Growing tension between Mexico’s drug trafficking cartels over the control of Baja California’s lucrative customs operations has caused the rate of violence to explode in border cities like Tijuana
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López Obrador took to his daily morning conference to praise organized crime groups’ respect for public servants, all while violence continues to rise in Mexico
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In just over four years, and with still 17 months to go, the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is on track to be the bloodiest six-year presidential term in the history of Mexico
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The enmeshment of the Mexican Armed Forces in Mexico’s daily violence was also highlighted by the State Department, especially considering the growing number of military human rights abuse reports across the last several years
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Eyewitness testimonies from the crime scene say the killings occurred after seven young people leaving a Nuevo Laredo nightclub ran into a military convoy
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In spite of López Obrador’s controversial implementation of a “hugs, not bullets” policy against cartel violence upon entering office, the Mexican executive’s peace-first approach has not discouraged Mexico’s violent streak in the slightest
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By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Nov. 7, Mexican anti-corruption officials and Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum accused the Morelos Attorney General’s Office of covering up the murder of 27-year-old Ariadna López, whose lifeless body was found on a highway in Morelos last week. López reportedly disappeared from the Mexican capital’s trendy Condesa neighborhood on the evening of Oct. 30 after
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By KELIN DILLON Only weeks after hactivist group Guacamaya revealed to the public that 72 percent of Mexico is under control of organized crime groups, Mexico experienced its most violent month of the year yet, registering 2,481 intentional homicides throughout Oct. 2022. A total of 92 intentional murders were committed on Monday, Oct. 31 alone, says information publicized by Mexico’s
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexico City-based criminal organizations Tepito Union and the Tláhuac Cartel currently control the trafficking of persons for sexual purposes and prostitution on the streets of the country’s capital, revealed a joint report by Mexico’s Secretariat of Citizen Security (SSC) and the Attorney General’s Office (FGR). These groups have allegedly managed to venture into the trafficking of women
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By MARK LORENZANA The plenary session of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, on Wednesday, Oct. 12, approved the reform — jointly initiated by legislators of the centralist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) — to extend the Armed Forces on the streets until 2028 for public-security tasks. There were 339 votes in favor of the
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