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Notable criminally-active gangs in Mexico include: 14K Triad; 18th Street Gang, a.k.a. Mara 18; Barrio Azteca, a.k.a. Los Aztecas; Caborca Cartel; Cártel de Tláhuac Cártel del Noreste [1] Fuerza Anti-Unión Guerreros Unidos; Gulf Cartel [2] Grupo Delta [3] [4] Grupo Elite [5] Grupo Guerrero [6] Grupo X [7] Los Balcanes. Grupo Blanco; Los ...
The 2011 Durango massacres were a series of mass murders that occurred in 2011. [1] [2] According to El Universal and Yahoo!News, at least 340 bodies have been found in mass graves around the city of Durango as of February 2012; [3] [4] These mass graves are the first of their kind in the state of Durango and third of their kind in Mexico.
The journalists in Durango said they were threatened by the drug cartels and the state government. Both cartels used publicity contracts and instructed owners of media companies not publicize negative news about them. [8] As Mexico tried to go after the drug traffickers, the violence escalated in Durango and other areas of the country.
Mexico’s drug cartels and gangs appear to be playing a wider role in Sunday’s elections that will determine the presidency, nine governorships and about 19,000 mayorships and other local posts.
Raised on the east side of Oxnard, Madrigal came up in the Colonia Chiques gang before being inducted into the Mexican Mafia in the early 2000s, said Leo Duarte, a retired state prisons official ...
In the latest Mexican cartel violence, 19 bodies were found around a dump truck in Chiapas state, officials say, part of a gang war for drug and migrant trafficking routes.
Mexico is a major tourist destination, with 42 million people traveling there in 2018; [67] US citizens alone usually make up 15–16 million annually. [68] Because cartel-related violence in Mexico is highly geographically limited, the US State department has issued "do not travel" advisories for only five states as of November 2021: Colima ...
During its initial years, the gang's aim was street robbery to collect funds to liberate prisoners in jail. [19] Today, the gang has expanded into a large criminal gang with presence in both the United States and Mexico, besetting by drug trafficking and human smuggling. In Ciudad Juárez, however, the gang is known as Los Aztecas.