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A Narco Manta erected in Playa del Carmen on 27 February taking responsibility for the bombing as well as mocking and threatening the mayor. [ 384 ] 12 June – 2018 Chimney Canyon shootout : a shootout between drug smugglers and U.S. border patrol occurs in a remote area near Arivaca, Arizona , close to the border.
Count of murders in Mexico's drug conflicts (December 2006 to December 2010) The Mexican attorney general's office has claimed that 9 of 10 victims of the Mexican drug war are members of organized-crime groups, [312] although this figure has been questioned by other sources. [313]
Operation Quintana Roo (Spanish:Operacion Quintana Roo) is an anti-drug trafficking military operation jointly conducted by the Mexican army and navy in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. The operation began in early February 2009 after the death of former Brigadier General Mauro Enrique Tello Quiñónez and two other men.
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 ...
March 09, 2023, Mexico City, Mexico: Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during his briefing morning conference , at the Intelligence Center of the Ministry of Public and Citizen ...
The Gulf Cartel, a drug cartel based in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, was founded in the 1930s by Juan Nepomuceno Guerra. [13] [14] Originally known as the Matamoros Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Matamoros), [15] the Gulf Cartel initially smuggled alcohol and other illegal goods into the U.S. [14] Once the Prohibition era ended, the criminal group controlled gambling houses, prostitution rings ...
Mexico’s long war against drug cartels began in late 2006, when former president Felipe Calderón deployed 50,000 soldiers onto the nation’s streets, leading to a surge in violence and ...
Abigael González Valencia (Spanish pronunciation: [aβiɣaˈel ɣonˈsales βaˈlensja]; born October 18, 1972), commonly referred to by his alias El Cuini (Spanish pronunciation: [el ˈkwini]), is a Mexican suspected drug lord and former leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), a criminal group based in Jalisco.