling it the “narco-pandemia’’ — not a virus but a deadly reckoning ...

The US DEA had offered a $1 million reward for Figueroa, wanted for alleged federal crimes including fentanyl trafficking ...

One recent incident targeted a tomb near Sinaloa’s capital Culiacán said to belong to the family of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada. Two sons of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán are in custody in ...

A group of armed men stormed into a drug rehab facility in the city of Culiacán, Mexico, at around 2:00 in the morning on April 7, and rounded up the 20 or so individuals living there. The director of ...

New York Times reporters witnessed the dangerous fentanyl production process inside a secret lab in Culiacán run by Mexico’s most powerful criminal syndicate. Mexico Dispatch New York Times ...

CULIACÁN, Mexico—Even Jesús Malverde, the patron saint of drug traffickers, has fallen victim to the vicious turf war ripping apart Mexico’s biggest producer and smuggler of fentanyl.