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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]
The kidnapped victims were forced to fight to the death with other victims. [44] Men were given knives, hammers and machetes, and were ordered at gunpoint to fight for their lives like a "gladiator-style contest." The winners were ordered to go on suicide missions and shoot at rival drug cartel members elsewhere. [44]
"The Mexican Mormon War" (documentary on the Mormon vigilante militia fighting a drug cartel in Chihuahua). Vice.com. 2012. Bennion, Janet (2012). "The Church of the Firstborn of the 'Fulness' of Times (The LeBarons)". Polygamy in Primetime: Media, Gender, and Politics in Mormon Fundamentalism. Brandeis University Press. pp. 43– 50.
Chapultepec, Mexico City: 50 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
Joselyn Alejandra Niño (died on 13 April 2015), commonly referred to by her alias La Flaca (English: The Skinny One), was a Mexican suspected assassin of the Gulf Cartel, a criminal group based in Tamaulipas, Mexico. She gained popularity on social media on 5 January 2015, when an anonymous person uploaded a picture of her posing with a ...
A Mexican drug cartel has blamed five rogue members for the deadly kidnapping of four Americans in Matamoros. The Gulf cartel’s Scorpion faction made the claims in a letter obtained by the ...
The bodies of 15 people were recovered from pits in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas which has been plagued by drug cartel violence.. In a post on X, Chiapas State Gov. Eduardo Ramirez ...
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 ...