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The cartel conflict may have played a role in the 2019 ambush slayings of nine U.S.-Mexican dual citizens in a rural area relatively near Onavas. The three women and six children from the extended Langford, LeBaron and Miller families were ambushed and slain by suspected drug gang assassins on Nov. 4, 2019.In October 2020 an attack by a criminal group in the same area on the local city hall left 20 dead, including the mayor and his father.. Guerrero, one of the most violent and impoverished states ...Apr 26, 2021 · Published 12:35 PM PDT, April 26, 2021. CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — A raging gun battle between rival Mexican drug gangs near the U.S. border left eight people dead and a string of burned-out armored trucks littering a roadway. Residents of the northern border state of Tamaulipas said Monday the gun battles occurred Saturday and continued ... The community of Helidoro Castillo, on the fringes of Tlacotepec, is caught in an escalating war between the La Familia Michoacana and the Jalisco New Generation cartels. Velázquez said drone attacks by the cartels and …Welcome to Celaya, arguably the most dangerous place, per capita, to be a cop in North America. At least 34 police officers have been killed in this city of 500,000 people in the last three years. In Guanajuato state, its population just over 6 million, more police were shot to death in 2023 — about 60 — than in all of the United States.In the past three years, these gangs have formed alliances with Mexican drug cartels, which have turned Ecuador into the world’s biggest exporter of cocaine. The attorney general, Diana Salazar, in 2019. José Jácome (EFE) The Ecuadorian government has tried to convey that it is winning the war on crime.Next to chilaquiles, nothing gets us going in the morning (or cures a hangover) like this vegetarian Mexican breakfast sandwich. A fried egg with a gloriously runny yolk mingles wi...Luis Nájera (LN): It was a criminal alliance responsible for smuggling cocaine to Canada and allegedly to Europe from the Andean region, in partnership with a Mexican drug organization, allegedly the Sinaloa Cartel. We call it an alliance because this was a new model of criminal association in Canada. Until 2013, the underworld was pretty ...Many Mexican traditions go back for hundreds of years. Read about Mexican traditional food, clothing, music and more at HowStuffWorks. Advertisement Mexico is home to some of the o...Updated 2:14 PM PDT, March 22, 2024. MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said Friday he won’t fight Mexican drug cartels on U.S. orders, in the clearest explanation yet of his refusal to confront the gangs. Over the years, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has laid out various justifications for his “hugs, not bullets” policy ...The gang truce in Querétaro was modeled after a similar pact among dozens of gangs in Monterrey, Mexico’s third largest city, secured in 2016. In both cases, a nonprofit called Nacidos Para ...DISTURBING video shows Mexican cartel hitmen lining up 20 rival gangsters in a forest before executing them one by one. It was released as a warning on social media by Los Tlacos, who claimed they were cleaning up the city after the other mob robbed and killed innocent civilians.Low budget narco cinema has a quick production turnaround, and movies are hastily shot to mirror news stories in the sensationalist press. The movie El Pozolero (Alfonso O. Lara, 2009), for example, tells the real-life story of a man hired by the cartels to dissolve hundreds of corpses in acid, a case that was eagerly followed by the rating …Jun 17, 2022 · Mexican narcos’ fascination with exotic animals has been on display this week after a spider monkey dressed up as a drug gang mascot was killed in a shootout, a 200kg tiger wandered the streets ... Mexican security forces patrolled a road after an ambush by cartel hitmen in el Aguaje last year. ... More than half of the overall reported cases were of young people between 15 and 34 years old ...Cartel commandos are attacking rival gangs and security forces with armed drones, enhancing their combat power. We can clearly track their technological and tactical progress on this front. It is a part of the increased tactical and operational sophistication of criminal groups in Mexico’s crime wars.This violent conflict goes well beyond typical …Lately, the bipolar war between the two Mexican cartels has spread to other parts of Latin America, including, but not exclusively, to the Northern Triangle, Nicaragua, Ecuador, and Peru, as well ...1 of 18 | . Soldiers patrol near the hamlet Plaza Vieja, in the Michoacan state of Mexico, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. The Mexican army has largely stopped fighting drug cartels here, instead ordering soldiers to guard the dividing lines between gang territories so they won’t invade each other’s turf — and turn a blind eye to the cartels’ illegal …A cartel war has transformed once-tranquil Guanajuato into one of Mexico’s deadliest states. Relatives of victims wait in anguish for news after a shooting July 1 at a …Mexico's war on cartels has created 400 new gangs that are taking on the police and cartels that are left. Luis Chaparro. Oct 13, 2021, 5:21 AM PDT. A bullet-riddled wall bearing the...

Updated 10:28 AM PDT, January 3, 2024. MEXICO CITY (AP) — A cartel in the embattled central Mexico state of Michoacan set up its own makeshift internet antennas and told locals they had to pay to use its Wi-Fi service or they would be killed, state prosecutors said Wednesday. Dubbed “narco-antennas” by local media, the cartel’s system ...CADEREYTA, Mexico (AP) — Authorities struggled Monday to identify 49 bodies without heads, hands or feet to gain clues into the latest in a series of massacres from an escalating war between Mexico's two dominant drug cartels, with increasing evidence that innocents are being pulled into the bloodba.In October 2020 an attack by a criminal group in the same area on the local city hall left 20 dead, including the mayor and his father.. Guerrero, one of the most violent and impoverished states ...Published 2:05 PM PDT, March 1, 2022. MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities said Tuesday a suspected massacre of about a dozen men seen lined up against a wall by …US Customs and Border Protection officers at the Nogales Commercial Facility seized nearly $4.6 million in fentanyl and methamphetamine totaling close to 650 pounds Jan. 26, 2019, from a Mexican national when he attempted to enter the United States through the Port of Nogales. The seizure is the largest seizure of fentanyl in CBP history.

Lately, the bipolar war between the two Mexican cartels has spread to other parts of Latin America, including, but not exclusively, to the Northern Triangle, Nicaragua, Ecuador, and Peru, as well ...This thesis examines the history of Mexican cartel influence- highlighting the problems in government, society and culture- to understand why and how cartel influence has spread. Authorities would benefit to use this knowledge to forge a more holistic approach in their war against Mexican cartels, as their current tactics lack much efficacy ...Dec 13, 2023 · MEXICO CITY (AP) — Six people have been killed in a shootout between drug cartel gunmen in the northern Mexico state of Zacatecas, authorities said late Tuesday. The Zacatecas state security council said the bodies were found in a rural area known as Boquilla del Carmen. It said the dead appeared to belong to one of the gangs but did not ... …

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