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Salvatierra massacre. The 2023 Salvatierra massacre was a mass shooting at a Christmas Party on December 17, 2023, [1] that left approximately 11 people dead and 24 people injured in the outskirts of the city of Salvatierra, Guanajuato, Mexico.
La Familia Michoacana. La Familia Michoacana (LFM; [3][4] English: The Michoacán Family), La Familia (English: The Family), is a Mexican drug cartel and organized crime syndicate based in the Mexican state of Michoacán. They are known to produce large amounts of methamphetamine in clandestine laboratories in Michoacan. [5]
Shooting. According to Mexican Deputy Security Minister Ricardo Mejía Berdeja, the attack began around 2:00pm local time in the town of Yerbabuena, before spreading to the town square of Tuzantla. [3] [4] [5] The fighting began after a rival faction of La Familia entered the town, shooting at the Tuzantla-based faction. [3]
Methodology. The National Institute of Statistic and Geography released information of homicides for the 32 federal states of Mexico. In the year 2011 there were 27,199 homicides in Mexico. The state of Chihuahua ranked number one with the most homicides in the country, the least was Baja California Sur. For Mexico there were 24 homicides for ...
Crime is one of the most urgent concerns facing Mexico, as Mexican drug trafficking rings play a major role in the flow of cocaine, methamphetamine, fentanyl, heroin, and marijuana transiting between Latin America and the United States. Drug trafficking has led to corruption, which has had a deleterious effect on Mexico's Federal Representative ...
Michoacán is located in western Mexico, and has a stretch of coastline on the Pacific Ocean to the southwest. It is bordered by the states of Colima and Jalisco to the west and northwest, Guanajuato to the north, Querétaro to the northeast, the State of México to the east, and Guerrero to the southeast.
The following 50 cities have the highest homicide rates in the world of all cities not at war, with a population of at least 300,000 people. [1] This is based on 2022 data from El Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y la Justicia Penal (The Citizen Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice), an advocacy group from Mexico City.
According to Alma Guillermoprieto of The New Yorker magazine, [23] Stefanie Eschenbacher of Reuters news service, [24] and a number of other sources, [25] [26] tens of thousands of people in Mexico have gone missing since 2006, a problem that started with a wave of violence unleashed by the "War on Drugs" declared by President Felipe Calderón and his mobilising of the Mexican armed forces to ...