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By the accounting of Lloyd's of London, the reported number of people killed was about 252, although many estimate that the catastrophe actually caused at least 1,000 deaths. [2] About 500 to 600 people were missing, [2] nearly 500 were injured and 15,000 were left homeless. The estimated monetary damage ranges between $300 million and $3 billion.
Eight people were killed in the city of Tuzantla, Michoacán, in a firefight between rival factions of La Familia Michoacana: Yecapixtla Shooting September 1, 2022 Yecapixtla, Morelos: 5 Five people including a former mayor, are killed and several others are injured after a mass shooting at a soccer field in Yecapixtla, Morelos. [171] [172]
The Acteal massacre was a massacre of 45 people attending a prayer meeting of Catholic indigenous townspeople, including a number of children and pregnant women, who were members of the pacifist group Las Abejas ("The Bees"), in the small village of Acteal in the municipality of Chenalhó, in the Mexican state of Chiapas.
Kilroy was one of the 60 people who had disappeared in Matamoros in the first three months of 1989. However, his case drew more attention in the U.S. because his uncle, Ken Kilroy, worked at the United States Customs Service in Los Angeles. [38] [39] When the news reached his uncle, a police task force was created in Brownsville to search for ...
On 17 May Querétaro fell and Maximilian was taken prisoner and the 15,000 troops of General Mariano Escobedo were redirected to assist in the siege of the capital. [5] On 23 May, Porfirio Díaz tightened the ring around the city and advanced to Tacubaya and was confronted by the French guerrillas at Belén on 30 May [9]: 243, 269 who held them back until 9 June when they were called to ...
A mass grave discovered last December in a suburb of Guadalajara with dozens of bags of dismembered body parts contained the remains of 24 people, Mexican authorities said Sunday.. Six of them ...
Authorities in Mexico said Wednesday they have largely confirmed the contents of a grisly drug cartel video showing gunmen shooting, kicking and burning the corpses of their enemies. In a country ...
Jaime Jorge Zapata (May 7, 1978 – February 15, 2011) was an Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent who was ambushed and murdered by the Mexican criminal group Los Zetas in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. [2]