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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] is an ongoing asymmetric [31] [32] armed conflict between the Mexican government and various drug trafficking syndicates.
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.
Drug-war related murders in Mexico, 2006–2011. The United States is a lucrative market for illegal drugs . The United Nations estimates that nearly 90% of cocaine sold in the United States originates in South America and is smuggled through Mexico. [ 23 ]
Since Mexico launched its controversial anti-drug operation in 2006, it has recorded more than 450,000 murders and tens of thousands of people have gone missing, according to official figures.
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]
“His role in ramping up the war on drugs in Mexico from 2006 to a whole new level can’t be overstated”, says Falko Ernst, an independent drug war and security expert in Mexico.
The military controls the Mexico City airport, customs points of entry, the northern and the southern border. They have a very ubiquitous presence in Mexican politics. The process of ...
Rafael Aguilar Guajardo (1950 – 12 April 1993) [1] was a Mexican drug lord, federal police commander of the Dirección Federal de Seguridad (DFS) in Mexico, [2] and one of the Juárez Cartel co-founders.