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Six people are killed and two others are injured in a shootout between rival drug cartels in Villanueva, Zacatecas. After the encounter, authorities arrest a suspect and decommissions five assault rifles, grenades and ammunition.
2023-12-13

Fourteen police employees are kidnapped by armed men in Chiapas, Mexico, while travelling on the 190 motorway between Ocozocoautla and Tuxtla Gutiérrez.
2023-06-27

Ten prison officers and four inmates are killed in an armed attack on a prison in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, in which 24 prisoners escaped.
2023-01-1

Ex-leader of the Guadalajara Cartel Rafael Caro Quintero is captured by the Mexican Navy in Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico.
2022-07-15

A Mexican court sentences Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, a former leader of the Juárez drug cartel, to 28 years in prison on the charges of organized crime and drug trafficking.
2021-09-14

Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, Mexico's minister of defence during the Peña Nieto administration, is arrested in the United States on drugs charges.
2020-10-15

Mexican Drug War: 132 inmates escape from a prison in the city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, directly across the U.S-Mexico border with Eagle Pass, Texas, by digging a tunnel underground. The authorities have yet to determine which drug gang was responsible for the jailbreak.
2012-09-18

A gunbattle breaks out near Choix, Sinaloa, after alleged drug traffickers ambushed and killed seven police officers; upon the aggression, the officers gunned down four cartel members. The area is a stronghold of the Sinaloa Cartel, a powerful drug trafficking organization.
2012-07-9

Twenty-one people are killed in the town of Ciudad Juarez in an ongoing war between the Juárez Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel.
2011-07-13