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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.
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 ...
Julio César Godoy Toscano, who was elected on July 5, 2009, to the Lower House of Congress, is discovered to be a top-ranking member of La Familia Michoacana drug cartel, and is accused of protecting that cartel. [94] He is now a fugitive. August 6 – A shootout between police and gunmen leaves over a dozen dead and 22 injured in Pachuca ...
The Tijuana Cartel, also known as the Arellano Félix Organization, was once among Mexico's most powerful. [193] It is based in Tijuana, one of the most strategically important border towns in Mexico, [194] 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 ...
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 recent killings of two journalists within a week in the northern border city of Tijuana have fanned outrage. Journalists throughout Mexico say enough to killings and crimes against press Skip ...
Mexican States by Homicides - 2011 [1]; Rank State Homicides (2011) Homicides (2010) Change - Mexico 27,199 25,757 5.6% 1 Chihuahua 4,502 6,407 29.7% 2 State of Mexico 2,613
Baja is a tourist destination for surfers, solo travelers and psychedelic retreats, but has been a gateway for organized crime, violence, drugs, kidnappings and murders, particularly in Tijuana ...