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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 ...
MEXICO CITY — Despite the latest news reports connecting President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to Mexican drug cartels and their cash, allegations of cartel involvement in Mexican political ...
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.
Washington has also been involved with Mexico's own war on drugs already. The United States sent Mexico over $3 billion in security aid from 2008 to 2023. A big question is whether the Mexican ...
The following is a list of assassinations of political candidates, which took place in Mexico during the 2024 Mexican general and local elections. Up to sixty politicians were assassinated during the pre-campaign and campaign periods in Mexico. According to the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the total number was six. [1]
— 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.
In 2013, Mexico saw the rise of the controversial grupos de autodefensa comunitaria (self-defense groups) in southern Mexico, para-military groups led by land-owners, ranchers, and other rural inhabitants that took up arms against the criminal groups that wanted to impose dominance in their towns, entering a new phase in the Mexican war on ...