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Durango massacres: April 2011 Durango, Durango: 340 Various mass graves discovered between April 2011 and February 2012. Monterrey casino attack: August 25, 2011 Monterrey, Nuevo León 52 Drug cartel set a casino on fire Altamira prison brawl: January 4, 2012 Altamira, Tamaulipas 31 Apodaca prison riot: February 19, 2012 Apodaca, Nuevo León 44
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 ...
A total solar eclipse occurs over the states of Sinaloa, Coahuila, Durango, Chihuahua, Colima, and Nayarit, the first total solar eclipse visible from Mexico since 1991. [11] The headquarters of the state government of Guerrero in Chilpancingo is set on fire by demonstrators protesting the Iguala mass kidnapping. [12]
The 2011 San Fernando massacre, also known as the second massacre of San Fernando, [1] was the mass murder of 193 people by Los Zetas drug cartel at La Joya ranch in the municipality of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, in March 2011. [2]
Manuel Fidel Torres Félix (Spanish pronunciation: [xoˈse maˈnwel ˈtores ˈfeliɣs]; 28 February 1958 – 13 October 2012), also known as El M1, EL 14, and/or El Ondeado, was a Mexican drug lord and high-ranking leader of the Sinaloa Cartel.
Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists and among the ones with the highest levels of unsolved crimes against the press. [1] Though the exact figures of those killed are often conflicting, [2] [3] press freedom organizations around the world agree through general consensus that Mexico is among the most dangerous countries on the planet to exercise journalism ...
Map of Mexico with Durango highlighted. Durango is a state in Northwest Mexico that is divided into 39 municipalities. [1] According to the 2020 Mexican census, Durango is the 25th most populous state with 1,832,650 inhabitants, but the 4th largest by land area spanning 123,575.36 square kilometres (47,712.71 sq mi).
Hurricane Orlene was a powerful tropical cyclone that caused minor damage to the Pacific coast of Mexico in October 2022. The cyclone was the sixteenth named storm, ninth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 2022 Pacific hurricane season.