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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."
On April 26, 15 gunmen from the Tijuana Cartel were killed in a gunbattle against rivals. [16] On May 18, In the city of Playas de Rosarito, Baja California, the 28th Infantry Battalion received a tip that men were unloading packages from a boat to three vehicles, immediately the army were dispatched to the area. Upon arriving the Air Recon ...
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 ...
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
April 26 – 15 people are killed in a gun battle between the Tijuana Cartel and a rival drug cartel in Tijuana, Baja California. [17] May 8 – Acting commissioner of the Federal Police Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez is gunned down in Mexico City. He was the highest-ranking Mexican official killed. [18]
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 ...
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 ...
The Beltrán Leyva Organization (BLO), also known as the Beltrán Leyva Cartel [2] (Spanish: Cártel de los Beltrán Leyva, [3] pronounced [ˈkaɾtel ðe los βelˈtɾan ˈlejβa], CBL), [4] was a Mexican drug cartel and organized crime syndicate, formerly headed by the five Beltrán Leyva brothers: Marcos Arturo, Carlos, Alfredo, Mario Alberto, and Héctor.