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On 19 February 2012, at a prison in Apodaca, [74] at least 44 people were killed and 12 injured. [74] Blog del Narco, an anonymous blog documenting the Mexican drug war, reported that the actual death toll might be over 70. [75] The riot involved Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel, which operate in northeastern Mexico. [76]
Count of murders in Mexico's drug conflicts (December 2006 to December 2010) The Mexican attorney general's office has claimed that 9 of 10 victims of the Mexican drug war are members of organized-crime groups, [312] although this figure has been questioned by other sources. [313]
Three others are killed and four injured at a bar in Tulum, Quintana Roo, while four are killed in Salamanca, Guanajuato. [183] [184] 2023 Ciudad Obregón shooting 29 December 2023 Ciudad Obregón, Sonora 8 Eight people are killed and 26 others are injured in a mass shooting at a party in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora. The shooting's target, a cartel ...
The Sinaloa Cartel stood to its firm intention to become the "hegemonic drug trafficking organization in Mexico." [12] And to do so, it had to control the cities along the U.S.-Mexico border. Back in the early 2000s, if a different drug trafficking organization wanted to traffic narcotics through a different corridor, they had to pay a fee to ...
12 December – Six people are killed in a shootout between cartel gunmen in Boquilla del Carmen, Zacatecas. Police and soldiers also find two people wounded, as well as one armed suspect and guns and a grenade. [460] 13 December – Six people are killed and two others are injured in a shootout between rival drug cartels in Villanueva ...
The 2011 Durango massacres were a series of mass murders that occurred in 2011. [1] [2] According to El Universal and Yahoo!News, at least 340 bodies have been found in mass graves around the city of Durango as of February 2012; [3] [4] These mass graves are the first of their kind in the state of Durango and third of their kind in Mexico.
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.
As demonstrated with the killing of Rodolfo Torre Cantú in June 2010, a candidate for the PRI who was running for the state government of Tamaulipas, drug lords are interfering with Mexico's election process. [5] 88 politicians or candidates were killed between September 2020 and the June 2021 Mexican legislative election. [6]