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Female officials and their family members have been murdered in the drug war. [47] [48] [49] Female police and military officers, as well as federal agents [20] and their family members [50] [51] [52] have been murdered because of their occupation and or anti-cartel efforts.
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 ...
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50 surrendered Irish volunteers who fought as part of the Mexican Army against the United States in the Mexican–American War, collectively known as Saint Patrick's battalion were killed by the U.S. Army. Massacre at Janos: March 5, 1851 Janos, Chihuahua Unknown Crabb massacre: April 1–8, 1857 Caborca, Sonora: 84
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Since Mexico fought the war on its home territory, a traditional support system for troops were women, known as soldaderas. They did not participate in conventional fighting on battlefields, but some soldaderas joined the battle alongside the men. These women were involved in fighting during the defense of Mexico City and Monterrey.
March 23 - Mexican authorities publish a List of Mexico's 37 most-wanted drug lords; March 25 – A Mexican Special Forces Unit captures one of Mexico's most-wanted drug smugglers, Héctor Huerta Ríos. [81] March 26 – A US Marshal, Vincent Bustamante who was the subject of an arrest warrant, is found dead in Ciudad Juárez. [82]
Mexican organized-crime groups often leave bodies in public places as a warning to rivals. [1] Most of the 2011–2012 massacres were committed by the rival Sinaloa and Los Zetas cartels throughout Mexico. [2] The killings were described as "the latest salvo in a gruesome game of tit-for-tat in fighting" by Mexican drug cartels. [3]