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A native of San Luis Potosí, [6] Blancornelas began his career as a journalist for El Sol de San Luis in April 1955, working as a sportswriter. [5] [7] In 1960, he moved to Tijuana, Baja California, where he became active in reporting on corruption and the drug trade. [5]
On 28 January, army personnel from the Army's 5th special forces battalion and 2nd Motorized Cavalry Regiment succeeded in the arrest of Alfredo Araujo Avila a.k.a. El Popeye in Tijuana. Alfredo Avila is known to be one of the most active assassins from the 1980s to the early 1990s of the Tijuana Cartel in the states of Sinaloa and Baja ...
There are several Mexican-folk ballads (narco-corridos) that narrate the Tijuana cartel exploits. A fictional "Tijuana cartel" headed by a character named Obregon was featured battling a fictional "Juarez cartel" in the 2000 motion picture Traffic. The cartel was portrayed as the Avendanos brothers in Univision's Netflix series El Chapo.
Things appeared to return back to normal as the hours-long traffic to go through border checkpoints to the United States were back.
One teacher confessed to have seen on a regular basis men in cars with assault rifles sticking out the windows, just outside school grounds. [257] September 14 – In the small town of Juchipila in the state of Zacatecas, over 80 gunmen—presumably from the Gulf Cartel—took control of the town, its jail, and its city hall for over five hours ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador thanked Guatemala on Friday for helping the nearly 600 Mexicans who have crossed into Guatemala to escape drug cartel violence ...
The mayor of the violent border city Tijuana in northern Mexico, Montserrat Caballero, has moved into military barracks for her safety after she received threats, the president said on Tuesday.
On November 7, 2011, Juan Francisco Sillas Rocha, nicknamed El Sillas and La Rueda, was captured by the Mexican Army in the border city of Tijuana. [10] He was the second-in-command in the Tijuana cartel, and considered by Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional as "one of the most violent" drug traffickers in Mexico, responsible for a number of murders. [11]