Six people are killed in a shootout between drug cartel gunmen in Boquilla del Carmen, Zacatecas, Mexico. Police and soldiers also find two people wounded, as well as one armed suspect and guns and a grenade. 2023-12-12
The Mexican Army says that drug cartels have increased usage of improvised explosive devices, with 42 soldiers, police and suspects wounded this year. 2023-08-22
A journalist for the Expreso newspaper is killed and his daughter is critically wounded by gunmen in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The victim is the 12th journalist murdered in Mexico this year. 2022-06-29
Twenty people are killed and four more are injured in a mass shooting at an illegal cockfighting pit in Las Tinajas, Michoacán, Mexico. 2022-03-28
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
Mexican Drug War: The United States freezes the assets of three Belize-based associates of Mexico's top drug lord, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán. 2012-08-7
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. 2012-05-13
Mexico's federal police capture a man who was allegedly the top hitman for the Knights Templar drug cartel. 2011-07-13