The army arrests Ovidio Guzmán López, the son of incarcerated drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, in Culiacán, Sinaloa. The arrest is followed by state-wide unrest, with many schools and airports closed. Ten soldiers and 19 gang members are killed during the unrest. 2023-01-5
Armed cartel members break into a prison in Tula, Hidalgo using vehicles, detonating several car bombs. Nine inmates are freed, including a local drug lord. Two law enforcement officers are injured. 2021-12-1
Nineteen people are found dead in two vehicles in Camargo, Tamaulipas, near the Mexico–United States border. The victims, who were likely undocumented migrants, were shot and then set on fire. 2021-01-25
A gunfight between La Línea gang members and a rival cartel in Madera Municipality, Chihuahua, leaves at least 14 people dead. 2017-07-5
An unknown gunman shoots and kills veteran journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas, who is noted for his investigative reporting on Mexico's war on drugs, in Culiacán, Sinaloa. 2017-05-15
A PRI-PVEM mayoral candidate in the city of Chilapa de Álvarez, Guerrero, is assassinated. 2015-05-1
Gunfire and roadblocks are reported in the city of Reynosa on the border with the US after local leader "El Gafe" of the Gulf Cartel is arrested. 2015-04-17
The Mexican Army captures Miguel Treviño Morales, the supreme leader of Los Zetas drug cartel. 2013-07-15
Two photographers are tortured and killed execution-style in the state of Michoacán. Their bodies were found inside the trunk of a car with a bullet through their heads. 2012-08-19