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The operation was launched on January 2, 2007, with the deployment of 3,296 officers of the Secretaries of Defense, Navy, Public Security and the department of the Attorney General of Mexico. [2] The Secretariat of Defense sent 2,620 soldiers, 21 airplanes, 9 helicopters, 28 ships, 247 tactical vehicles and ten drug-sniffing dogs .
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In March 2009, President Felipe Calderón "hailed the Baja California anti-drug offensive as a model for the country." [1] General Duarte received media attention in 2011 after a video was released in which he commented that Cuauhtémoc Cardona, the secretary-general of Baja California, was "drunk, rude and disrespectful." [2]
Operation Sand Flea: an operation whose purpose was to exercise, display, and assert U.S. freedom-of-movement rights, with convoys traveling both inside and outside Panama for that express purpose. Raid at Renacer Prison: a military operation in which the prison was taken over and 64 prisoners were rescued.
March 27 – The Federal government launches the Operation Chihuahua to confront the three drug cartels operating in the state. [15] Ciudad Juárez's violence is among the major concerns in this operation. [16] April 26 – 15 people are killed in a gun battle between the Tijuana Cartel and a rival drug cartel in Tijuana, Baja California. [17]
Mexican Drug War, Operation Baja California Brigadier General Gilberto Landeros Briseño is second in command (under General Alfonso Duarte Múgica ) of the second military region in Tijuana . He served in the military unit combatting organized crime groups such as the Tijuana Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel . [ 1 ]
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.
This is a list of conflicts in The Americas.This list includes all present-day countries starting northward first from Northern America (Canada, Greenland, and the United States of America), southward to Middle America (Aridoamerica, Oasisamerica, and Mesoamerica in Mexico; and Central America over Panama, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua), eastward to the ...