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Tijuana, Baja California: 22 12 Wounded Morelia grenade attacks: September 15, 2008 Morelia, Michoacán: 8 132 Wounded. A series of grenades are detonated in crowds gathered to celebrate Independence Day. 2009 Ciudad Juárez prison riot: March 4, 2009 Cerezo state prison, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua 20 15 Wounded Ciudad Juárez rehab center attack
On 28 January, army personnel from the Army's 5th special forces battalion and 2nd Motorized Cavalry Regiment succeeded in the arrest of Alfredo Araujo Avila a.k.a. El Popeye in Tijuana. Alfredo Avila is known to be one of the most active assassins from the 1980s to the early 1990s of the Tijuana Cartel in the states of Sinaloa and Baja ...
The Tijuana Cartel, also known as the Arellano Félix Organization, was once among Mexico's most powerful. [193] 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 ...
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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 ...
Julio César Godoy Toscano, who was elected on July 5, 2009, to the Lower House of Congress, is discovered to be a top-ranking member of La Familia Michoacana drug cartel, and is accused of protecting that cartel. [94] He is now a fugitive. August 6 – A shootout between police and gunmen leaves over a dozen dead and 22 injured in Pachuca ...
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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 ...