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
Four people are killed during clashes at the Pharr–Reynosa International Bridge, on the Mexico–United States border, between police and suspected cartel members. 2023-05-10
Twelve people are killed and three are injured in a mass shooting at a bar in Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico. 2022-10-15
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
Guanajuato state officials announce that Mexican security forces captured former Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel leader José Antonio Yépez Ortiz alongside five other people. 2020-08-2
A PRI-PVEM mayoral candidate in the city of Chilapa de Álvarez, Guerrero, is assassinated. 2015-05-1
Mexican Drug War: The Mexican Army kills Manuel Torres Félix, one of the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel. 2012-10-13
Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez, the supreme leader of the drug trafficking organization known as the Gulf Cartel and one of the most-wanted drug lords in Mexico, is arrested in the state of Tamaulipas. 2012-09-13
Mexican Drug War: The Mexican newspaper "El Mañana" from the northern city of Nuevo Laredo will stop reporting on Mexico's drug-related violence after a second grenade attack at its installations. 2012-07-11
Mexican Drug War: Alleged drug traffickers shoot and kill 3 policemen who were on an anti-narcotics operative inside the Mexico City International Airport. The assassins were wearing law enforcement uniforms, although the Mexican authorities said that the cartel members sometimes wear false uniforms. No suspects have been arrested. 2012-06-25