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Mexico had 26 homicides per 100,000 people in 2017, then the rate spiked to 29 between 2018 and 2020, according to government statistics. Last year, the government reported, the rate was 24 ...
Amid a fresh wave of violence, Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum has sent her security chief and thousands of troops to stem a bloody escalation of drug cartel crime in Sinaloa state, signaling ...
Mexicans weigh choice as they pick a new leader. — Mexico’s drug cartels and gangs appear to be playing a wider role in Sunday’s elections than before. — Mexicans choose between continuity and change in an election overshadowed by violence. — Violence clouds the last day of campaigning for Mexico’s election.
A federal jury in New York also convicted his brother, Juan Antonio "Tony" Hernández, in 2019 for drug trafficking, weapons charges and making false statements.Tony Hernández, a former ...
The former Mexico City mayor is the frontrunner in a landmark election this weekend where Mexico is all but ... the country’s war against drug cartels, vowing to restore peace with “hugs, not ...
Mexico goes into Sunday’s election deeply divided: Friends and relatives no longer talk politics for fear of worsening unbridgeable divides, while drug cartels have split the country into a patchwork quilt of warring fiefdoms. The atmosphere is literally heating up with a wave of unusual heat, drought, pollution and political violence.
— Mexicans choose between continuity and change in an election overshadowed by violence. — Violence clouds the last day of campaigning for Mexico’s election. Here's the latest in Mexico's ...
On December 11, 2006, newly elected President Felipe Calderón, from the PAN party, dispatched 6,500 Mexican Army soldiers to Michoacán, his home state, to end drug violence. This action is regarded as the first major deployment of government forces against cartels and is generally viewed as the starting point of the Mexican drug war. [62]