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In 2013 Mexico saw the rise of the controversial Grupos de Autodefensa Comunitaria (self-defence groups) in southern Mexico, para-military groups led by land-owners, ranchers and other rural inhabitants that took up arms against the criminal groups that wanted to impose dominance in their towns, entering a new phase in the Mexican war on drugs ...
Mexico City currently has one of the highest police officer to resident ratios in the world, with one uniformed police officer per every 100 citizens. [63] The murder rate in 2009 was 8.4 per 100,000 — by comparison, higher than the 5.6 in New York City [ 64 ] but much less than the 14.8 in Atlanta .
Some assert that the dead zone threatens lucrative commercial and recreational fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico. "In 2009, the dockside value of commercial fisheries in the Gulf was $629 million. Nearly three million recreational fishers further contributed about $10 billion to the Gulf economy, taking 22 million fishing trips."
A new report suggests Mexico's violent drug wars made it the second-deadliest conflict zone in the world last year.
The violent reputation of Los Zetas has made northeastern Mexico a no-go zone for many. [23] Los Zetas, unlike the other traditional drug cartels, act like urban guerrillas ; a police chief in Mexico explained how the Zetas would make anonymous phone calls to get the police out in the streets, block the road where the police were, and then open ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two police officers were shot to death in the embattled Mexican city of Celaya amid a wave of targeted attacks that authorities said Thursday were likely carried out by a drug ...
Drug traffickers had threatened to kill one police officer every 48 hours until the chief resigned. [57] [58] February 22 – Five assailants attack the convoy of Chihuahua governor, José Reyes Baeza, killing a bodyguard. [59] February 24 – Mexican authorities extradite Miguel Ángel Caro Quintero, top-leader of the Sonora Cartel, to the U.S ...
Mexico City 44-400 Government troops massacred between 44 (officially) and 400 (according to human rights activists, CIA documents and independent investigations) students 10 days before the 1968 Summer Olympics taking place in Mexico City, and then tried to wash the blood away, along with evidence of the massacre. Huehuetlán el Chico massacre