Gunmen ambush a police convoy in Coatepec Harinas, State of Mexico, killing eight police officers and five prosecution investigators. It is the deadliest attack on law enforcement in the country since October 2019. The National Guard has been deployed to search for the killers. 2021-03-18
Authorities in the Mexican state of Guanajuato discover a mass grave containing 59 bodies. 2020-10-29
Fourteen people are killed in 36 hours in Cancún, Mexico, in the worst spate of violence in the city since 2004. 2018-04-11
Three Mexican Army soldiers die as gunfire downs a helicopter in the state of Jalisco. Ten soldiers and two Federal Police officers are injured. 2015-05-1
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
Three journalists are killed and their bodies dumped in plastic bags in a canal in Boca del Río in the Mexican state of Veracruz, where the rival criminal groups of Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel are fighting for territorial control. 2012-05-4