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April 30 - Baja California's State Preventive Police (PEP) arrested 5 individual's that are link to the Sinaloa Cartel, after raiding a tire garage in Mexicali. Close to a ton of marijuana, 1 grenade launcher, 1 M2 Browning machine gun, various machine guns and rifle magazines were also seized during the operation.
January 2 – Operation Baja California is launched. January 20 – Drug lord Osiel Cárdenas Guillén is extradited to the USA. [5] [6] March 17 – Zhenli Ye Gon is relieved of US$213 million in Mexico City. [7] May 14 – Jorge Altriste, head of operations for Mexico's elite police force in Tijuana, is murdered. [8]
Alfonso Duarte Múgica is a Mexican general who leads a battalion that combats the drug cartels (such as the Tijuana Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel) in Tijuana.In March 2009, President Felipe Calderón "hailed the Baja California anti-drug offensive as a model for the country."
The first programs were on a smaller scale and used mostly manual eradication, such as "Operation Cooperation" in 1970. [20] As plantation sizes grew, the eradication efforts also grew. In 1975, Mexican president Luis Echeverría approved Operation Trizo, which used aerial surveillance and spraying of herbicides and defoliants from a fleet of ...
The objective of the campaign was to secure the Baja Peninsula of Mexico, and to blockade/capture west-coast ports of Mexico—especially Mazatlan, a major port-of-entry for imported supplies. The resistance of Mexican forces to the north in the Los Angeles area and the lack of ships, soldiers and logistical support prevented an early ...
Coordinated Operation Chihuahua or formerly known as Joint Operation Chihuahua is a Military and Federal Police operation started in 2008 by the Mexican Army and Policía Federal Preventiva. The objective is to "besiege" Ciudad Juárez to concentrate forces and saturate the area to confront the three cartels already operating in the city.
Piracy on Falcon Lake refers to an increase in crime at the border between the United States and Mexico on Falcon Lake.The lake is a 60-mile (97 km) long reservoir of the Rio Grande that was constructed in 1954 and is a known drug smuggling route.
Operation Michoacán is a joint operation by Federal Police and the Mexican military to eliminate drug plantations and to combat drug trafficking. Initiated on December 11, 2006, the operation was supervised by The Secretary of Public Safety, Attorney General of Mexico , Secretary of the Interior , Mexican Navy and Mexican Army .