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The Mexican drug war (also known as the Mexican war on drugs; Spanish: Guerra contra el narcotráfico en México, shortened to and commonly known inside Mexico as the war against the narco; Spanish: Guerra contra el narco) [30], known also as Calderón's war [31] is an ongoing asymmetric [32] [33] armed conflict between the Mexican government ...
Mexico's army appears to be raiding only a handful of active drug labs every month, despite U.S. pressure to crack down on fentanyl trafficking, with facilities that were already out of use ...
In addition to drug trafficking Quintero Navidad was wanted by Mexico for the murder of singer Tito Torbellino and in the United States for the murder of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena. He is one of the highest ranking cartel leaders to be arrested in the United States. [367]
Security forces clashed with gunmen on Monday in one of Mexico's most violent states, leaving 10 suspected criminals dead and three police officers injured, authorities said.
According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Nuevo Laredo is the busiest border crossing in terms of truck crossings with over 1.7 million trucks a year, more than double than any other crossing in the Mexico–United States border. [28] Nuevo Laredo is the fourth-busiest border crossing in terms of passenger vehicles. [28]
Some 53 people have been killed and 51 others are missing in Mexico's western Sinaloa state since rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel began clashing on Sept 9, local authorities said on Friday ...
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.
The country's other major drug ring — the Sinaloa Cartel — is a CJNG rival. ... Tijuana has been at the top of the news in Mexico for cartel threats to not only public officials, but also ...