May 10, 2022 / 8:15 AM EDT / CBS/AP The Gulf Clan drug cartel shut down dozens of towns in northern Colombia for four days in reaction to its leader being extradited to the U.S. for trial.

Hugo “The Goat” Salinas Cortinas, one of the leaders of the Gulf cartel’s Metros faction, has been arrested in Tamaulipas, Mexico, across the border from Texas.

Days after the death of a top Gulf Clan capo, the military said it had killed several more of the cartel's members and taken two captive during an operation in the country's northwest.

The Gulf Cartel is a long-standing, powerful drug trafficking organization that operates throughout the Mexican state of Tamaulipas and has been accused by the U.S. of moving arms, drugs, and ...

A secretive faction of Mexico’s notorious Gulf Cartel apologized and turned in five members who they say are responsible for the broad-daylight kidnapping that killed two Americans last week.

Relatives had reported receiving ransom demands for the musicians, who were aged between 20 and 40 years old. Mexican musicians have been targeted previously by cartel members amid rivalry, as ...

The cartel paid its members "between 10 and 15 million (Colombian pesos, between $2,300 and 3,500) for some dead police officers," Interior Minister Armando Benedetti told a weekly government ...

The Gulf cartel apologized Thursday after two U.S. citizens were killed in an armed abduction last week in Mexico. The cartel condemned the violence in a letter obtained by The Associated Press ...