Since 2007, Mexico's drug war has resulted in the murder of more ... "Cartel Land," nominated for a 2016 Academy Award for best documentary, sheds light on a less well-known part of the story ...

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.

Show more Mexico, with its history of drug-war violence and corrupt police, has one of the highest kidnapping rates in the world. Official figures for 2015 state that just over 1500 people were taken.