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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] is an ongoing asymmetric [31] [32] armed conflict between the Mexican government and various drug trafficking syndicates.
Operation Quintana Roo (Spanish:Operacion Quintana Roo) is an anti-drug trafficking military operation jointly conducted by the Mexican army and navy in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. The operation began in early February 2009 after the death of former Brigadier General Mauro Enrique Tello Quiñónez and two other men.
Pages in category "Battles and operations of the Mexican drug war" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
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 ...
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 ...
Drug-war related murders in Mexico, 2006–2011. The United States is a lucrative market for illegal drugs . The United Nations estimates that nearly 90% of cocaine sold in the United States originates in South America and is smuggled through Mexico. [ 23 ]
Will Grant - Mexico, Central America and Cuba correspondent, in Mexico City October 16, 2024 at 5:07 PM File photo of Genaro García Luna pictured in 2012 [Getty Images]
March 23 - Mexican authorities publish a List of Mexico's 37 most-wanted drug lords; March 25 – A Mexican Special Forces Unit captures one of Mexico's most-wanted drug smugglers, Héctor Huerta Ríos. [81] March 26 – A US Marshal, Vincent Bustamante who was the subject of an arrest warrant, is found dead in Ciudad Juárez. [82]