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On April 26, 15 gunmen from the Tijuana Cartel were killed in a gunbattle against rivals. [ 16 ] On May 18, In the city of Playas de Rosarito, Baja California , the 28th Infantry Battalion received a tip that men were unloading packages from a boat to three vehicles, immediately the army were dispatched to the area.
10 May – Four people are killed during clashes at the Pharr–Reynosa International Bridge, on the Mexico–United States border, between police and suspected cartel members. [445] 20 May – Ensenada shootout: Gunmen open fire during a car racing show in Ensenada, Baja California, killing ten people and injuring nine others. [446]
It is based in Tijuana, one of the most strategically important border towns in Mexico, [194] and continues to export drugs even after weakening by an internal war in 2009. Due to infighting, arrests and the deaths of some of its top members, the Tijuana Cartel is a fraction of what it was in the 1990s and early 2000s, when it was considered ...
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The U.S. authorities speculated in 2009 that Tijuana's former police boss, Julián Leyzaola, had made agreements with Sánchez Arellano to bring relative peace in Tijuana. [15] With the arrest of El Teo in January 2010, much of his faction was eliminated from the city of Tijuana; some of its remains went off and joined with the Sinaloa Cartel .
A recent killing spree in the Mexican border city of Tijuana could have been lifted from a TV script: enraged drug lords hunting down corrupt police officers who stole a drug shipment. Two of the ...
As of 18 January 2011, Mexico had captured or killed 20 of the 37 in the most-wanted list. [9] The 21 June 2011 arrest of José de Jesús Méndez Vargas, [10] a.k.a. "El Chango", brought the total to twenty-one captured or killed.
In Mexico, journalists and human rights groups denounce the violence against and killings of reporters. Three have been killed since the beginning of this year. 'Annihilating journalism': Mexican ...