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This is a list of Mexico's 37 most-wanted drug lords as published by Mexican federal authorities on 23 March 2009. According to a BBC Mundo Mexico report, the 37 drug lords "have jeopardized Mexico national security."
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 ...
The Tijuana Cartel, also known as the Arellano Félix Organization, was once among Mexico's most powerful. [191] It is based in Tijuana, one of the most strategically important border towns in Mexico, [192] 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 ...
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 ...
[17] 2017 was Mexico's deadliest year on record, with 31,174 murders recorded, leading to a murder rate of 25 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2017, compared with 19.4 in 2011. [18] In May 2018, Mexico broke the previous deadliest month on record set in October with 2,530 reported cases of intentional homicides during the month, or 93 per day. [ 19 ]
He was the second in command for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel division in Tijuana, with the murder believed to be carried out by a rival cartel. [389] 30 October – David Garcia, alias "El Pistache", is arrest along with two other after a gunfight in Santa Fe, Mexico City. Garcia was the leader of a drug and weapon smuggling cartel named ...
Murder of 3 peasants by gunmen hired by caciques, 12 wounded [28] [29] [30] Masacre del Penal de Oblatos October 10, 1977 Guadalajara, Jalisco 14 14 inmates murdered and seven injured. [31] Tzacuala massacre January 21, 1980 Tzacuala, Huautla, Hidalgo 4 4 peasants killed in Ambush in a village in Tzacauala. [32] [33] Golonchán Viejo massacre
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 ...