By MARK LORENZANA Six people were killed and at least eight more were injured after armed men stormed a family party in the early-morning hours of Sunday, July 10, in León, the most populous city of the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, local authorities reported. Individuals on board two motorcycles arrived, started shooting and then promptly fled the scene. Among
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XINHUA At least 20 people are dead after what appeared to be a cartel-war shootout in the town of Las Tinajas, Michoacán, on Sunday, March 27, according to that central Mexican state’s Attorney General’s Office. The shootout took place late Sunday night at a clandestine cockfight (palenque), where police later discovered the lifeless remains of 16 men and three women (another
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After a five-month downward trend in massacres in Mexico, June closed with 10 mass executions nationwide, making it the worst month of the year for attacks of this kind, according to government statistics. Massacres, defined by the government as shootings in which five or more people die during a single violent event, surged in
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