From Medellín to Mexico, the deaths of cartel kingpins rarely end the narcotics economy. As history shows, the fall of one drug lord often signals transformation, not closure.

Cartels in Mexico deal in more than just drugs; their tentacles reach into nearly every segment of criminal activity.

The template was forged in Medellín by Pablo Escobar: immense wealth, absolute violence, and the charisma of a folk hero. But the modern Mexican carte.

This week, New Times published “I, Max,” a feature story revealing what became of former Medellin Cartel master-smuggler Max Mermelstein after he decided to cooperate with feds and entered the Witness ...

Martin Suarez is the only deep-undercover FBI agent in history to have infiltrated a Colombian drug cartel. In 1988, he transformed into “Manny” and became a high-level smuggler for Pablo Escobar’s ...

As Suarez notes in the book, he was the first FBI agent in history to spearhead a long-term, deep-undercover operation targeting Colombia’s most ruthless drug cartels. Rising to power in the 1980s, ...

Martin Suarez returned from a morning run in his Puerto Rican gated community in August 1994 to an assassin emerging from the shadows, a Smith & Wesson revolver heavy in his hand. Suarez, an FBI ...

One of Colombia's legendary drug lords and a key operator of the Medellin cocaine cartel has been released from a U.S. prison and is expected to be deported back home. Records from the U.S. Bureau of ...

MIAMI — One of Colombia's legendary drug lords and a key operator of the Medellin cocaine cartel has been released from a federal prison in the U.S. and is expected to be deported back home. Records ...