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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]
Following the cartel's fragmentation in late 2010 and early 2011, the La Familia Cartel under Méndez Vargas fought the Knights Templar Cartel but on June 21, 2011, Méndez Vargas was arrested by Mexican authorities [6] and in mid-2011 the attorney general in Mexico (PGR) stated that La Familia Cartel had been "exterminated", [206] leaving only ...
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]
MEXICO CITY — Body parts found inside freezers, bodies hanging from bridges, young men killing each other under cartel orders. Mexico is no stranger to displays of brutality put on by the nation ...
A string of gruesome killings has thrust Mexico's security crisis into the spotlight ... Sheinbaum's challenge at the national level, where cartels are more embedded than in Mexico City, has been ...
Gunmen suspected of being drug cartel members ambushed three vehicles occupied by Mormon U.S.-Mexican dual citizens on a highway in Sonora, killing nine, including six children. The cars and the burned bodies of the victims were found by the police. [136] 2019 Villa Unión shootout: November 30, 2019
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 ...
Mexican organized-crime groups often leave bodies in public places as a warning to rivals. [1] Most of the 2011–2012 massacres were committed by the rival Sinaloa and Los Zetas cartels throughout Mexico. [2] The killings were described as "the latest salvo in a gruesome game of tit-for-tat in fighting" by Mexican drug cartels. [3]