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On 8 June, the Army issued a posthumous promotion to eight of its members who were killed in the helicopter attack. [128] Among them were two Army infantry captains, an Air Force pilot, an Army infantry lieutenant, an Air Force sub-lieutenant, two-second-degree Army infantry sergeants, and another Air Force member.
Gonzalo Inzunza Inzunza (17 August 1971 – 18 December 2013), commonly referred to by his alias El Macho Prieto, was a Mexican suspected drug lord and high-ranking leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, a criminal group based in Sinaloa, Mexico.
Sinaloa Cartel gunmen opened fire on Mexican armed forces with a half-dozen .50-caliber truck-mounted machine guns. The army responded by calling in Blackhawk helicopter gunships to attack a convoy of 25 cartel vehicles, including the gun platforms. Then the cartel gunmen opened fire on the helicopters, forcing two of them down with "a ...
The clashes follow the arrests on U.S. soil of Sinaloa Cartel co-founder Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, as well as Joaquin Guzman Lopez, a son of El Chapo. Over 30 killed in Mexico after cartel leaders ...
Authorities in Mexico said Wednesday they have largely confirmed the contents of a grisly drug cartel video showing gunmen shooting, kicking and burning the corpses of their enemies. In a country ...
Acosta was killed in April 1987, during a cross-border raid into the Rio Grande village of Santa Elena, Chihuahua, by Mexican Federal Police helicopters, with assistance from the FBI. [5] Rafael Aguilar Guajardo took Acosta's place but he was killed soon after by Amado Carrillo Fuentes, who took control of the organization.
He claimed that a prominent politician in Sinaloa was killed in the process. Zambada, 76, the cartel’s co-founder, was long believed to have police, soldiers and political leaders in his pocket.
Lazcano was the most powerful cartel leader to be killed since the start of Mexico's drug war in 2006. [ 56 ] Lazcano's death differs from those of other cartel leaders in Mexico – including the Gulf Cartel kingpin Antonio Cárdenas Guillén , La Familia Michoacana leader Nazario Moreno González and the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel leader Arturo ...