Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with President Claudia Sheinbaum, after she pressed the Trump administration not to take unilateral action in Mexico.
Under pressure from the government and each other, some of Mexico’s most powerful criminal groups are amassing homemade mortars, land mines, rocket-propelled grenades and bomber drones.
A hole left by a bomb dropped by a drone in the roof of a home in El Guayabo, Michoacán, Mexico. Cartels are using IEDs, drones and makeshift explosives in their fight for territory, capable of tearing through rooftops and scattering shrapnel across the ground below.