A recent report on poppy in Mexico’s Guerrero state highlights both the economic benefits and violent repercussions the plant’s cultivation — necessary for producing heroin — brings to local farming ...

The discovery of a truck converted into an armored vehicle has raised alarms about escalating firepower in Guerrero, Mexico, though the “narco-tank” may be nothing more than a show of force. The ...

In the spring and summer of 2018, The Desert Sun's immigration reporter, Rebecca Plevin, and veteran Desert Sun photographer Omar Ornelas made several reporting trips to the U.S.-Mexico border. They ...

The links between bloodshed in Mexico and US drug consumption are extensive. For Mexico’s most violent state, Guerrero, surging heroin use in the US has fed a cycle of violence that has killed and ...

Banners placed in at least three locations in the state capital of Chilpancingo over the past two weeks warned that there ...

Guerrero is a state on Mexico's Pacific coast, known for its touristic city Acapulco. However, Acapulco is ranked the second most violent city in the world, and Guerrero, the second poorest state in ...

Xaboo Mephaa specializes in traditional homestyle dishes popular in southern Mexico, like picaditas and gorditas. Their street style tacos, shown here, are also a bestseller. The family-run ...

Recently, in a donated office space in downtown Chilpancingo, the capital of Mexico’s Guerrero State, members of the local journalists’ association settled in for a meeting. They’d come to discuss the ...

European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe, No. 112 (July-December 2021), pp. 71-89 (19 pages) Mexico’s so-called “War on Drugs ...

Lawmakers in Mexico’s southwestern state of Guerrero voted on Tuesday to allow abortions, making it the ninth of the country’s 32 federal entities where women can legally end pregnancies amid a recent ...

During the weekend before Thanksgiving, violence in Guerrero state in southwest Mexico claimed the lives of as many as 27 people — some of them found dismembered, others gunned down on the streets of ...

A drug gang shot to death 20 people, including a mayor and his father, in the mountains of southern Mexico, officials said Thursday. A video posted on social media showed men who identified themselves ...