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2020-02-13 Around two dozen heavily armed men dressed in military fatigues storm a court building in El Progreso, north-western Honduras, freeing Alexander Mendoza, a senior leader of the MS-13 gang and killing four police officers. Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández offers a $80,000 reward for information leading to Mendoza's recapture. Honduras

2019-10-18 The Mexican National Guard arrests Ovidio Guzmán López, one of former cartel leader Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's sons, in Culiacán. He is later released after government forces come under intense attack and are overpowered by Sinaloa Cartel gunmen, according to Security Minister Alfonso Durazo. drug cartel

2019-05-18 Five foreign tourists, four of whom were Americans, are killed when their Piper PA-32 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near Honduras shortly after taking off from Roatán island. Honduras

2013-07-15 The Mexican Army captures Miguel Treviño Morales, the supreme leader of Los Zetas drug cartel. drug cartel

2012-05-13 Mexican Drug War: 49 dismembered bodies are discovered by Mexican authorities on Mexican Federal Highway 40. The decapitated and mutilated bodies were dumped on a roadside near the northern city of Monterrey, presumably by members of the powerful Los Zetas drug cartel. drug cartel

2011-01-7 Eight people are killed and three injured following an armed attack on a bus traveling between Catacamas and Juticalpa in eastern Honduras. Honduras

2010-10-30 Gunman opened fire on a group of people on a neighborhood sports field in northern Honduras and killed at least 14. Honduras

2010-10-10 A clash in the north of Honduras kills two policemen and four criminals. Honduras

2010-09-2 The Mexican Army claims to have killed 25 drug cartel gunmen in a clash in Tamaulipas state near the United States border. drug cartel

2010-06-25 13 people have died of dengue fever in Honduras in 2010 as 10,200 others were hit by the disease, the Honduran Health Ministry said. Honduras