"El Borrado" was named as the current leader of the criminal organization ... identified as owners of boat camps that enable the Gulf Cartel to charge fishermen wanting to cross into U.S. waters.

The Biden administration is planning to hand over Osiel Cardenas, a notorious drug cartel leader, to Mexico after releasing him from prison last week. Cardenas, who led the Gulf Cartel and founded ...

The Gulf Cartel was in the midst of a violent turf war when Cárdenas Guillén took over as its leader in 1999. For his protection, Cárdenas Guillén hired a bodyguard (retired Army lieutenant ...

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that “everything has returned to normal” following the capture of the criminal leader in Nuevo ... with cells of the Gulf Cartel, as well as ...

12 September:Gulf Cartel leader Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez, also known as El Cos, is arrested. American Édgar Valdez was born in Texas. He fled the country on charges of distributing drugs.

There had been nervousness about the impending return of Cárdenas Guillén, who once led the feared Gulf cartel in northeastern Mexico before he was arrested and extradited to the United States ...

Cárdenas Guillén made his criminal career in the Gulf drugs cartel in the 1990s, reportedly not shying away from having his allies killed to rise to the top, a practice which earned him the nickname ...

Cárdenas Guillén made his criminal career in the Gulf drugs cartel in the 1990s ... Aware of the power the gang leader wielded in the area, the security forces quickly flew him to the capital ...