July 18, 2010 Torreon, Coahuila
Mexican authorities found more than 20 bodies in cars left at a major traffic intersection in the western city of Guadalajara, local media and officials said on Thursday.
Reuters
Below are some of the worst attacks since President Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006 and declared war on powerful drug cartels. More than 45,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence since then.
* Sept 15, 2008 - Suspected members of the Zetas drug gang tossed grenades into a crowd celebrating Mexico's independence day in the western city of Morelia, killing eight people and wounding more than 100.
* Jan 31, 2010 - Suspected cartel assailants killed 13 high school students and two adults at a party in Ciudad Juarez across from El Paso, Texas.
* March 13 - Hitmen killed three people linked to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez in March, provoking "outrage" from U.S. President Barack Obama.
* June 28 - Suspected cartel gunmen shot and killed a popular gubernatorial candidate in the northern state of Tamaulipas in the worst cartel attack on a politician to date. Rodolfo Torre, 46, and four aides from the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, were ambushed on their way to a campaign event for the July 4 state election.
* July 18 - Gunmen burst into a birthday party in the northern city of Torreon, using automatic weapons to kill 17 party-goers and wound 18 others. Mexican authorities said later those responsible were incarcerated cartel hitmen let out of jail by corrupt officials. The killers allegedly borrowed weapons and vehicles from prison guards and later returned to their cells.
* July 24 - Police unearthed 51 bodies in a grave outside Mexico's business capital, Monterrey, in northern Mexico over several days. Some corpses were burned beyond recognition.
* Aug 25 - Marines found the bodies of 58 men and 14 women at a ranch near the Gulf of Mexico in Tamaulipas state, 90 miles from the Texas border, after a firefight with drug hitmen in which three gunmen and a marine died.
* April, 2011 - Officials unearthed the first of what turned out to be more than 450 bodies buried in mass graves in the northern states of Durango and Tamaulipas.
* Aug 20 - Five headless bodies were found in Acapulco, taking the number of people killed in the popular Pacific resort to at least 25 in that one week.
* Aug 25 - Masked gunmen torch a casino in Monterrey, killing 52 people, most of them women. The attack takes less than three minutes.
* Sept 20 - Thirty-five bodies are found abandoned in two trucks on an underpass in the eastern Gulf city of Veracruz, which had been largely untouched by the violence.
* Oct 6 - Mexican security forces find 32 bodies at several locations around Veracruz, just two days after the government unveiled a plan to bolster security in Veracruz state.
* Nov 24 - More than 20 bodies are found in cars in Mexico's second city, Guadalajara, a day after the burned bodies of 16 people are found in the home state of the country's powerful drug lord, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman.
Morelia, Michoacan Sept. 15, 2008
Villas Salvarcar, Juarez Jan. 31, 2010
Gunmen kill Rodolfo Torre, Tamaulipas, June 28, 2010
72 Immigrants massacred, Tamaulipas August 25, 2010
Zetas in Coahuila became entrepreneurs when Moreira was governor.
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Suspected of being Zetas????, in Morelia(the capital of the state of Michoacan????? Haha everyones knows that that grenade was thrown by La Famila Michiocana.
ReplyDeleteSince when is there Zetas in Michioacan??,it was a simple mistake dont think im criticizing you guys,you guys have an impressive/informative site,no one can take that away from you guys.Also I believe that the murder of the fallen Marines, Family should be included in this list,because it was a direct challenge to Felipe Calderon,in other words showing/demostrating to the world how Felipe Calderon cant even guarantee his people/soldiers OR their families SAFETY/SECURITY.
There where zetas operating in Michoacan before the Familia upring alot where killed or kicked out of the state , most turned Familia tho .
ReplyDelete@12:43 don't be ignorant la famila was a part of los zetas till they split and kicked them all out of Michoacan
ReplyDeleteIn 2008 zetas where still fighting LFM and 4 zetas where arested in apatzingan for the attack
ReplyDeleteZetas got kicked out by Los Michoacanos , they used to run the state
ReplyDeleteWhat is the point? You do not have to convince anyone that Mexico is a crime ridden country that is probably going to stay that way. Weak govt,weak public support for order, Dope gangs with public support. NOW WHAT?
ReplyDeleteTime for Mexico to step up to the plate. Only Mexicans can save Mexico.
ReplyDeleteTrue they got ran the hell out or Michoacan and don't wanna come back
ReplyDeleteMexico better do something before the US decides to "save" them just like Iraq, Afghanistan and a lot of African nations. It's just a matter of time before US troops swoop in to "save the day"....
ReplyDeleteWell I I can say is, it is what it is and there is not going to be a bit of change in Mexico for every criminal murdered there is several joining the crime and violence etc. Calderon only made it worst than what it was..,
ReplyDeleteTo 4:19 us just can't go and save Mexico from violence and crime there are alot of unknown groups/organizations armed up to teeth that will face us troops up also part of SEDENA and other armies do not run by the book and we know tha the us is not going to go for a war to a country that shares borther with then it would b a real disaster don't you think.
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