Four police officers are killed in an ambush on a highway near Celaya, Guanajuato. 2024-01-25
The Mexican government says that it has deployed 1,200 more troops to the Mexican state of Michoacán after drug cartel violence has been reported over the weekend. 2023-08-28
Soldiers open fire on a pickup truck carrying unarmed civilians in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, killing five people, sparking protests and riots by local people. 2023-02-26
Edgar Morales Pérez, the mayor-elect of Matehuala, San Luis Potosí, is shot to death by gunmen while riding his vehicle. 2012-08-12
Mexican Drug War: A kidnapped Mexican mayor is found tortured and killed in the state of Oaxaca. 2012-06-28
Mexican Drug War: Armed men beat up and abduct Marcelo Ávila López, a candidate for the municipal presidency of Apaxtla, Guerrero, and politician of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). 2012-06-26
Mexican gunmen dump 35 bodies in the city of Boca del Rio, with at least some of the victims having links to organised crime. 2011-09-20
A Mexican Drug War-related march inspired by the killing of seven people, one of whom was the son of prominent poet and journalist Javier Sicilia, occur in more than 20 Mexican cities, with marchers chanting "No more blood!". 2011-04-7