The U.S. military is increasing its airborne surveillance of Mexican drug cartels to collect intelligence to determine how to ...

death and devastation that Chapo and his Sinaloa cartel had brought to the Mexican border cities. His war of conquest of key drug smuggling routes into America cost tens of thousands of lives.

The Mexican Drug War, launched in December 2006 by then-President Felipe Calderon, is approaching its eight-year mark. The mass kidnapping came at the same time as a couple of high-profile busts.

A guide to the drug cartels 27 July: The National Mayors Association and Mexican Local Authorities Association report that 78 mayors have been killed since the war on drugs began in 2006.

But much of the President’s response on Saturday night rebuked Mr. Trump’s stated rationale for the tariffs: that the Mexican ...