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Crime is one of the most urgent concerns facing Mexico, as Mexican drug trafficking rings play a major role in the flow of cocaine, methamphetamine, fentanyl, heroin, and marijuana transiting between Latin America and the United States.
The National Institute of Statistic and Geography released information of homicides for the 32 federal states of Mexico. In the year 2011 there were 27,199 homicides in Mexico. The state of Chihuahua ranked number one with the most homicides in the country, the least was Baja California Sur. For Mexico there were 24 homicides for every 100,000 ...
Monterrey, Nuevo León: 3 By Los Zetas: San Fernando massacre: April 6, 2011 San Fernando, Tamaulipas 193 Gruesome murder by Los Zetas of 193 travelers using barbaric, gladiator style tactics. Ruiz massacre: May 25, 2011 Ruiz, Nayarit: 29 3 wounded. One of the most violent clashes between criminal organizations in Mexico between Sinaloa Cartel ...
MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) -The mutilated corpses and dismembered body parts of 12 people were dumped in seven locations across the metropolitan area of the Mexican city of Monterrey on Tuesday ...
Luis Ruiz (ca. 1991 – 25 March 2011) was a student and working journalist who had traveled from Monclova, Coahuila, to Monterrey for an interview with Cerda. He became an innocent bystander when he was with the target of a drug cartel murder.
The city of Monterrey was long been a bastion of the PAN, and the local business community has been "livid" about the violence in their city. Surveys showed that voters thought that the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled Mexico uninterruptedly from 1929 to 2000, is likely to control and put down the violence. Its 71-year rule ...
On August 25, 2011, members of the drug cartel Los Zetas set a casino on fire in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, killing 52 people. [1] [2]The arson attack left over a dozen injured, and over 35 trapped for several hours.
On 10 February 2016, a prison riot broke out at the Topo Chico prison near Monterrey, in northern Mexico. [5] 49 inmates were killed during the riot and ensuing fire.The riot was the most deadly in Mexican penal history, surpassing the death toll of the 2012 Apodaca prison riot. [6]