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Female officials and their family members have been murdered in the drug war. [47] [48] [49] Female police and military officers, as well as federal agents [20] and their family members [50] [51] [52] have been murdered because of their occupation and or anti-cartel efforts.
Since Mexico fought the war on its home territory, a traditional support system for troops were women, known as soldaderas. They did not participate in conventional fighting on battlefields, but some soldaderas joined the battle alongside the men. These women were involved in fighting during the defense of Mexico City and Monterrey.
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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]
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.
In this photo provided by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Mexican drug trafficker Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán arrives at Long Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma, N.Y., after being ...
For the first time in many years, the Mexican State was limited in its actions—and even surpassed—by the criminal organizations. [11] The Sinaloa Cartel stood to its firm intention to become the "hegemonic drug trafficking organization in Mexico." [12] And to do so, it had to control the cities along the U.S.-Mexico border. Back in the ...
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