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
Eight people are killed in a shooting between two criminal groups in Tuzantla, Michoacán, Mexico. 2022-08-24
Six people are killed and eight others are wounded in a mass shooting at a party in León, Guanajuato, Mexico. 2022-07-10
Aristóteles Sandoval, former Governor of Jalisco, Mexico, is killed in an attack in Puerto Vallarta. Current Governor Enrique Alfaro Ramírez said that Sandoval was the victim of a "direct attack". 2020-12-18
Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, Mexico's minister of defence during the Peña Nieto administration, is arrested in the United States on drugs charges. 2020-10-15
Mexican officials report the discovery of the remains of at least 166 people in a mass grave in Veracruz. 2018-09-6
Mexican Drug War: 132 inmates escape from a prison in the city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, directly across the U.S-Mexico border with Eagle Pass, Texas, by digging a tunnel underground. The authorities have yet to determine which drug gang was responsible for the jailbreak. 2012-09-18
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: 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