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Jorge Luis Mendoza Cárdenas, commonly referred to by his alias La Garra ('The Claw'), is a Mexican suspected drug lord and high-ranking leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), a criminal group based in Jalisco.
The Guadalajara Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Guadalajara), also known as The Federation (Spanish: La Federación), was a Mexican drug cartel which was formed in the late 1970s by Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, Rafael Caro Quintero, and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo in order to ship cocaine and marijuana to the United States.
On 11 April 2020, CJNG cell leader María del Carmen Albarrán was arrested in the Venustiano Carranza borough of Mexico City. [ 169 ] In May 2020, it was reported that former CJNG security chief Enrique Alejandro Pizano, who was arrested in September 2015 died in a Jalisco prison on 13 May 2020 due to COVID-19 .
In 2013 Mexico saw the rise of the controversial Grupos de Autodefensa Comunitaria (self-defence 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 drugs ...
This was the deadliest attack on Mexico's new gendarmerie. [350] [351] April 6 – In San Sebastián del Oeste, Jalisco, gunmen ambushed and killed 15 police officers. Five more were wounded in the attack. It was the highest single mass killing against Mexico's police force since 2010. [352] [353]
Gerardo González Valencia (Spanish pronunciation: [xe'ɾaɾdo ɣon'sales βa'lenθja]; born c. 1976) is a Mexican convicted drug lord and high-ranking member of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), a criminal group based in Jalisco.
Mexico City 120 Also known as "El Halconazo", a student march got brutally attacked by a shock group called Los Halcones: Huitzotlaco Massacre May 14, 1977 Huitzotlaco, Atlapexco, Hidalgo 3 Murder of 3 peasants by gunmen hired by caciques, 12 Wounded [28] [29] [30] Masacre del Penal de Oblatos October 10, 1977 Guadalajara, Jalisco 14
The Mérida Initiative, a U.S. Counter-Narcotics Assistance to Mexico. Mexican cartels (also known in Mexico as: la Mafia (the mafia or the mob), La Maña (the skill / the bad manners), [21] narcotraficantes (narco-traffickers), or simply as narcos usually refers to several, rival, criminal organizations that are combated by the Mexican government in the Mexican War on Drugs (List sorted by ...