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The 2023 Sinaloa unrest began on January 5, 2023, following the arrest of Ovidio Guzmán, son of jailed drug lord Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, sparking a wave of violence in the state of Sinaloa. [2] In retaliation for the arrest of Ovidio Guzmán, cartel members blocked highways with burning vehicles and began attacks against the armed forces. [3]
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican security forces said on Wednesday they had made the largest fentanyl seizure in the country's history, impounding 1,100 kilograms of the synthetic opioid in the ...
Some 53 people have been killed and 51 others are missing in Mexico's western Sinaloa state since rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel began clashing on Sept 9, local authorities said on Friday ...
On December 11, 2006, newly elected President Felipe Calderón, from the PAN party, dispatched 6,500 Mexican Army soldiers to Michoacán, his home state, to end drug violence. This action is regarded as the first major deployment of government forces against cartels, and is generally viewed as the starting point of the Mexican drug war. [63]
In the most sensational recent instance, Genaro García Luna, Mexico’s former security chief and the former face of the anti-drug war, was convicted in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn last year ...
The Mexican drug war began in 2006. Ciudad Juárez is a large city in Chihuahua which is next to the United States border, opposite El Paso in Texas. [1] Mexican drug cartels have carried out many attacks in Juárez, including a prison riot in March 2009, an attack on a rehab center in September 2009 and a massacre in January 2010.
Mexico's army appears to be raiding only a handful of active drug labs every month, despite U.S. pressure to crack down on fentanyl trafficking, with facilities that were already out of use ...
Early in his term, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador declared that the drug war in Mexico was over. He said his government would focus more on reducing homicides than on capturing ...