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The cartel was founded around the 1970s. When leader Pablo Acosta Villarreal was killed in April 1987 during a cross-border raid by Mexican Federal Police helicopters in the Rio Grande village of Santa Elena, Chihuahua, [8] Rafael Aguilar Guajardo took his place along with Amado Carrillo Fuentes, nephew of Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo.
More than 500 women were killed between 1993 and 2011 in Ciudad Juárez, a city in northern Mexico. [1] [2] The murders of women and girls received international attention primarily due to perceived government inaction in preventing the violence and bringing perpetrators to justice. [3]
The city was Mexico's largest border town by 1910. As such, it held strategic importance during the Mexican Revolution . In May 1911, about 3,000 revolutionary fighters under the leadership of Francisco I. Madero laid siege to Ciudad Juárez, which was garrisoned by 500 regular Federal troops under the command of General Juan José Navarro.
An armored vehicle of the Chihuahua state police makes its way down a street in Juárez, Mexico, in 2023. This article originally appeared on El Paso Times: Juárez gang accused of removing hearts ...
The following 50 cities have the highest homicide rates in the world of all cities not at war, with a population of at least 300,000 people. [1] This is based on 2022 data from El Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y la Justicia Penal (The Citizen Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice), an advocacy group from Mexico City.
Bryan Fernando H.R., a former Juárez municipal police officer, is accused of belonging to a gang that kidnapped migrants for ransom in 2023 in Juárez, Mexico.
The objective is to "besiege" Ciudad Juárez to concentrate forces and saturate the area to confront the three cartels already operating in the city. Ciudad Juárez is known to be one of the most dangerous cities in the Americas. In the year 2007 more than 100 police officers were killed in Juárez in attacks blamed on organized crime.
First anniversary protest of the Narvarte murder case, Mexico City, July 31, 2016. In 2012, Mexico had a murder rate of 21.5 per 100,000 population. [15] There were a total of 26,037 murders in Mexico in 2012. [15] Between 2000 and 2013, 215,000 people in Mexico were murdered.