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The Mexican drug war (also known as the Mexican war on drugs; Spanish: Guerra contra el narcotráfico en México, shortened to and commonly known inside Mexico as the war against the narco; Spanish: Guerra contra el narco) [30], known also as Calderón's war [31] is an ongoing asymmetric [32] [33] armed conflict between the Mexican government ...
In December 2018, incoming President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pledged to bring down gang-fueled violence and on January 30, 2019, he declared the end of the Mexican war on drugs. [4] but homicides hit a record level in 2019 with 34,600 murders and continued to climb even during the coronavirus lockdown. [3]
In 2011 and 2012, during the Mexican drug war, hundreds of people were killed in massacres by rival drug cartels who were fighting for power and territory. These organized-crime syndicates were grappling for control over the drug corridors to the United States, the drug markets in local cities, extortion rackets, and human smuggling.
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 ...
Mexican Federal Highway 101, which extends from the border city of Matamoros, to the capital of the state, Ciudad Victoria, is known by local residents as the "Highway of Death." [ 46 ] Those who traveled through this highway in 2010 and 2011 used to see "burned vehicles, bullet-shot trucks on the side of the road, and dead bodies, often ...
Rising murder rates in Mexico are causing a dramatic, measurable decline in national life expectancy, according to a new study. The drug war is reducing the life expectancy in Mexico Skip to main ...
Current and ex-U.S. officials say the relationship between War allies Mexico and the U.S. has deteriorated badly just as the deadly threat of fentanyl grows.
On January 13, the Mexican Secretary of the Interior Adán Augusto López Hernández declared that "order has been reestablished" in Sinaloa. [ 4 ] According to official reports, ten soldiers, a police officer and 19 alleged members of the Sinaloa Cartel were killed. [ 2 ]