Last week, Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was captured in the town of Los Michos, possibly because of an interview he conducted with Sean Penn for Rolling Stone. The Sinaloa cartel, however, will carry on business as usual: “It’s not even going to skip a beat,” one analyst told AFP.

As an American who is fortunate enough to have ready access to the finest yogurt from around the world, a sense of revulsion at watery, inferior European yogurt brands is nothing new. But now we know that these inferior yogurt brands are actual criminals.

Mexican officials announced yesterday the detention of Felipe Rodríguez Salgado, who they allege is the leader of the criminal group that killed 43 students and burned their bodies three months ago, the New York Times reports.

Authorities are calling downtown LA the new Miami—as far as drug money laundering schemes go.

Spanish law enforcement officials are reporting that they have arrested Hernan Alonso Villa, the alleged leader of a Colombian cocaine cartel. Villa was apprehended while driving along the coast of Spain in Alicante on Friday, police say.

Meet Rosalio Reta, an inmate in Texas who killed over 30 people during his time as a hitman—starting at age 13—for Miguel Treviño, the just-captured boss of the brutal Zeta drug cartel.

At 3:45 on Monday morning, Mexican marines stopped a car heading west from Nuevo Laredo. Inside was $2 million, nine weapons, 500 rounds of ammunition—and this man, "40," the leader of the Zetas drug cartel.

This is "Mexican Drug Blood," a regular feature on the deadly Mexican drug wars.

This is "Mexican Drug Blood," a new regular feature on the deadly Mexican drug wars.

This is "Mexican Drug Blood," a new regular feature on the deadly Mexican drug wars.

Barrett Brown, the face of Anonymous, made CNN last week with bold taunts of the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas. Now he's booking it north. Probably a good idea, judging from the gruesome news out of Mexico.

On Tuesday morning, two gruesomely mutilated bodies were discovered in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo, hanging from a pedestrian bridge. Next to the bodies were signs, one of which read "This will happen to all the internet snitches. Be warned, we've got our eye on you. Signed, Z "

The Obama administration picked a quiet late-summer day to finally remove acting ATF director Kenneth Melson over the botched "Fast and Furious" operation that ultimately put assault rifles into the hands of criminals along the border. Melson wasn't fired though — merely relocated to a new Justice Department job. This is a great "win" for the NRA!

Just over two weeks ago, Mexican authorities arrested a notorious mass murderer, Oscar Osvaldo Garcia, who is nicknamed after a popular TV hand puppet, "El Compayito." He admitted to personally killing, or ordering the murders of around 600 people. Today, the Washington Post reports on Mexican law enforcement's penchant for videotaping and airing dramatic confessions on TV. Here's a sample of Garcia's confession, made shortly after his arrest:

A 15-year-old kid named Edgar Jiménez Lugo, also known as "El Ponchis," was sentenced to three years in jail yesterday by a Mexican court for beheading four people on behalf of a drug cartel, as well as drug trafficking and kidnapping. A U.S. citizen born in San Diego, Lugo gained notoriety last year after he confessed on video (above) to killing cartel rivals and random people for money and drugs, which he started doing at age 11. Lugo's sentence was the maximum available given his age.

The Los Angeles Times has read the congressional report on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives operation called Fast and Furious during which federal agents sold 1,765 guns to Mexican smugglers (and then drug cartels), and guess what? It was a really bad idea.

Running easily purchased American guns to Mexican gangs is all the rage these days in the Great American Southwest, so you know it couldn't be long until a border town's mayor, sheriff, and city council got in on the fun.

Mexican drug cartels are allegedly hiring hitmen as young as 12 years old to kill rivals and, failing that, random people — "maybe a construction worker or a taxi driver" — one kid, "El Ponchis" says on a cartel video.

Eighteen tourists who disappeared in September were found in a mass grave in Acapulco, Mexico. The tourists, mostly mechanics who vacationed together every year, seem to have been killed as revenge against a cartel based in their home state, Michoacan.

And another drug lord goes down: Mexican authorities have arrested Margarito Soto Reyes, also known as "The Tiger," in Guadalajara with eight other alleged members of the Sinaloa cartel. [BBC; pic: AP]